Wilfrid Prest

The rise of the barristers : a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640

List of tables Abbreviations Introduction The Business of the Bar Demand and Supply Group Porttrait Advancement Lawyers and Letters Religion Government and Politics Law, Lawyers and Litigants Appendices Index

Law reform and legal education in Interregnum England

Having compounded as a delinquent for attending Charles I at Oxford, the common lawyer Sir Peter Ball (1598–1680) sought to make his peace with the Commonwealth. Ball’s scheme for remodelling both the law itself and legal education at the inns of court is transcribed below, together with a covering letter forwarded to Bulstrode Whitelocke in 1649. His criticisms and positive proposals provide further evidence that the traditional mode of legal education by aural learning exercises had become widely perceived by the mid seventeenth century as both pedagogically ineffective and practically irrelevant to the training of common lawyers.

Wes Pue’s lawyers

This collection amply demonstrates the fruitfulness of Wes Pue’s exploration of professionalism and professionalisation, legal education and the political roles of law and lawyers over the past thi...

Clio and I

However flattering, despite its memento mori implications, this editorial commission demands something more than casual anecdote and reminiscence, while allowing insufficient space for full-blown autobiography or methodological treatise. All lives can be grist to the historian’s mill, but practising historians may not be the best persons to reconstruct, let alone assess, their own life stories. Nor does self-revelation necessarily aid reputation. But having taken it on, I see little alternative than to begin at the beginning, with an account of how I became a historian, then to say something about my historical preoccupations and activities.

Review of Alan Atkinson’s Democracy

Wilfred Prest of the University of Adelaide reviews The Europeans in Australia: A History. Volume Two: Democracy , by Alan Atkinson. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press; 2004, pp. 464. Four maps. Plates. AUD

William Sheppard, Cromwell's Law Reformer

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The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, 1590-1640

Preface Notes on style and on bibliography Abbreviations Introduction 1. Biography 2. Early legal works, 1641-1654 3. The Protectorate period, 1654-1959 4. Englands balme 5. Later contributions to legal literature, 1660-1674 6. Conclusion Bibliographical comment Chronological bibliography of Sheppards books Sheppards sources Index.