TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coquillette,Daniel R.
AU  - Kimball,Bruce A.
TI  - On the battlefield of merit: Harvard Law School, the first century 
SN  - 9780674967663 (alk. paper)
AV  - KF 292 C786o 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Harvard Law School
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Law
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Cambridge
KW  - Derecho
KW  - Estudio y docencia
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo 19
KW  - Siglo XX
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The 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
N2  - Harvard 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
ER  -