Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and corporate forms of sociability in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Abstract

In this essay we analyze the legal schools in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. Each one has got different tools to join together the minority bourgeois intellectuals groups, who will motivate the social change. Schools of law –Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislative– are encouraged by intellectual conversation, which will enable European citizens consolidate themselves as representatives of cultural reference against the noble estate tight. In order to gain access, it is required different steps or initiation rituals that discern the social intellectual level. Nevertheless, we try to bring culture to all European citizens, promoting new areas of sociability.