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Particularly strong on the working life of the bar both in the central courts at Westminster and in the provinces and colonies ... Unusually for a scholarly work Professors of the Law, is at least in places, also a 'very good read'. Andrew Hudleston's fatherly worries about his wastrel son and Charles Pratt's letters to his fiancee help to give the material a life that it would otherwise lack ... Dr Lemmings has written an excellent book on the history of the legalprofession. Legal History Dr Lemmings has written an interesting and important book on the culture of English law during a critical period ... Certainly historians of the legal profession will find this book extremely rewarding. Moreover, it will provide scholars interested in the growth of practical parliamentary supremacy with a stimulating twist to a familiar story. Parliamentary History Historians of the long eighteenth century, and of the legal profession, are strongly encouraged to read it. The Cambridge Law Journal Professors of the Law is a superb achievement, an example of the highest quality of legal-historical research and writing. Based on an impressive array of manuscript and published sources and written with clarity and style, the book contains insights, elegantly expressed, on nearly every page. The Cambridge Law Journal Lemmings paints a detailed, interesting, yet most unflattering picture of eighteenth-century English barristers ... all those seriously interested in English constitutional and legal history should welcome it. History Meaty study ... Professors of the Law is a treasure trove of new analysis and information about the working lives and cultural impact of barristers in the long eighteenth century. Penelope J. Corfield, Times Literary Supplement
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`a rich and complex work ... well-handled central argument of the book' BJECS 24.2
`David Lemmings' outstanding study of the upper tier of the English legal profession in the eighteenth century, provides a model contribution to the history of the profession for a time period where such surveys are in short supply.' Journal of Modern History
`Historians of the long eighteenth century, and of the legal profession, are strongly encouraged to read it.' The Cambridge Law Journal
`Professors of the Law is a superb achievement, an example of the highest quality of legal-historical research and writing. Based on an impressive array of manuscript and published sources and written with clarity and style, the book contains insights, elegantly expressed, on nearly every page.' The Cambridge Law Journal
`This book is a worthy sequel to Professor Lemming's earlier research, published as Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar,1680-1730 (Oxford 1990) ... Together the two books establish Professor Lemmings as the leading historian of the legal profession's upper branch in the long eighteenth century' The Cambridge Law Journal
`Lemmings paints a detailed, interesting, yet most unflattering picture of eighteenth-century English barristers ... all those seriously interested in English constitutional and legal history should welcome it.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`The book is clearly written and well organized.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`David Lemmings continues to add to our knowledge of England's legal profession ... American readers will be particularly interested in the short but insightful section that contrasts colonial American attorneys with English barristers.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`meaty study ... Professors of the Law is a treasure trove of new analysis and information about the working lives and cultural impact of barristers in the long eighteenth century.' Penelope J. Corfield, TLS
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Particularly strong on the working life of the bar both in the central courts at Westminster and in the provinces and colonies ... Unusually for a scholarly work Professors of the Law, is at least in places, also a 'very good read'. Andrew Hudleston's fatherly worries about his wastrel son and Charles Pratt's letters to his fiancee help to give the material a life that it would otherwise lack ... Dr Lemmings has written an excellent book on the history of the legalprofession. Legal History Dr Lemmings has written an interesting and important book on the culture of English law during a critical period ... Certainly historians of the legal profession will find this book extremely rewarding. Moreover, it will provide scholars interested in the growth of practical parliamentary supremacy with a stimulating twist to a familiar story. Parliamentary History Historians of the long eighteenth century, and of the legal profession, are strongly encouraged to read it. The Cambridge Law Journal Professors of the Law is a superb achievement, an example of the highest quality of legal-historical research and writing. Based on an impressive array of manuscript and published sources and written with clarity and style, the book contains insights, elegantly expressed, on nearly every page. The Cambridge Law Journal Lemmings paints a detailed, interesting, yet most unflattering picture of eighteenth-century English barristers ... all those seriously interested in English constitutional and legal history should welcome it. History Meaty study ... Professors of the Law is a treasure trove of new analysis and information about the working lives and cultural impact of barristers in the long eighteenth century. Penelope J. Corfield, Times Literary Supplement
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`a rich and complex work ... well-handled central argument of the book' BJECS 24.2
`David Lemmings' outstanding study of the upper tier of the English legal profession in the eighteenth century, provides a model contribution to the history of the profession for a time period where such surveys are in short supply.' Journal of Modern History
`Historians of the long eighteenth century, and of the legal profession, are strongly encouraged to read it.' The Cambridge Law Journal
`Professors of the Law is a superb achievement, an example of the highest quality of legal-historical research and writing. Based on an impressive array of manuscript and published sources and written with clarity and style, the book contains insights, elegantly expressed, on nearly every page.' The Cambridge Law Journal
`This book is a worthy sequel to Professor Lemming's earlier research, published as Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar,1680-1730 (Oxford 1990) ... Together the two books establish Professor Lemmings as the leading historian of the legal profession's upper branch in the long eighteenth century' The Cambridge Law Journal
`Lemmings paints a detailed, interesting, yet most unflattering picture of eighteenth-century English barristers ... all those seriously interested in English constitutional and legal history should welcome it.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`The book is clearly written and well organized.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`David Lemmings continues to add to our knowledge of England's legal profession ... American readers will be particularly interested in the short but insightful section that contrasts colonial American attorneys with English barristers.' Wayne C.Bartee, History: Reviews of New Books
`meaty study ... Professors of the Law is a treasure trove of new analysis and information about the working lives and cultural impact of barristers in the long eighteenth century.' Penelope J. Corfield, TLS
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