James G Main

Professor Hector L. MacQueen

Lecture: "Ae fond kiss: a private matter?"

A lecture about the law of privacy.

Speaker: Professor Hector L. MacQueen, Professor of Private Law, Edinburgh Law School.
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2013
Time: 15:15
Venue: Room 0.28, Streatham Court, Streatham Campus

The paper considered the background and legal implications, contemporary and current, of an 1804 case in the Court of Session in which the publication of letters between the poet Robert Burns and the love of his life, known as Clarinda, was prohibited by the court.

A photograph from the lecture

 

Date: 20 February 2013

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