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PUBLICATIONS

New publications are issued free to members. Those past publications which are still in print may be purchased by members and non members through our sales agents, Avizandum Specialist Law Bookshop, Edinburgh. A full list of the our publications, from 1936 to date, and notes about ordering procedures will be found on the Publications page of the website.

POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

The Society has established a scholarship to promote postgraduate research in the history of Scots law, leading to the degree of PhD or D.Phil. The current award is to a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. It is likely that another award will be made for the start of the 2009/2010 academic year. Enquiries about the scholarship should be addressed to the Secretary and Treasurer

AGM 2008

The Society’s 73rd Annual General Meeting will be held in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 November 2008, when the annual lecture will be given by Professor John H L Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School in the United States. Professor Langbein is is an eminent legal historian and a leading American authority on trust, probate, pension and investment law. He teaches and writes in the fields of Anglo-American and European legal history, modern comparative law, trust and estate law, and pension and employee benefit law.

Further details of the meeting will be published in September 2008

The Stair Society is registered as a Scottish Charity (number SCO15283). It was founded in 1934 to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance. Since 1934 it has produced some 50 volumes, aiming to publish a volume each year (although this is not guaranteed). At its Annual Meeting each November a distinguished Lecturer is invited to give an address, which is followed by lunch for members and their guests. In making knowledge of the past readily accessible and fulfilling its objectives, the Society depends on the support of Scottish lawyers, both advocates and solicitors, and on legal historians throughout the world, as well as upon libraries and institutions.