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The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, W. Hamilton Bryson
The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, W. Hamilton Bryson
University of Richmond Law Review
The English Inns of Court in London had ceased to perform their educational functions in the middle of the seventeenth century. For the next hundred years or so, there was no formal or organized instruction of the English common law. Lawyers, both barristers and solicitors in England and in America, learned their profession as best they could in unstructured situations. They learned by serving as apprentices or clerks to practicing lawyers, by the independent reading of law books, and by observation in the courtroom itself.
Census Of Law Books In Colonial Virginia By William Hamilton Bryson, E. Lee Shepard
Census Of Law Books In Colonial Virginia By William Hamilton Bryson, E. Lee Shepard
University of Richmond Law Review
A decade ago Stanley Katz asserted that the eighteenth century American lawyer exhibited "a surprising familiarity with contemporary English law and a high degree of technical competence," and challenged legal historians to reappraise traditional views of the colonial bar. To a great extent this task has been undertaken, but the legal history of early Virginia still languishes. Anxious to rectify this situation, Professor W. Hamilton Bryson of the University of Richmond School of Law has compiled a "census" of law books in early Virginia, hoping to "shed some light on the law which shaped the lawyers who shaped the nation."
The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Many methods of legal education have been used over the years. Each has its strengths and its weaknesses. The study of the past is instructive and useful in showing both the good and bad goals and methods. We must cultivate the good and uproot the bad. This study suggests that there has always been progress, slow but constant improvement. The teaching of law is vital to the administration of justice, a noble cause. The continuing challenge is ever to strive for the improvement thereof.
Notes On Virginia Civil Procedure, William Hamilton Bryson
Notes On Virginia Civil Procedure, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
This book is an outline of the introductory course on Virginia civil procedure which the author teaches at University of Richmond. The purpose of this publication is to give the students an introduction to the subject which can be read prior to the classroom discussion. It is a very brief sketch of the subject, but there are references in the footnotes to cases and statutes or to secondary works which give case references. The scope of my course and of this book excludes all federal law, criminal law and habeas corpus, evidence, creditors' rights, and probate proceedings; these matters are …