Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s / Edition 1

by Robert Stevens

Overview

In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the past two decades, both students and the practicing profession have questioned this authority. He also examines the implications of the "legal revolution" and new opportunities for women and minorities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807841754
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	02/01/1987
Series:	Studies in Legal History
Edition description:	1
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.79(d)

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