Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America
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Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America

  1. 213 pages
  2. English
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Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America

About this book

First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution. The main themes covered by each contributor are: the status, number and vocational functions of the different classes or groups or lawyers; their social origins; education and career patterns; relations between lawyers and clients, other occupations and status-groups and the state; the extent of legal 'professionalisation' and the role of lawyers as 'modernisers' in cultural, economic, political and social terms. This book will be of interest to students of history, law and political science.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032630755
eBook ISBN
9781003814368
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia britannica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Preface to the Reprinted Edition
  8. Contents
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. The English Legal Profession, 1450–1550
  12. 2. The Common Lawyers in England, c. 1558–1642
  13. 3. The English Bar, 1550–1700
  14. 4. The English Bar in the Georgian Era
  15. 5. The English Civilians, 1500–1750
  16. 6. The Legal Profession in Colonial North America
  17. 7. The Advocates, the Law and the Nation in Early Modern Scotland
  18. 8. Lawyers in Pre-revolutionary France
  19. 9. Lawyers and Litigation in Castile, 1500–1750
  20. Notes on Contributors
  21. Index