David Lemmings

Professors of the Law

Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In his conclusion the author suggests that the failure of the bar and the judiciary to follow Blackstones mid-century recommendations for reforming legal culture and delivering the Englishmans birthrights significantly assisted the growth of parliamentary absolutism in government.

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The story of the English barristers and the culture of common law between 1690 and 1820 is a complex one. In Professors of the Law David Lemmings provides a wealth of detail about barristers' numbers, education, working habits, reputation, and self-image, and compares them with colonial American lawyers. The broad-ranging conclusion suggests that the bar ultimately failed English society and contributed to the marginalization of the common law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780198207214
• ISBN-10: 0198207212
• Artikelnr.: 21605580

Inhaltsangabe

* I. Introduction: Two Stories of the Law
* Historians, the Law, and Eighteenth-Century Society
* Another Story of the Law: the Reputation of Lawyers and the Courts
* II. The Work of the Bar and Working Life
* Advocacy and Pleading: The Shape of Barristers Work
* Counselling and Conveying
* Everyday Life
* III. Barristers and Practisers: Numbers and Prospects
* Barristers and Non Practisers
* Practisers: Supply and Demand
* The Characteristics of Litigation: A Crisis in Westminster Hall?
* Prospects for Barristers: Keeping Life Going
* IV. Gentlemen Bred to the Law: Induction and Legal Education
* Motives and Qualifications: Hopes and Dreams
* The Failure of Institutions: Education at the Universities and the
Inns
* A Dry and Disgusting Study: Learning the Law
* A Cultural Challenge?
* V. Practice at the Centre: Westminster Hall and Its Satellites
* Starting Out: Launching A Practice
* Winners and Losers: The Distribution of Work in Westminster Hall
* Getting On: Practices, Fees, and Incomes
* VI. Practice at the Margins: The Old Bailey and the Colonies
* Tribunes of the People: The Old Bailey Bar Law, Lawyers, and
* Ireland and America: Colonial Bars and Barristers
* Law, Lawyers, and 1776: Contrasting American Attorneys and English
Barristers
* VII. Advancement and Independence
* Rank and Status at the Inns of Court: Internal Promotion
* Patronage, Politics, and Office: External Promotion
* Serving the State? The Independence of Bar and Bench
* VIII. Conclusion: The Culture of the Bar and the Recession of the
Common Law
* Collective Life and Rituals 24. Self-Images: Collective Self-Esteem
and Legitimating Concepts
* Self-Images: Collective Self-Esteem and Legitimating Concepts
* Consequences? : The Failure of the Bar and Recession of the Common
Law
* Appendix A: Methodology and Biographical Notes for Barrister Samples,
1719-21 and 1769-71
* Appendix B: A Prescription for Educating a Barrister, 1736
* Appendix C: Leading Counsel In Kings Bench, Exchequer, Common Pleas,
and Chancery, 1720, 1740, 1770, 1790
* Appendix D: A Junior Barrister's Complaints about the Selection and
Advantage of King's Counsel, 1750