Title: Professors of the law : barristers and English legal culture in the eighteenth century /
Authors: Lemmings, David.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Lawyers Great Britain History; Lawyers England History; Common law England History
Abstract: 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.