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PUBLICATIONS

The Society's latest volume, Miscellany VI, was published in December 2009. Edited by Professor Hector L MacQueen and with a preface by Sheriff Peter G B McNeill, it contains twelve essays by various authors.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.

AGM and ANNUAL LECTURE

The Society’s 74th AGM was held on 7 November 2009, when the annual lecture was given by Professor Michael Lobban Professor of Legal History, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law. The 75th AGM will be held in Edinburgh on Saturday 6 November 2010, when the annual lecture will be given by Dr John Ford, Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Further details will be announced in September 2010.

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 the history 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 nearly 60 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.