Cover

Contents

Preface

Chronology

Introduction

PART ONE: BECOMING LORD MANSFIELD

1 Scotland

2 Westminster and Oxford

3 Lincoln’s Inn

4 A Rising Lawyer

5 Entering Politics

6 Law Officer of the Crown

7 Murray and the Jacobites

8 Attaining the Bench and the Peerage

9 The Judge as Politician

10 Family Affairs

11 The Social Scene

PART TWO: JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF REASON

12 Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench

13 Commerce and Industry

14 Freedom of the Press

15 Crime and Punishment

16 Betting and Lending

17 Slavery and the Somerset Case

18 The American Revolution

19 Protecting Authors and Inventors

20 Women and Marriage

21 Religious Freedom

22 The Gordon Riots

23 Last Years

Epilogue: Lord Mansfield’s Legacy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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