Lawyers’ Empire
Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Lawyers’ Empire
Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950

Table of Contents
Foreword / 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
Index
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