Learning the Law
Teaching and the Transmission of English Law, 1150-1900
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 1999
444 pages
978-1-4411-0186-0 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this text deal with aspects of British legal learning. It traces the tradition of learning dating back to the Middle Ages and how the inns of court provided the equivalent of a legal university. The essays describe how before the middle of the 19th-century there was little formal provision of legal education in Britain and that law in the ancient universities was not intended to have practical value and entrance to the bar was not dependent upon written examination.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0186-0 (9781441101860)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 The Becket Conflict and the Invention of the Myth of Lex Non Scripta
- 2 Teaching Each Other: Judges, Clerks, Jurors and Malefactors Define the Guilt/Innocence Jury
- 3 Law-Writing and Law Teaching: Treatise Evidence of the Formal Teaching of English Law in the Late Thirteenth Century
- 4 Legal Education in England before the Inns of Court
- 5 The Mirror of Justices
- 6 Reading the Law: Statute Books and the Private Transmission of Legal Knowledge in Late Medieval England
- 7 The Excepciones Contra Brevia: A Late Thirteenth-Century Teaching Tool
- 8 Oral Instruction in Land Law and Conveyancing, 1250-1500
- 9 The Canon Law Curriculum in Medieval Cambridge
- 10 The Education of English Proctors, 1400-1640
- 11 Teaching the Law in a Time of Change: The Royal Prerogative and the Statute of Uses
- 12 The Ascent of the Readings: Some Evidence from Readings on Wills
- 13 Michael Dalton: The Training of the Early Modern Justice of the Peace and the Cromwellian Reforms
- 14 Legal Handbooks as Rhetoric Books for Common Lawyers in Early Modern England
- 15 Study at the Restoration Inns of Court
- 16 Lay Legal Knowledge in Early Modern England
- 17 Charles Viner and his Chair: Legal Education in Eighteenth-Century Oxford
- 18 English Ideas on Legal Education in Virginia
- 19 Apprenticeship or Academy? The Idea of a Law University, 1830-1860
- 20 Who Attended the Lectures of Sir Henry Maine: And Does it Matter?
- 21 Sir Thomas Erskine Holland and the Treatise Tradition: The Elements of Jurisprudence Revisited
- 22 Sir Frederick Pollock and the Teaching of English Law
