{"id":126,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=126"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:15","slug":"robert-bruce-1718-1785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/robert-bruce-1718-1785\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Bruce (1718-1785)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bruce<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, 1759-1764<\/li>\n<li>Lord Kennet (1764)<\/li>\n<li>Son-in-law of <a title=\"George Abercromby of Tullibody (1705-1800)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/george-abercromby-of-tullibody-1705-1800\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Abercromby<\/a> of Tullibody<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Advertised his \u2018Course of Lectures upon GROTIUS DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS\u2019 in Oct 1759 (Cairns, \u2018First\u2019 23*)<\/li>\n<li>40 students in session 1763-64 (Cairns, \u2018Famous\u2019137*)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;lectured regularly to large classes&#8217; (Emerson, <em>Academic patronage<\/em> 262*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*For references, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Bruce Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, 1759-1764 Lord Kennet (1764) Son-in-law of George Abercromby of Tullibody Teaching Advertised his \u2018Course of Lectures upon GROTIUS DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS\u2019 in Oct 1759 (Cairns, \u2018First\u2019 23*) 40 students in session 1763-64 (Cairns, \u2018Famous\u2019137*) &#8216;lectured regularly to large classes&#8217; (Emerson, Academic patronage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,52],"tags":[59,7,5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}