文档介绍：mune Lectures on European Private Law, 1
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SCOTS LAW AND THE ROAD TO THE NEW MUNE
Hector L. MacQueenProfessor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh. This paper was first presented in lectures at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam on 27 October and 17 November 1997. In revised form it was subsequently presented at the Joint Study Institute of the American Association of Law Librarians, the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians and the Canadian Association of Law Librarians held in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 6 September 1998. I am grateful to all those who attended these presentations for ment and questions.
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When a Scottish es to Utrecht, he thinks at once of his eighteenth-century predecessor, James Boswell, the biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson. Boswell was in a gloomy frame of mind when he arrived in the town to study law at the University in September 1763, and this seems to have quickly turned to depression, as he wrote to Johnson:
J Wain (ed), The Journals of James Boswell 1762-1795 (London, 1991), pp. 82-83. See also his letter to