The Inns Of Court And The Cultivation Of Legal Practitioners (From The Middle 15th Century To The Early 17th Century)

In the European continent,the university has been a base for legal education for a long time,but it does not apply in England.From the late Middle Ages to the early modern times,the inns of court had a monopoly on legal professional education,which became the main place for the training of legal practitioners and thus enjoyed a reputation as "the third university" of England.The inns of court have developed a unique model of apprenticeship which contributes to the development of English legal talents from the mid-fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries.This paper consists of three parts:introduction,text and conclusionThe introduction mainly expatiates on the reason of this topic,combs the research situation of inns of court before modern times,translates and definites the basic concepts such as "inns of court" and "legal practitioners".The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter mainly expatiates the historical background of the rise of the inns of court and the introduction of the four inns of court and the inns of chancery.Henry II's judicial reformation had an important influence on the emergence and development of the common law,and the united central judicial organ gave birth to the British legal profession in the Middle Ages.In the early 14th century,the inns of court had not yet assumed the educational and fostering functions of legal practitioners.The second chapter is the focus of this paper.From the middle of the 15th century to the early 17th century,the inns of court was in the mature period of legal education,which formed a training mode of the legal practitioner.This chapter mainly elaborates from four aspects,such as the access condition and composition of the inns of court,the mode and method of the legal education,the education of the university type and the employment flow ofthe apprentices-at-law.The third chapter mainly introduces the main characteristics of the apprenticeship training model of the inns of court and the decline of the apprenticeship system of the inns of court,as well as the cultivation mode of "college system" in Oxford University.Through the comparative study,we can draw the difference between the two in education content,training objectives and many other aspects.The concluding part summrizes the full text,elaborates to the 15th century to 17th century Britain to the legal practitioners training pattern comprehensive understanding as well as to our country contemporary legal profession education reference significance.