The Legal Education Association, of which Sir Roundell Palmer is
the President, and Mr. Quain, Q.C., has as yet been the chief working member, have published a general proposal, in which, 'without in any manner committing themselves to details, they propound,—(1), The establishment of a Law University for the education of students intended for the profession of the Law ; and (2), the placing of the admission to both branches of the profession on the basis of a combined test of collegiate edutation and exami- nation by a public board of examiners. They suggest that the
government of this University maybe entrusted to a senate, elected by the four Inns of Court, the Universities of Orford, Cambridge, and London, and the Incorporated Law Society, and some of the Provincial Law Societies. A higher examination teat will be applied to Bar-students than to those intended for the other branch of the profession ; and, in point of fact, the result will be that the University will confer two degrees, the degree of barrister-at-lay, and the degree of attorney or solicitor. Barristerhood is already, as far as antiquarian derivation goes, a law degree, though con- femble on candidates who have passed no examination.
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