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Book SynopsisIn approaching the history of the legal professions through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue locates the legal profession within England and its empire, supplementing and disrupting established narratives of professionalism as proffered by lawyers and their critics.
Table of ContentsForeword / David Sugarman
Part 1: History in Professional Apologetics
1 The Use of History in the Development of Lawyers’ Mythologies
2 How “French” Was the English Bar? Barristers and Political Liberalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
3 Law and Colony: Making the Canadian Legal Profession
Part 2: Shaping Minds and Souls: Legal Education
4 Professional Legal Education at Queen’s College, Birmingham, in the 1850s
5 Common Law Legal Education in the Dominion of Canada’s Moral Project
6 British Empire Perspectives on the Case Method of Legal Education: Canada, 1885-1931
Part 3: Ethics, Regulation, and the Business of Law
7 Free Trade in Law: English Barristers, County Courts, and Provincial Practice in the 1850s
8 The End of Free Trade in Law: Discipline at the Inns in the 1860s
9 Regulating Lawyers’ Ethics in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada
Part 4: Challenging the Status Quo – Communists and Liberals
10 Gordon Martin, British Columbia Communist, 1948
11 Liberal Entrepreneurship Thwarted: Charles Rann Kennedy and the Foundations of England’s Modern Bar
Part 5: Dominion and Colonial Lawyering
12 Christ, Manhood, and Empire: The Case Method of Legal Education in Canada, 1885-1931
13 Lawyers’ Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-60: “The Fighting Brigade of the People” / Co-authored with Chidi Oguamanam
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