Biographical notices.--Lectures: I. On the sphere and functions of an academical faculty of law. II. Professor Aytoun. III. The German war. IV. Reasons for the study of jurisprudence as a science. V. (1) The international significance of recent events. (2) The Franco-German war. VI. Monarchy, republicanism, and democracy. VII. The Institute of international law found at Ghent. VIII. The "Three rules of Washington" viewed in their relation to international arbitration. IX. English and foreign jurists and international jurisprudence. X. On the denationalisation of Constantinople ... XI. Does the Coràn supply an ethical basis on which a political superstructure can be raised? XII. Prolegomena to a reasoned system of international law. XIII. The land question in its social and political aspects. XIV. Of the idea of the family in modern society. XV. Centralisation and decentralisation. XVI. Politics as a profession XVII. The story of the chair of public law in the University of Edinburgh. XVIII. The Faculty of law. XIX. The church and the bar.--Appendix.--Index