# Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond

- Institution: Gresham College
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/dickenss-law-makers-and-law-breakers-barnards-inn-and-beyond)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Dickens had no love for lawyers. He had been trained briefly at Gray's Inn and later worked as a law-reporter. Both experiences seem to have left him jaded as the long line of distasteful lawyers in his novels - from Dodson and Fogg onwards - clearly indicates. At the same time he was well aware that close to the 'nest of lawyers' (as he called the Inns) lay some of London's worst slums and criminal haunts.

## Lectures

1. [Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/dickenss-law-makers-and-law-breakers-barnards-inn-and-beyond/b81a3b3eb8d5) (YouTube)