Professors of the Law
Subtitle: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780198207214
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Common law; English Law; c 1700 to c 1800; Inns of Court; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Lawyers; Europe - Great Britain - General; Legal History; History / Great Britain; Law-Legal History; Great Britain; 18th century; Practice of law
Description: 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.