Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980sComprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. "the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law, Third Edition (2005) 589 |
Contents
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Harvard Decrees the Structure and Content | 35 |
Harvard Sets the Style | 51 |
The Market Explodes | 73 |
The Establishment Attempts to Control the Market | 92 |
Redlich Reed and Root | 112 |
The Social Sciences and All That | 131 |
Realism and Reality | 155 |
Rising Standards for the Many | 172 |
The WormsEye View | 191 |
Paradigmatic Structure and Reinvention of the Wheel | 205 |
Radicalism Affluence and OPEC | 232 |
Lawyers Legal Theory and Faith | 264 |
Bibliography | 289 |
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