Roger D. Groot (School of Law, Washington and Lee University): Isolts trial and ordeal: a legal-historical analysis - Dafydd Jenkins (Department of Law, University of Walses, Aberystwyth): Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks - Paul Brand (All Souls College, Oxford): The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I - Frederik Pedersen (School of History and History of Art, University of Aberdeen): The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France - W.D.H. Sellar (School of Law, University of Edinburgh): Birlaw courts and birleymen - C.H. van Rhee (Dept of Merajuridica, Law School, Maastricht University): The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure - Kevin Costello (Faculty of Law, University College, Dublin): Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland - Daniel M. Klerman (Law School, University of Southern California) and Paul G. Mahoney (School of Law, University of Virginia): The value of judicial indepe

In its 25th anniversary year, the Irish Legal History Society republishes two bibliographical essays by its progenitor and former president, Professor W.N. Osborough, fully revised and updated, and collected here with a new third essay to form a complete bibliography of Irish legal history.

This is the third collection of papers read at meetings of the Irish Legal History Society during 20004, along with some other papers on Irish legal history. Contents: D.S. Greer (QUB), Truck in Donegal in the 1890s; James McGuire (UCD), Sir Richard Nagle; James Kelly (DCU, St Patricks), The making of law in 18th-century Ireland; Frank Callanan (Barrister), T.M. Healy; Hector MacQueen, Legal nationalism; W.N. Osborough (UCD), The quest for the last testament of Christopher Wandesford, lord deputy of Ireland; Felix Larkin, Judge Bodkin and the 1916 Rising: a letter to his son; Gerard OBrien (UU, Coleraine), Capital punishment in Ireland, 192464; D.S. Greer, The Irish court for crown cases reserved; Mark Finnane, Irish criminal justice statistics in the later 19th century; Desmond McCabe, Petty sessions in 19th-century Ireland; Brian Griffin (Bath College), Prevention and detection of crime, 1836 1900; Concluding essay by Ronan Keane.