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041 _aeng
050 1 4 _aKF 292
_bC786o 2015
100 1 _aCoquillette, Daniel R.
245 1 0 _aOn the battlefield of merit :
_bHarvard Law School, the first century /
_cDaniel R. Coquillette, Bruce A. Kimball.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2015.
300 _axi, 666 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tThe 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.
520 _aHarvard Law School pioneered educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students based on academic merit. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid account of a unique legal institution during its first century of influence.
610 2 0 _aHarvard Law School
_xHistory
_y19th century.
610 2 0 _aHarvard Law School
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aLaw
_xStudy and teaching (Higher)
_zMassachusetts
_zCambridge
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 4 _aDerecho
_xEstudio y docencia
_zMassachusetts
_zCambridge
_xHistoria
_ySiglo 19
_9156
650 0 _aLaw
_xStudy and teaching (Higher)
_zMassachusetts
_zCambridge
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aDerecho
_xEstudio y docencia
_zMassachusetts
_zCambridge
_xHistoria
_ySiglo XX
_9156
700 1 _aKimball, Bruce A.
_d1951-
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946 _aSH