Monuments and memory in early modern England

Is legal biography really legal scholarship?

“…109 Perhaps it is indicative that 'every biography, even the most material in its methods, is in fact a comment on the human spirit itself'. 110 studies of the private lives of lawyers have the potential to shed valuable light on their public acts, their motives and outlook, and that a subject's intellectual legacy is enhanced by an understanding of his character. This paper's argument, in summary, is that by engaging in a detailed study of the personal development of individuals who have shaped the law it is possible to understand more fully their contribution to the course of legal development.…”