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By the mid-fourteenth century, professional associations of canon lawyers (legal advocates in Christian ecclesiastical courts, which dealt with cases involving marriage, inheritance, and other issues) had appeared in most of Western Europe, and a body of professional standards had been defined for them. ███

Intro topic · Professional associations of canon lawyers in the mid-14th century

These are lawyers in Christian religious courts. They had professional standards and were common in Western Europe.

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Puzzling phenomenon · The associations didn't have big role in enforcing professional standards

Some even tried to stop efforts to enforce standards (example: Florentine guild).

Two potential hypotheses · Lawyers almost never violated standards, or disciplinary mechanisms were inefficient

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Author's perspective · Disciplinary mechanisms were probably inefficient

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Support 1 · English civil courts (non-religious) have much more disciplinary action

Those courts had ethical standards similar to the religious courts. So, disparity in number of disciplinary actions is probably due to religious courts' inefficient enforcement mechanisms. It's unlikely that religious lawyers were simply much more unethical than civil lawyers.

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Support 2 · Lots of complaints by church authorities about unethical lawyers and inefficient disciplinary system

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Result of complaints (related to support 2) · Induced religious lawyers to defend themselves from criticism

Complaints may have encouraged lawyers to form professional associations and to de-prioritize disciplining fellow lawyers.

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Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

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The Council of Basil declared that canon lawyers failed to adhere to standards of conduct set forth in papal constitutions.This doesn’t involve an example of what’s “needed” to establish professional standards.

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The purpose isn’t to contrast different reactions to canon lawyer misconduct. The purpose is to show that, contrary to one theory, canon lawyers did commonly violate conduct rules.

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This captures the purpose, which is to support the view that violations of canon law were not uncommon. This is part of why the author rules out the first potential explanation for the lack of disciplinary enforcement among canon lawyer associations.

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The Council of Basil declared that canon lawyers failed to adhere to standards of conduct set forth in papal constitutions. This fact is presented to establish that canon lawyers did violate rules. It’s not presented to show how rules are established.

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