Lawyers’ Empire

W. Wesley Pue is a professor of law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He is past president of the Canadian Law and Society Association, past provost at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and past vice-provost for UBC’s Vancouver campus. His work has been published in law journals around the world, and his book-length publications include Law School: The Story of Legal Education in British Columbia; Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions (co-edited with David Sugarman); Misplaced Traditions: Colonial and Post-colonial Approaches to Legal Professions in British Colonies (co-edited with Robert McQueen); and Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair.

Foreword / David Sugarman

Part 1: History in Professional Apologetics

1 The Use of History in the Development of Lawyers’ Mythologies

2 How “French” Was the English Bar? Barristers and Political Liberalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

3 Law and Colony: Making the Canadian Legal Profession

Part 2: Shaping Minds and Souls: Legal Education

4 Professional Legal Education at Queen’s College, Birmingham, in the 1850s

5 Common Law Legal Education in the Dominion of Canada’s Moral Project

6 British Empire Perspectives on the Case Method of Legal Education: Canada, 1885-1931

Part 3: Ethics, Regulation, and the Business of Law

7 Free Trade in Law: English Barristers, County Courts, and Provincial Practice in the 1850s

8 The End of Free Trade in Law: Discipline at the Inns in the 1860s

9 Regulating Lawyers’ Ethics in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada

Part 4: Challenging the Status Quo – Communists and Liberals

10 Gordon Martin, British Columbia Communist, 1948

11 Liberal Entrepreneurship Thwarted: Charles Rann Kennedy and the Foundations of England’s Modern Bar

Part 5: Dominion and Colonial Lawyering

12 Christ, Manhood, and Empire: The Case Method of Legal Education in Canada, 1885-1931

13 Lawyers’ Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-60: “The Fighting Brigade of the People” / Co-authored with Chidi Oguamanam

Index