Learning the law : teaching and the transmission of law in England 1150-1900 / edited by Jonathan A. Bush and Alain Wijffels.

London : Hambledon Press, 1999.

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Law -- History -- Great Britain.

Law -- Study and teaching -- History -- Great Britain.

1. The Becket conflict and the invention of the myth of Lex Non Scripta

2. Teaching each other: judges, clerks, jurors and malefactors define the guilt/innocence jury

3. Law-writing and law teaching: treatise evidence of the formal teaching of English law in the late thirteenth century

4. Legal education in England before the Inns of Court

5. The mirror of justices

6. Reading the law: statute books and the private transmission of leagl knowledge in late medieval England

7. The Excepciones Contra Brevia: a late thirteenth-century teaching tool

8. Oral instruction in land law and conveyancing, 1250-1500

9. The canon law curriculum in medieval Cambridge

10. The education of English proctors, 1400-1640

11. Teaching the law in a time of change: the royal prerogative and the statute of uses

12. The ascent of the readings: some evidence from the readings on wills

13. Michael Dalton: the training of the early modern Justice of the Peace and the Cromwellian reforms

14. Legal handbooks as rhetoric books for common lawyers in early modern England

15. Study at the restoration Inns of Court

16. Lay legal knowledge in early modern England

17. Charles Viner and his chair: legal education in eighteenth-century Oxford

18. English ideas on legal education in Virginia

19. Apprenticeship or academy? the idea of a law university, 1830-1860

20. Who attended the lectures of Sir Henry Maine: and does it matter?

21. Sir Thomas Erskine Holland and the treatise tradition: the elements of jurisprudence revisited

22. Sir Frederick Pollock and the teaching of English law.

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