Book review: John Erskine, AN INSTITUTE OF THE LAW OF SCOTLAND 1st edn 1773 Edinburgh: Edinburgh Legal Education Trust (www.centreforprivatelaw.ed.ac.uk/monograph_series) 2014. Old Studies in Scots Law, vol 5. cxii+1025pp. ISBN 9780955633263. £30.

The Edinburgh Legal Education Trust is an important funding vehicle for legal research and education. Financed ultimately by CPD provision, the Trust is a powerful example of the positive impact that commercial engagement with the profession can have on the academic study and teaching of law. One of the Trust's activities is the publication of books on the law. Its Older Studies in Scots Law series comprises facsimile editions of important Scottish law books with introductions by some of today's leading legal scholars. The volume under review is the fifth to be produced in the series. Previous volumes have also been reviewed for this journal (see (2011) 15 EdinLR 33 and (2014) 18 EdinLR 300)