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Professors of the Law

Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century

by David Lemmings

Lawyers, great britainInns of courtPractice of lawHistoryLawyersCommon law

Lemmings provides a wealth of detail about barrister's numbers, education, working habits, reputation and self-image, and compares them with colonial American lawyers. He suggests that the bar failed English society and therefore the common law.

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Book data: Open Library