Thomas P. Gallanis, University of Iowa College of Law, has posted The Mystery of Old Bailey Counsel, which originally appeared in Cambridge Law Journal 65 (March 2006): 159-173. The article “proffers a hypothesis about a persistent historical mystery: Why did the use of defense lawyers in felony trials at the Old Bailey in London increase so noticeably in the last quarter of the eighteenth century?”
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