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Jurist of the 18th and 19th centuries were often in disagreement as to the proper method of instructing students who wished to take up the practice of law. This volume distills the essential elements of the controversy over legal education and offers many articles and papers on the topic that are no longer available in print. A compilation of seventeen essays by influential legal scholars of the period, it presents arguments for and against the educations approaches that dominated English and American legal study for more than two centuries.

Dean Hoeflich's introduction examines the...

Seeking to fill a gap in our knowledge of the legal history of the nineteenth century, this volume studies the influence of Roman and civil law upon the development of common law jurisdictions in the United States and in Great Britain. M. H. Hoeflich examines the writings of a variety of prominent Anglo-American legal theorists to show how Roman and civil law helped common law thinkers develop their own theories.

Intellectual leaders in law in the United States and Great Britain used Roman and civil law in different ways at different times. The views of these lawyers were greatly...

From the series Foundations of the American Law of Lawyering, Michael H. Hoeflich, General Editor. With a New Introduction by Michael H. Hoeflich, University of Kansas School of Law. Originally published: Albany: W.C. Little & Co., 1882. xii (v-xii new introduction), 150 pp. A controversial address given by Edwin Countryman at Albany Law School in 1881 in which Countryman makes the case for permitting lawyers to utilize contingent fee arrangements.

With a New Introduction by Michael H. Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law. "'With the exception of the Bible there is no book which has so profoundly affected western civilization as the Corpus Juris.' With these suggestive words Dean Walton begins his clear and interesting summary of the history of the Roman Law before Justinian. Intended as an introduction to the study in Montreal of the Roman law in its modern form, and especially as it appears today in the law of the Province of Quebec, it is equally valuable for one who is to...