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Fundamental legal institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

P. G. Stein
P. G. Stein*
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University of Cambridge, Cambridge
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As law teachers, we are more reticent about our aims than our colleagues in other countries. It does no harm, therefore, to remind ourselves of what we are expected to do. We must start from the peculiar structure of legal education in England and Wales. The sharp division between the academic stage and the professional stage, each in the hands of institutions totally independent of each other, is almost unique to England and Wales. It does not exist in Scotland or in Northern Ireland, where there are no professional schools, and where the Universities share responsibility with the professions for most of the professional training. And it does not exist with such sharpness on the continent of Europe, or in North America. This distinction is the product of the Report of the House of Commons Committee of Legal Education in 1846. That Committee was set up when it was discovered that there was ‘no Legal Education, worthy of the name, of a public nature, in England or Ireland.

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Research Article
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Legal Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 1 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1982

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References

1. Report from the Select Committee on Legal Education, 25 August 1846, House of Commons Proceedings, p. 686. Extracts are printed in Stein, P., ‘Legal Theory and the Reform of Legal Education in mid-nineteenth century England’, L'Educazione Giuridica II: Profili storici, ed. Giuliani, A. and Picarda, N., Perugia 1979, pp. 185–206 Google Scholar.

2. Report cit., Conclusions, section 3.

3. Anonymous, ‘Legal Education’, Law Magazine or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, XXXVII (NS VI) 1847, p. 189.

4. Report from the Select Committee on Legal Education, Conclusions, section 6.

5. Report cit., XLVII.

6. Report of the Committee on Legal Education 1971, Cmnd. 4595, p. 8.

7. Anonymous, ‘How to become a Jurist’, VII, 1963, JSPTL (NS), pp. 129–136.

8. R.B.M. Cotterrell and J.C. Woodliffe, ‘The Teaching of Jurisprudence in British Universities 1974, XIII, JSP'TL (NS), p. 85.

9. E. Griew, Book Review, 1974, XIII, JSPTL (NS), pp. 144–7.

10. Hart, Henry M. Jr. and Sacks, Albert M., The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law, Cambridge, Mass., Tentative Ed. 1958, p. 4.Google Scholar

11. Op. cit., Preface.

12. C.5.59.5.2; cf. Post, G., Studies in Medieval Legal Thought 1964, pp. 163 et seqGoogle Scholar.

13. Cf. LordStuart, Mackenzie, The European Communities and the Rule of Law 1977, pp. 46–7.Google Scholar

14. M. Cappelletti, Processo e ideologie 1969, passim.

15. Binchy, D.A., ‘Ancient Irish Law’, Irish Jurist (NS), 1, 1966, p. 85 Google Scholar; cf. S. O'Faolain, London Review of Books, August 1981, 3.14.3.

16. Stein, P., ‘Arbitration under Roman Law’, Arbitration: Journal of the Institute of Arbitrators, 41, 1974, pp. 203–206 Google Scholar; Stein, P., ‘Labeo's Reasoning on Arbitration’. South African LJ, IXC, 1974, pp. 135–40 Google Scholar.

17. I have considered this material from the standpoint of preservation of judicial independence in ‘Safety in numbers: Sharing of responsibility for judicial decision in early modern Europe’, to appear in Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale della Societá Italiana di Storia del Diritto (1980).

18. Dawson, J.P., History of Lay Judges 1960, pp. 56, 70Google Scholar.

19. Treatise of Human Nature, III.6 (ed. Selby-Bigge, 1888, p. 531).

20. Milsom, S.F.C., ‘Law and Fact in Legal Development’, University of Toronto LJ 17. 1967, pp. 1–19 Google Scholar; cf. M. Prichard, “Scott v Shepherd (1773) and the emergence of the tort of negligence’, Selden SOC. Lecture series, 1976.

21. R. Pound, Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, revd. ed. 1954, p. 58; cf. P. Stein and Shand, J., Legal Values in Western Society 1974, p. 93 et seqGoogle Scholar.

22. A.F. Rodger, Owners and Neighbours in Roman Law 1972.

23. Equity in the World's Legal Systems, ed. R.A. Newman, 1974.

24. Lectures on Jurisprudence, ed. Meek, R.L., Raphael, D.D. and Stein, P., Oxford 1978 Google Scholar; cf. Stein, P., Legal Evolution: the Story of an Idea 1980, pp. 29–46 Google Scholar.

25. Op. cit., p. 16.

* The substance of the Presidential Address to the Society of Public Teachers of law, September 1981.