As part of his duties as a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, M.C. Mirow will deliver a lecture entitled “Florida’s Forgotten British Legal Past” on 10 May 2016 in the MacCormick Room, Old College, Edinburgh. The talk will address the way Florida’s politicians and historians have forgot that our state was a British province from 1763 to 1783. It will examine some of the ways English courts and common law were used in the province. “Florida has such a complex colonial history. I am surprised more legal historians have not become fascinated with what was going on in our state before it became part of the United States and even afterwards. We have a rich and relatively unexplored legal history from before European contact to the present. I am delighted to share this unusual twenty-year slice of Florida’s history with scholars in the UK. It is odd to think that the first political refugees of our region were not Cubans fleeing the Castro regime; they were royalists from Georgia and South Carolina fleeing American independence, and this is the period I’ll explore next week,” said Mirow.
Professor Mirow to speak on English law in colonial Florida
