Lord Mansfield: justice in the age of reason

Introduction

Becoming Lord Mansfield

Justice in the age of reason

Epilogue: Lord Mansfield's legacy.

Part Two : Justice in the Age of Reason. Chief justice of the Court of King's Bench

Commerce and industry

Freedom of the press

Crime and punishment

Betting and lending

Slavery and the Somerset Case

The American Revolution

Protecting authors and inventors

Women and marriage

Religious Freedom

The Gordon Riots

Last years

Epilogue : Lord Mansvield's legacy.

Part One : Becoming Lord Masfield. Scotland

Westminster and Oxford

Lincoln's Inn

A rising lawyer

Entering politics

Law officer of the Crown

Murray and the Jacobites

Attaining the bench and the peerage

The judge as politician

Family affairs

The social scene.