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423 TEACHING THE IUS HODIERNUM: LEGAL EDUCATION OF ADVOCATES IN THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS (1575-1800) by MARGREET AHSMANN (Leiden) dedicated to Robert Feenstra From 1572 the Republic of the Seven United Provinces began to take shape in the Northern Netherlands. This was a confederation without central legislative authority and without a common highest court of law; as before, the law remained different from province to province. An academic training in law became possible in the province of Holland in 1575 when Leiden University opened its doors'. It was soon followed, in 1585, by the province of Friesland with the foundation of a University at Franeker and, in 1614, by the province of Groningen ('Town and territory of Groningen') which founded its academy in Groningen. A fourth possibility was at Utrecht, where, in 1636, only two years after its foundation, the Athenaeum was given university status. A similar procedure was followed at Harderwijk in the province of Guelders. Here the Athenaeum (created in 1600) became a Uni- versity in 1648. Apart from these five full universities several other university- level institutions briefly provided legal training in the 17th century: the University of the District of Nijmegen (1656-1679) and the so-called
The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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