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Author:

Coquillette, Daniel R., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89000550

Title:

On the battlefield of merit : Harvard Law School, the first century / Daniel R. Coquillette, Bruce A. Kimball.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 666 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Harvard Law School--History--19th century.
Harvard Law School--History--20th century.
Law--History--Cambridge--Cambridge--History--19th century.
Law--History--Cambridge--Cambridge--History--20th century.
Harvard Law School.
Law--Study and teaching (Higher)
Massachusetts--Cambridge.
1800 - 1999
History.

Other Authors:

Kimball, Bruce A., 1951- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85195463

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. Volume 1 only

Contents:

"Beloved Dean Ames". 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 Langdell, 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".

ISBN:

0674967666
9780674967663

OCLC:

(OCoLC)906121524

LCCN:

2015012162

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)