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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."