Studies national and international
Subtitle: being occasional lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh, 1864-1889
By: By James Lorimer ... With biographical notices by Robert Flint ... and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns ...
Contributors: Flint, Robert, 1838-; Rolin-Jaequemyns, Gustave, 1835-1902
Publisher: W. Green and Sons
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: International law; Social sciences.; Europe -- Politics and government
Table of contents: title: Biographical notices.; title: Lectures: I.  On the sphere and functions of an academical faculty of law.  II.  Professor Aytoun.  III.  The German war.  IV.  Reasons for the study of jurisprudence as a science.  V.  (1) The international significance of recent events.  (2) The Franco-German war.  VI.  Monarchy, republicanism, and democracy.  VII.  The Institute of international law found at Ghent.  VIII.  The "Three rules of Washington" viewed in their relation to international arbitration.  IX.  English and foreign jurists and international jurisprudence.  X.  On the denationalisation of Constantinople ...   XI.  Does the Coràn supply an ethical basis on which a political superstructure can be raised?  XII.  Prolegomena to a reasoned system of international law.  XIII.  The land question in its social and political aspects.  XIV.  Of the idea of the family in modern society.  XV.  Centralisation and decentralisation.  XVI.  Politics as a profession.; title: XVII.  The story of the chair of public law in the University of Edinburgh. XVIII.  The Faculty of law.  XIX.  The church and the bar.; title: Appendix.; title: Index.