The Study On The Inns Of Court In England

The Inns of Court was born in the middle and second half of the 13^th century.The Inns of Court is a training institution for barristers of common law in England.Based on the dynamic and static description of the literature,this dissertation aims to explore the specific role played by the Inns of Court in the process of the modernization from the late Middle Ages to the early modern times in England,and the nature of the Inns of Court,through a deep analysis of its historical development.The conclusion of the dissertation,through combing the historical development of the Inns of Court,is not difficult to find that the Inns of Court has always appeared on the stage of British educational history as a legal educational institution.No study can deny the unique position in the history of common law education.In addition,in a specific historical context,the Inns of Court plays a role beyond the identity of educational institutions.No matter how the times change,the Inns of Court has not changed the function of training common law legal talents.The first part examines the emergence of Inns of Court.Probing into its historical background,this part investigates the factors that contributed to the birth of the Inns of Court,including the development of feudal society and the changes of judicial environment in England in the late Middle Ages,contradictions between the changes of English society and the needs of legal education in this period,and the rise of a lawyer class.The second part discusses the organizational structure and operational mechanism of the Inns of Court.It centers on the structure of members,operation mechanism and legal education of the Inns of Court.The members of the Inns of Court present a three-tier pyramid structure:the top is the competent members and lecturers,the middle is the external lawyers,and the bottom is the law students and internal lawyers.The internal operation mechanism of Inns of Court is characterized by centralized management and hierarchical organization.There are structural problems in the management.The third part surveys the reform of the legal education in the Inns of Court in the social transitional period.Consulting Bacon Report,this part expounds on the liberal art education in the Inns of Court and its development towards humanistic education.Through the case study of the Whitelocke family,three generations of which attained upward social mobility by attending the Inns of Court,it probes into the role of the Inns of Court in social mobility.The last part concerns the decline of the Inns of Court.After the outbreak of the British Revolution,the British higher education plummeted in general,and the Inns of Court failed to overcome the dilemma of educational involution that had already occurred before the Civil War and had lost its central position completely in the British higher education by the end of the Revolution.Face to the challenge of the New Age,the Inns of Court adjusted themselves in time.Legal education is fundamental to the rule of law of a country.Its quality determines all the participants’performance in the rule of law.Its development affects the direction,scale and speed of the development of the rule of law.As the cradle of training lawyers in Britain,since its establishment in the late half of 13th century,the Inns of Court has not only shouldered the historical mission of training professional lawyers and judges,but also played a unique role in promoting the construction of political ecology,adjusting the structure of social order and fostering the advancement of culture and art in Britain.