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READER INTERNATIONAL LAW [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
  • International Law
OBS

At the Inns of Court in the fifteenth to seventeeth centuries a reader was a senior barrister who gave readings or a series of lectures to student members of Inns in Lent or August vacations.

DEF

Ancients or benchers of the Inn of Court who were selected to give "readings" or dissertations in his Inns.

DEF

In the Inns of Court, a lecturer on law.

OBS

Now only as the title of an honorary office.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
  • Droit international

Spanish

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