Universities

-remains a stronghold of the Orange and Traditional movements for decades after the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9)

-because there's no way for British government to rig things in its favor

-though British government formally obliterates religious tests entirely they continue to exist informally in this university

-Oxford eventually falls behind due to lack of acceptance of modern technical university values

-early on after British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) it gets controlled by central government through mass granting of ceremonial doctorates

-forcibly separated from the Church of England

The University of Inns of Court, usually known as Inns University or simply Inns, is a university of law in the British Isles, and it is the premier university of law in the nation.

This institution is ultimately rooted in the medieval institutions of the Inns of Courts and the affiliated Inns of Chancery, guilds where students were taught the law of England and certified to serve as lawyers. These were collegiate institutions where students were educated in the practical customary law of England, in a field which excluded theory; this is likely partially responsible for the perception of Anglo-American law as based in precedents rather than on theory and set principles. Initially, students first learned at the Inns of Chancery and then moved to the Inns of Court, but this process was discontinued by the seventeenth century. During the Puritan Revolution the Inns lost many students, but they nevertheless regained their stature after the Stuart Restoration; it was only during the eighteenth century that they gradually deteriorated. Of the Inns of Court, only Lincoln's Inn gave a comprehensive legal education, and the Inns of Chancery grew so totally and utterly detached from teaching the law that they became little more than places for lodging and food.

After the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), reform of the law quickly became a goal of the government, and under Justice Minister Henry Brougham, in the 1830s, various law codes were passed which not only dramatically reformed and codified the law, but also introduced certain legal principles for judges to consult when making their decisions. While this recourse to principles was not new - Lord Mansfield (1795-1793) also introduced legal principles into English law - they now covered most of British law. This served to further weaken education of the law within the Inns of Court. As word came of this bad education of the law into Parliament, it constituted a committee to monitor the education of the law, and in 1836 reported that either its education was severely bad or non-existent, depending on the Inn. This influenced the government to pass the Inns of Courts Act 1837, which constituted the Inns into a single university - though they kept their property and conti^{[ed to hand out certifications for the bar, they were to be affiliated with the university. [^1]} include-fn-[ed to hand out certifications for the bar, they were to be affiliated with the university. [^1] More controversial was how neither students nor professors would have to pass religious tests, in the same impulse of the era which resulted in the establishment of the non-denominational London University and the eradication of religious tests for students in Oxford and Cambridge.

Over the following decades, the institution of Inns University resulted in the Inns themselves hosting lecturers from the university, while increasingly the Inns grew to resemble dormitories rather than educational institutions. Furthermore, law was increasingly taught at other universities, though law degrees must be certified by an Inn of Court to this day. The education of law grew increasingly complicated over time.

Today Inns is a vast, diffuse university. It exists primarily in London, but there is one campus located in Dublin, owing to the historic institution of King's Inns there in 1541. Many great lawyers and politicians come from the university, including seven Prime Ministers and numerous other chief magistrates and heads of government all around the world.

-founded by radicals soon after British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9)

-under Benthamite values

-soon afterwards a number of dissenting academies become affiliated and merge into it

-founded by Radicals soon after founding of London University

-as a nonconformist college in middle finger towards clerical establishment

-founded during Heads of British Isles > 1840-1844 Lord John Russell (Moderate) era

-as more conformist university

-in London

-continues affiliation with Church of England in modern British Isles too

-in Birmingham

-in honor of Joseph Priestley and his Lunar Society

1. In OTL, a similar proposal came in 1854 and a few other times in the nineteenth century, but they were refused. Instead, legal education flowed out of the Inns, and today the Inns of Court serve as lawyers' associations. ⮐