{"id":187,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=187"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:16","slug":"john-millar-1735-1801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/john-millar-1735-1801\/","title":{"rendered":"John Millar (1735-1801)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Millar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Regius Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow, 1761-1801<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018By the time of the creation of the regius chair [1713], natural law had come into prominence as an integral part of legal education\u2026\u2019 (Cairns, \u2018Famous\u2019 135*)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018In 1765 Millar turned the second of the annual courses on the Institutes into a presentation of natural jurisprudence modelled on the theory of his mentor, Adam Smith, who had resigned in 1764.\u2019 (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018\u2026did not teach from Grotius\u2019 work or a compend of it, but unfolded his own Smithian account of the nature of law and its progress that followed the structure of Justinian\u2019s Institutes\u2019. (Cairns, \u2018First\u2019 47*)<\/li>\n<li>Recommended Cocceji and Heineccius (Cairns, \u2018Historical Introduction\u2019 165*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications, Manuscripts and Other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MS 3930, &#8216;Lectures on law delivered by John Millar (1779-81)&#8217; [Civil Law] (NLS, Edinburgh)<\/li>\n<li>MS 3931, &#8216;Lectures on law delivered by John Millar (1779-81) \u2013 with printed title page \u2018A course of lectures on Government\u2019 (1778)&#8217; (NLS, Edinburgh)<\/li>\n<li>MS Gen 179, &#8216;Lectures on government, delivered in the University of Glasgow, by John Millar, written from notes taken by Alexander Campbell, 1783&#8217;, 4to (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<li>MS 289-291, &#8216;Lectures on government, given in the University of Glasgow, by John Millar, 1787-88. A fair copy in the hand of his son, James Millar. With a letter from James Millar, son of the professor, transmitting the volumes to the duke of Hamilton. 1833.&#8217; 4to, 3 vols. (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<li>MS Gen 180, &#8216;Lectures on government, delivered in the University of Glasgow, by John Millar, and taken down by William Rae, 1789&#8217; 4to, 3 vols., bound with printed syllabus, dated 1787 (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<li>MS Hamilton 117, &#8216;John Millar: Course of lectures upon jurisprudence [Student\u2019s notes.] 1793&#8217; 4to (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<li>MS Murray 77, &#8216;John Millar. Notes on the Institutes of Heneccius [sic], taken by David Boyle. These are copies of Boyle\u2019s notes, done by Alexander Boswell, Dec. 9th 1794.&#8217; (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<li>MS Gen 203, &#8216;John Millar: Lectures on the Publick Law of Great Britain&#8217; (n.d.) (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*For references, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Millar Regius Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow, 1761-1801 Teaching \u2018By the time of the creation of the regius chair [1713], natural law had come into prominence as an integral part of legal education\u2026\u2019 (Cairns, \u2018Famous\u2019 135*) \u2018In 1765 Millar turned the second of the annual courses on the Institutes into a presentation of [&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":[39,52],"tags":[59,79,57,74,70],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}