A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450 [1929]

Mr. Cohen has made a very complete study of the literature which bears upon the history of the legal profession from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1450-that is down to the time of Fortescue, whose chapters in the De Laudibus are the first connected account of its grades and its organization. He has also supplemented the English literature of his subject by references to the contemporary organization of the legal profession in other European countries. He has thus collected and arranged valuable materials which will be useful to all historians of English law.
William S. Holdsworth
Law Quarterly Review 45 (1929):398