On the battlefield of merit : Harvard Law School, the first century / Daniel R. Coquillette, Bruce A. Kimball.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xi, 666 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674089068
- 0674089065
- Harvard Law School -- History -- 19th century
- Harvard Law School -- History -- 20th century
- Harvard Law School
- Law -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century
- Law -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 20th century
- LAW -- Essays
- LAW -- General Practice
- LAW -- Jurisprudence
- LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism
- LAW -- Practical Guides
- LAW -- Reference
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Law -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
- 1800-1999
- 340.071/17444 23
- KF292.H34 C67 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The English and continental roots of American legal education -- American antecedents of Harvard Law School -- Founding a university professional school of law -- The school saved -- Joseph Story's law school in the young republic -- The Greenleaf transition -- The gathering storm -- Civil war and aftermath -- Dean Langdall, first casebooks, and Justice Holmes -- Curricular and pedagogical revolution -- Creating the "new system" of legal education -- The paths of four students -- The "new system," triumphant and invidious -- Students of color at Harvard Law School -- Beloved Dean Ames.
Harvard Law School pioneered educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students based on academic merit. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid account of a unique legal institution during its first century of influence.
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