I have been attending the annual meeting of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) this weekend, one of the intellectual and cultural highlights of my academic year. (This year’s IASS conference took place at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy!) Today, I want to call out scholars who routinely cite Smith’s “Lectures on Jurisprudence” (circa 1760s) without proper qualification or at least a disclaimer, for it’s one thing to cite one of the Scottish philosopher-economist’s great published works, such as The Theory of Moral Sentiments or The Wealth of Nations, but as I shall explain in my next two posts, it is intellectually dubious — and perhaps even morally wrong — to cite Smith’s early law lectures.