Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This Article seeks to remind lawyers of the important duty to uphold the law, and how that was shown through the actions of several English and British attorneys from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Beginning with Sir Thomas More, considered as a secular person in this Article, and his refusal to go against what he believed to be the law, to Sir Edward Coke, whose legal judgments assisted early Americans, and ending with Sir William Blackstone, whose careful thinking paved the way for the American legal system. This semi-biographical Article relays the legal changes occurring during the time periods mentioned and how those changes were met by the aforementioned individuals.
First Page
227
Last Page
237
Publication Date
5-1-2020
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Darsie, Heather R.
(2020)
"Our English Legal Forebearers and Their Contributions to the Practice of Law and American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, and Sir William Blackstone,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 40:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Suggested Citation
Heather R. Darsie, Our English Legal Forebearers and Their Contributions to the Practice of Law and American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, and Sir William Blackstone, 40 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 227 (2020).
