{"id":20,"date":"2013-09-27T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:14","slug":"charles-areskine-of-alva-1680-1763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/charles-areskine-of-alva-1680-1763\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Areskine of Alva (1680-1763)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Areskine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations (Edinburgh, 1707-1734)<\/li>\n<li>Studied in the Netherlands and Italy (1707-11)<\/li>\n<li>Admitted advocate 1711, Solicitor General (1725-37), Lord Advocate (1737-42), Lord of Session from 1744, Lord Justice Clerk (1748-63)<\/li>\n<li>Private library contained key natural law texts [see Baston, &#8216;Library&#8217;*]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural law included in teaching he did as a regent (tutor) at Edinburgh in the early eighteenth century [see his <em>Theses philosophicae<\/em> of 1704]<\/li>\n<li>Inaugural lecture on &#8216;God as the Fountain of Law&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Advertised class &#8216;on the Laws of Nature and Nations&#8217; starting 16 Nov 1711 in the <em>Scots Courant<\/em> [Cairns, &#8216;First&#8217; 12*]<\/li>\n<li>Probably used Grotius <em>De jure belli ac pacis<\/em> as his textbook [Cairns, &#8216;First&#8217; 12*]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications, Manuscripts and other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lectures on philosophy and physics delivered at Edinburgh [probably by Charles Areskine] (1703) taken by Patrick Wilkie, later minister of Haddington (Advocates Library Adv. MS 20.7.1)<\/li>\n<li><em>Theses philosophic\u00e6, quas, auspice summo numine,\u00a0generosi aliquot &amp; ingenui juvenes Universitatis Jacobi Regis Edinburgen\u00e6 alumni, hac vice cum laurea emittendi, eruditorum examini subjicient, ad 12. diem Maii, H. Lq. S. Pr\u00e6side Carolo Areskine<\/em>\u00a0(Edinburgh 1704)<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Areskine Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations (Edinburgh, 1707-1734) Studied in the Netherlands and Italy (1707-11) Admitted advocate 1711, Solicitor General (1725-37), Lord Advocate (1737-42), Lord of Session from 1744, Lord Justice Clerk (1748-63) Private library contained key natural law texts [see Baston, &#8216;Library&#8217;*] Teaching Natural law included in teaching he [&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":[8,52],"tags":[59,7,6,5,66],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}