John Erskine, AN INSTITUTE OF THE LAW OF SCOTLAND 1st edn 1773 Edinburgh: Edinburgh Legal Education Trust (www.centreforprivatelaw.ed.ac.uk/monograph_series) 2014. Old Studies in Scots Law, vol 5. cxii+1025pp. ISBN 9780955633263. £30.

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DOI10.3366/elr.2015.0308
Published date01 September 2015
Date01 September 2015
Pages429-430

The Edinburgh Legal Education Trust is an important funding vehicle for legal research and education. Financed ultimately by CPD provision, the Trust is a powerful example of the positive impact that commercial engagement with the profession can have on the academic study and teaching of law. One of the Trust's activities is the publication of books on the law. Its Older Studies in Scots Law series comprises facsimile editions of important Scottish law books with introductions by some of today's leading legal scholars. The volume under review is the fifth to be produced in the series. Previous volumes have also been reviewed for this journal (see (2011) 15 EdinLR 33 and (2014) 18 EdinLR 300).

As is noted in the original advertisement to Erskine's Institute, and as is commented upon in the introduction to this volume, Erskine worked towards completion of his Institute in the final years of his life. As such, it benefited from his focused attention as well as his forty-seven-year career as an advocate and teacher of law. He did not live to see the realisation of his endeavours, so the volume was edited and seen through the press by his son, David. The second and third editions of the Institute (1785; 1793) were enlarged by material not attributable to Erskine. The consequent importance of the first...

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