Logic and Experience : The Origin of Modern American Legal Education.
Title:
Logic and Experience : The Origin of Modern American Legal Education.
Author:
LaPiana, William P.
ISBN:
9780195359954
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Harvard's Transformation -- Appointing a Dean -- Developing a Law School -- Birth of the Case Method -- 3. Antebellum Legal Education -- A Science of Principles -- A Practical Science of Procedure -- Education in Legal Science -- 4. Case Method and Legal Science -- A Science of Narrow Rules -- A Technical Science of Contracts and Equity -- Changes in Procedure and Legal Thought -- 5. Harvard and the Legal World -- The Struggle for Standards in New York -- Case Method Comes to Columbia -- Case Method and Practice -- 6. A New Legal Science -- Fact-Based Legal Science -- Harvard Teachers and Positive Law -- 7. Opposition -- The Case Lawyer -- The Evils of Positivism -- 8. Reconciliation -- The Spread of the Case Method -- The Failure of Sociological Jurisprudence -- The American Law Institute -- The Coming of Realism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promoted as the best preparation for admission to the bar. William P. LaPiana provides an in-depth study of the intellectual history of the transformation of American legal education during this period. In the process, he offers a revisionist portrait of Langdell, the Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1900, and the earliest proponent for the modern method of legal education, as well as portraying for the first time the opposition to the changes at Harvard.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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