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On the battlefield of merit : Harvard Law School, the first century / Daniel R. Coquillette, Bruce A. Kimball.
LIBRA KF292.H34 C67 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coquillette, Daniel R., author.
- Kimball, Bruce A., 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harvard Law School--History--19th century.
- Harvard Law School.
- Harvard Law School--History--20th century.
- Law--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History--19th century.
- Law.
- Law--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History--20th century.
- Law--Study and teaching (Higher).
- History.
- Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 666 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674967663
- 0674967666
- OCLC:
- 906121524
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