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From 'Speculative' To 'Practical' Legal Education: the Decline of the Glasgow Law School, 1801-1830

From 'Speculative' To 'Practical' Legal Education: the Decline of the Glasgow Law School, 1801-1830 331 FROM 'SPECULATIVE' TO 'PRACTICAL' LEGAL EDUCATION: THE DECLINE OF THE GLASGOW LAW SCHOOL, 1801-1830 by JOHN W. CAIRNS (Edinburgh)* A Royal Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges in Scotland was appointed on 23 July 1826. Its members were: the Duke of Gordon; the Duke of Montrose; the Marquis of Huntly; the Earl of Aberdeen; the Earl of Rose- bery ; the Earl of Mansfield; Viscount Melville; Lord Binning; Lord President Hope; Sir William Rae, Lord Advocate; Lord Justice-Clerk Boyle; Chief Baron Sir Samuel Shepherd; William Adam, Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court; John Hope, Solicitor General; George Cranstoun, Dean of the Faculty of Advo- cates ; Dr. Taylor, Moderator of the General Assembly; and Dr. Cook, former Moderator . A supplementary commission of 28 September added to this list the Earl of Lauderdale, Sir Walter Scott, the Rev. Dr. Lee, Henry Home Drum- mond, advocate, and James Moncrieff, advocate2. This was a distinguished body of the great and the good of early-nineteenth-century Scotland. Of these, Lauderdale, Rae, Boyle, Adam, Cranstoun, and Moncrieff had studied at Glas- gow under John Millar, who there had held the regius chair of Civil Law from 1761 to 18013. A special http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit Brill

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331 FROM 'SPECULATIVE' TO 'PRACTICAL' LEGAL EDUCATION: THE DECLINE OF THE GLASGOW LAW SCHOOL, 1801-1830 by JOHN W. CAIRNS (Edinburgh)* A Royal Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges in Scotland was appointed on 23 July 1826. Its members were: the Duke of Gordon; the Duke of Montrose; the Marquis of Huntly; the Earl of Aberdeen; the Earl of Rose- bery ; the Earl of Mansfield; Viscount Melville; Lord Binning; Lord President Hope; Sir William Rae, Lord Advocate; Lord Justice-Clerk Boyle; Chief Baron Sir Samuel Shepherd; William Adam, Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court; John Hope, Solicitor General; George Cranstoun, Dean of the Faculty of Advo- cates ; Dr. Taylor, Moderator of the General Assembly; and Dr. Cook, former Moderator . A supplementary commission of 28 September added to this list the Earl of Lauderdale, Sir Walter Scott, the Rev. Dr. Lee, Henry Home Drum- mond, advocate, and James Moncrieff, advocate2. This was a distinguished body of the great and the good of early-nineteenth-century Scotland. Of these, Lauderdale, Rae, Boyle, Adam, Cranstoun, and Moncrieff had studied at Glas- gow under John Millar, who there had held the regius chair of Civil Law from 1761 to 18013. A special

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The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit – Brill

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