George Joseph Bell (1770–1843): ostatni szkocki pisarz instytucjonalny
George Joseph Bell (1770–1843): The Last Scottish Institutional Writer

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the figure of George Joseph Bell — professor of Scottish lawat the University of Edinburgh and author of two final Scottish institutional works: Principlesof the Law of Scotland and Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the Principles of Mercan-tile Jurisprudence. The publication of both works in the first half of the nineteenth century marksa unique caesura in the history of Scottish law — both the level of complexity of the legal systemand the significant convergence of Scottish law and solutions known to English law resulted ina lack of both need and opportunity for a comprehensive treatment of the Scottish law system inthe form of a holistic legal treatise. G.J. Bell’s unfulfilled dream of becoming a judge of the Courtof Session enabled him to refine his monograph on insolvency law to the level of just such a treatise,which consequently acquired the status of an institutional work and secured for the author a place inthe history of Scottish law which is not given to every judge of even the highest of courts.

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