Legal education in colonial New York by Paul M. Hamlin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamlin, Paul M. (Paul Mahlon), 1896-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--United States--New York (Colony).

Law.

Law schools--United States--New York (Colony).

Law schools.

Lawyers--United States--New York (Colony).

Lawyers.

Clerks--United States--New York (Colony).

Clerks.

Law libraries--United States--New York (Colony).

Law libraries.

New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New York (State).

Physical Description:

xxv, 262 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Law Quarterly Review, 1939.

Contents:

Preface

Remarks on legal education in colonial America by J.H. Beale

Introduction. A colonial barrister's education

Clerkships and their regualtion

The law student's curriculum

Library facilities

Other educational opportunities

Legal equipment of the bench. Lawyers who were college graduates

Progress after the revolution

Appendices: Students of King's college, 1758-1784, who be ... James Gilchrist apprenticeship agreement, 1723. William Livingston's criticsm at the treatment accorded apprenticed law clerks. Law libraries. William Smith's course of study for law students, 1756. Early legal and debating selections in New York city. Members of the Superior courts of colonial New York. Article XXVII, New York state constitution, 1777. Examples of court orders and legislative acts affecting the education and training of law students, 1778-1797.

Notes:

Facsimile of the "Catalogue of library of John Chambers in his handwriting about 1760", on lining-papers.

Bibliography: p. [217]-232.