LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: On Being, Elitism, Rationality
22 Mar 2016
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The origin of the legal profession goes back to rome (cicero as an example, -in the imperial period, (44 bc to 410 bc) we see the profession of lawyers emerging: an paid agent allowed to appear in the place of another person Law becomes progressively a professionalized tool of social control of market control : the successful assertion of unchallenged authority over some area of knowledge and its instrumentalization (p. 241) The growing independence of law as a discipline versus other authorities (theology and humanism written large), especially in england (inns of court) . An edict of edward 1 in 1292 created a effective monopoly over the profession in. The appointment of sir william blackstone in cambridge in 1758 made law accessing the rank of an official discipline belonging in university cursus. With emerging modern society with a more complex division of labor and standardization of professions, we see emerging law as:
