[2] In the founding charter of Trinity College, Elizabeth I granted the university the right to award degrees in omnibus artibus et facultatibus, including law.
[3] Even in early regulations, there was a professor of civil law who was responsible for the exams and the training standards.
On 4 November 1668, a professorship was newly established as the Regius Professor of Civil and Canon Law and supported with funds from the Act of Settlement with 40 pounds sterling per year.
[5] Notable exceptions were people such as Francis Stoughton Sullivan, who later became the first Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law, or Arthur Brown, who also campaigned politically for the goals of the university.
[5] This chair would be continuously occupied until it was discontinued in 1934 and replaced by The Professorship of Laws.