Lorimer

Lorimer, JAMES, jurist, was born at Aberdalgie, in Perthshire, on 4th November 1818, studied at Edinburgh, Geneva, Bonn, and Berlin, was called to the Scottish bar in 1845, and in 1862 appointed professor of Public and International Law in the university of Edinburgh. In 1873 he took a principal share in founding the Institute of International Law. He died on 13th February 1890. Besides being a busy contributor to the first edition of this Encyclopædia and to the Edinburgh and North British Reviews, he wrote, from the standpoint of the historico-political school, Handbook of the Law of Scotland (1862; 5th ed. 1885); Constitutionalism of the Future (1865; 2d ed. 1867); Reasons for the Study of Jurisprudence as a Science (1868); Institutes of Law (1872; 2d ed. 1880); and Institutes of the Law of Nations (1883-84), besides The Universities of Scotland (1854); Political Progress not necessarily Democratic (1857); and Studies, National and International (1891).