Lawyers' Empire

Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social roles lawyers imagined for themselves in England and its expanding empire from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a critical moment when lawyers – whether leaders or rebels – sought to reshape their profession. In the process, they often fancied they were also shaping the culture and politics of both nation and empire as they struggled to develop or adapt professional structures, represent clients, or engage in advocacy.As an exploration of the relationship between legal professionals and liberalism at home or in the Empire, this work draws attention to recurrent disagreements as to how lawyers have best assured their own economic well-being while simultaneously advancing the causes of liberty, cultural authority, stability, and continuity.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt900 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw and Society
Antal sidor516
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774833097
UtmärkelserWinner of CLSA Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association 2017 (Canada)

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W. Wesley Pue is a professor of law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He is past president of the Canadian Law and Society Association, past provost at UBC's Okanagan campus, and past vice-provost for UBC's Vancouver campus. His work has been published in law journals around the world, and his book-length publications include Law School: The Story of Legal Education in British Columbia; Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions (co-edited with David Sugarman); Misplaced Traditions: Colonial and Post-colonial Approaches to Legal Professions in British Colonies (co-edited with Robert McQueen); and Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair.

Foreword / David SugarmanPart 1: History in Professional Apologetics1 The Use of History in the Development of Lawyers' Mythologies2 How "French" Was the English Bar? Barristers and Political Liberalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries3 Law and Colony: Making the Canadian Legal ProfessionPart 2: Shaping Minds and Souls: Legal Education4 Professional Legal Education at Queen's College, Birmingham, in the 1850s5 Common Law Legal Education in the Dominion of Canada's Moral Project6 British Empire Perspectives on the Case Method of Legal Education: Canada, 1885-1931Part 3: Ethics, Regulation, and the Business of Law7 Free Trade in Law: English Barristers, County Courts, and Provincial Practice in the 1850s8 The End of Free Trade in Law: Discipline at the Inns in the 1860s9 Regulating Lawyers' Ethics in Early-Twentieth-Century CanadaPart 4: Challenging the Status Quo – Communists and Liberals10 Gordon Martin, British Columbia Communist, 194811 Liberal Entrepreneurship Thwarted: Charles Rann Kennedy and the Foundations of England's Modern BarPart 5: Dominion and Colonial Lawyering12 Christ, Manhood, and Empire: The Case Method of Legal Education in Canada, 1885-193113 Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-60: "The Fighting Brigade of the People" / Co-authored with Chidi OguamanamIndex