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The Beginning, Flourishing And Decline Of The Inns Of Court: The Consolidation Of The English Legal Profession After 1400, Anton Hermann Chroust

Vanderbilt Law Review

The origin and history of the Inns of Court, their relation to each other and to the English legal profession, and their subsequent decline, pose some puzzling problems which often do not admit of a precise or uniform answer. This paper, however, will attempt to clarify some of the following questions: When and under what conditions did the lawyers of England move into common dwelling places or Inns? Why did they cluster together in a strip of land which was surrounded on the south by the River Thames, on the east by the old City of London, on the north …