Learning the law : teaching and the transmission of law in England, 1150-1900 /

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Imprint:London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1999.
Description:xxv, 417 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4271116
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Other authors / contributors:Bush, Jonathan A.
Wijffels, Alain A.
Helmholz, R. H.
ISBN:1852851848 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Becket Conflict and the Invention of the Myth of Lex Non Scripta / Bruce O'Brien
  • 2. Teaching Each Other: Judges, Clerks, Jurors and Malefactors Define the Guilt/Innocence Jury / Roger D. Groot
  • 3. Law-Writing and Law Teaching: Treatise Evidence of the Formal Teaching of English Law in the Late Thirteenth Century / John S. Beckerman
  • 4. Legal Education in England before the Inns of Court / Paul Brand
  • 5. The Mirror of Justices / David J. Seipp
  • 6. Reading the Law: Statute Books and the Private Transmission of Legal Knowledge in Late Medieval England / Don C. Skemer
  • 7. The Excepciones Contra Brevia: A Late Thirteenth-Century Teaching Tool / Patrick F. Philbin
  • 8. Oral Instruction in Land Law and Conveyancing, 1250-1500 / John H. Baker
  • 9. The Canon Law Curriculum in Medieval Cambridge / James A. Brundage
  • 10. The Education of English Proctors, 1400-1640 / R. H. Helmholz
  • 11. Teaching the Law in a Time of Change: The Royal Prerogative and the Statute of Uses / Margaret McGlynn
  • 12. The Ascent of the Readings: Some Evidence from Readings on Wills / M. C. Mirow
  • 13. Michael Dalton: The Training of the Early Modern Justice of the Peace and the Cromwellian Reforms / L. R. McInnis
  • 14. Legal Handbooks as Rhetoric Books for Common Lawyers in Early Modern England / Lisa A. Perry
  • 15. Study at the Restoration Inns of Court / Thomas W. Evans
  • 16. Lay Legal Knowledge in Early Modern England / Wilfrid Prest
  • 17. Charles Viner and his Chair: Legal Education in Eighteenth-Century Oxford / D. J. Ibbetson
  • 18. English Ideas on Legal Education in Virginia / W. H. Bryson
  • 19. Apprenticeship or Academy? The Idea of a Law University, 1830-1860 / Christopher W. Brooks and Michael Lobban
  • 20. Who Attended the Lectures of Sir Henry Maine: And Does it Matter? / Raymond Cocks
  • 21. Sir Thomas Erskine Holland and the Treatise Tradition: The Elements of Jurisprudence Revisited / Richard A. Cosgrove
  • 22. Sir Frederick Pollock and the Teaching of English Law / Steve Hedley.