This work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..

"Historians have long recognized that members of the lower branch of the legal profession, the ancestors of the modern solicitors, played an important part in e

Litigation does not have a good press - in fact, it is usually viewed very negatively. Rates of litigation in Western countries are claimed to be spiralling bey

A Festschrift in honour of Professor Sir John Baker, presented by leading scholars on the sources of English legal history.

Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays ro