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English Ideas On Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
English Ideas On Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
In 1700 the only methods of legal education in England and Virginia were apprenticeship to a practising lawyer, either a barrister, a solicitor or a court clerk, and independent reading of law books; most persons seeking active membership in the legal profession did an apprenticeship supplemented by reading and observing the courts in action. In 1700 the inns of court had long since ceased to provide legal instruction, and the universities in England and Virginia had not yet begun to do so. The obvious importance of legal education was, however, not overlooked on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
A School Board's Authority Versus A Student's Right To Receive Information, Timothy L. Coggins
A School Board's Authority Versus A Student's Right To Receive Information, Timothy L. Coggins
Law Faculty Publications
This note examines the considerations which led the United States Supreme Court to determine that a school board's authority over the administration of the schools is not absolute if the exercise of this authority violates the constitutional rights of the students. Second. the note explores the development of a student's right to receive information through a school library as a guarantee of the first amendment, a right that cannot be ignored by a school board when the board removes books which it considers to be inappropriate either because of the ideas presented in the books or because of the local …