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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825160303321

Autore

LaPiana William P.

Titolo

Logic and experience : the origin of modern American legal education / / William P. LaPiana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771989-9

1-280-53477-X

0-19-535995-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

349.73347.3

Soggetti

Law - Study and teaching - United States - History

Case method - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p221-242. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Harvard's Transformation; 3. Antebellum Legal Education; 4. Case Method and Legal Science; 5. Harvard and the Legal World; 6. A New Legal Science; 7. Opposition; 8. Reconciliation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

LaPiana revises our understanding of the origin of modern legal education. He places the changes at Harvard in the context of the broader movements of 19th century intellectual history and provides a new understanding of antebellum legal education.