Second Assignment

First, a few houskeeping matters:

• Professor Jaszi will be away on Wednesday, January 21; this class has been rescheduled.
• If you have not turned an Information Sheet identifying your contact numbers, externship supervisor, available meeting times, etc., please do so as soon as possible
• On Tuesday the 20th, a list of appointment times for individual supervision meetings will be posted on the small bullentin board adjacent to Professor Jaszi's office. Please check the list to see when you are scheduled to meet Professor Jaszi in the week of Janaury 26 (and thereafter.)
• REMEMBER to start keeping your journal.

Now, the assignment:

When we first meet the legal profession (c. 1200 A.D.) in the readings from J.H. Baker's Introduction to English Legal History, it is already a flourishing fact. Its roots, however, are in the soil of pre-Conquest Britain. How did lawyering get its start?

Your task is to write a brief story (no more than a page) providing an imaginative answer to this question. Please submit your papers by Friday, January 23. You can leave a copy in Professor Jaszi's mailbox or slide it under the door of his office. Or you can fax it to him at (202)274-4130 or e-mail it to pjaszi@wcl.american.edu.

If this assignment has whetted your interest about early English law and legal institutions, you might want to take a look at Professor Robert Palmer's English Legal History materials (from the University of Houston Law School).