Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s

by Robert Stevens

Overview

The American law school is both powerful and mystifying. It is assumed to be at the center of professional power in the American establishment. Yet the centrality of law in American life has put the law school at the very core of debates about the role of the profession and about the nature of law itself. In this disarmingly frank social history, Robert Stevens shows how the rise of the law school helped the legal profession emerge as a significant force in American life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469620510
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Series:	Studies in Legal History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	840 KB

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Prologue	xiii
1	Once Upon a Time	3
2	Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools	20
3	Harvard Decrees the Structure and Content	35
4	Harvard Sets the Style	51
5	The Market Explodes	73
6	The Establishment Attempts to Control the Market	92
7	Standoff: Redlich, Reed, and Root	112
8	The Legal Culture and Legal Theory: The Social Sciences and All That	131
9	Intellectual Excitement for the Few: Realism and Reality	155
10	Rising Standards for the Many	172
11	The Rush to Excellence: The Worm's-Eye View	191
12	The Law Schools after 1945: Paradigmatic Structure and Reinvention of the Wheel	205
13	The Profession and the Law Schools: Radicalism, Affluence, and OPEC	232
14	Lawyers, Legal Theory, and Faith	264
	Bibliography	289
	Index	315