Irish Legal History Society Discourses and Other Papers, 2005-2009

This volume is a wide-ranging collection of legal history studies on aspects of the law and its interaction with wider society in Ireland and Scotland, presented to the Irish Legal History Society. Chapters include: Sir Edward Carson and some aspects of the Archer-Shee case
• Ulysses, Joyce, and the law
• King's Inns and the foundation of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland
• judicial review and the Constitution - what did the drafters actually intend?
• judicial dress in the county and circuit courts
• maintaining slavery without a code noir - Scotland 1700-78
• 'The Counsellor': Daniel O'Connell and the law
• the Irish Chancery project
• sheriffs, landlords, and tenants in Victorian Ireland
• W.E. Wylie, KC
• on lawyers, their obligations, and the Cicero collection at King's Inns Library
• James McGuire's presidential address to the Society (November 2009). (Series: Irish Legal History Society)