Yale Law School and the sixties [[electronic resource] ] : revolt and reverberations / / Laura Kalman

• Autore: Kalman Laura <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.071/17468
• Soggetto topico: Law - Study and teaching - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-447) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Setting the Stage: Law Schools and the Sixties; 2 The Yale Law School on the Eve of the Sixties; 3 The Sixties Come to Yale; 4 Student Power; 5 Alumni Weekend, 1969; 6 Trials and Tribulations; 7 Bringing Us Together Again; 8 After the Fire; 9 The Most Theoretical and Academically Oriented Law School in America; 10 Epilogue; Afterword; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960's who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale's past and with the social climate in which they lived. During a charged moment in the history of the United States, activists challenged senior professors, and the resulting clash pitted young against old in a very human story. By demanding changes in admissions, curriculum, grading, and law practice, Laura Kalman argues, these students transformed Yale Law School and the future of...
• Titolo autorizzato: Yale Law School and the sixties
• ISBN: 0-8078-7688-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451668903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in legal history.