Lawyers' empire : legal professions and cultural authority, 1780-1950

Summary: "In these critical essays, Wes Pue explores the social roles lawyers imagined for themselves in England and its expanding empire from the late eighteenth to the early 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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780774833097
ISBN: 0774833092
Physical Description: print
xiv, 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1. History in professional apologetics. The use of history in the development of lawyers' mythologies -- How "French" was the English bar? barristers and political liberalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Law and colony: making the Canadian legal profession -- Part 2. Shaping minds and souls: legal education. Professional legal education at Queen's College, Birmingham, in the 1850s -- Common law legal education in the Dominion of Canada's moral project -- British Empire perspectives on the case method of legal education: Canada, 1885-1931 -- Part 3. Ethics, regulation, and the business of law. Free trade in law: English barristers, county courts, and provincial practice in the 1850s -- The end of free trade in law: discipline at the Inns in the 1860s -- Regulating lawyers' ethics in early-twentieth-century Canada -- Part 4. Challenging the status quo: communists and liberals. Gordon Martin, British Columbia communist, 1948 -- Liberal entrepreneurship thwarted: Charles Rann Kennedy and the foundations of England's modern Bar -- Part 5. Dominion and colonial lawyering. Christ, manhood, and Empire: the case method of legal education in Canada, 1885-1931 -- Lawyers' professionalism, colonialism, state formation, and national life in Nigeria, 1900-60: "The Fighting Brigade of the People" / co-authored with Chidi Oguamanam.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.