The royal prerogative and the learning of the inns of court

Authors

Margaret McGlynn, Wellesley College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Journal

The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court

First Page

1

Last Page

349

URL with Digital Object Identifier

10.1017/CBO9780511495427

Abstract

Focusing on one text, Prerogativa Regis, this book examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century through surviving lecture notes. It demonstrates the ways in which the law developed from generation to generation; the points of contention within and between generations, and the ways in which the general knowledge of the legal profession was utilized and refined. It also considers whether the lawyers' treatment of this charged topic was affected by political pressures from outside the Inns.