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Networks and Connections in Legal History

Networks and Connections in Legal History

Author: Michael Lobban; Ian Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108490887

Published In: September 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781108796637

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Network and Connections in Legal History examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India - shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns. It explores the transmission of legal ideas; what happened to those ideas was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life. In some cases, new thinkers made intellectual connections not previously conceived, in others it was the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which made them adapt. This book shows how networks and connections between people and places have shaped the way that legal ideas and practices are transmitted across time and space.

Offers a series of case studies of the personal networks developed by lawyers in different times and places
Covers a wide geographical range highlighting the importance of personal and intellectual networks to the development of the law
Shows how legal ideas are transmitted between people and places, placing legal developments in their social and geographical contexts

1. Introduction

Michael Lobban and Ian Williams

2. Networks and Influences: Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the Court of Chivalry

Anthony Musson

3. Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, principally in 1600-1650

Adelyn Wilson

4. Calling Time at the Bar: First women barristers and their networks and connections

Judith Bourne

5. The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm: Scottish and English Judges in British East Florida

M.C. Mirow

6. 'The Bengal Boiler': Legal Networks in Colonial Calcutta

Raymond Cocks