Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Table of Contents - 01 January 1996 - Volume 4, Issue 18  

Research Article

The Fall and Rise of Doctors' Commons?

Paul Barber

The historic new LLM degree in Canon Law from the University of Wales College of Cardiff means that there now exists a body of Canon Law graduates, the first ‘home-grown’ canonists in this country since the King's Vicar-General. Thomas Cromwell, suppressed the faculties of Canon Law at Cambridge and Oxford in 1535. It was for a gathering of the first such graduates that the original version of this paper was prepared.