Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Notes
Three Radical Ideas
Historiography and the Citadel
Notes
Transatlantic Legal Culture
The English Heritage
Moots, Bolts, Readings, Yearbooks
Educating the “Other” Lawyers: Solicitors and Attorneys
The Failure of English Institutional Legal Education
Cicero’s Ghost: The Continental Influence
Notes
The Apprenticeship Controversy
Litchfield Law School
Other Proprietary Schools
American Vinerians
Transylvania and David Hoffman
Notes
Chapter 3. Founding a University Professional School of Law
Founders Who Weren’t: Josiah Quincy Jr. and Thomas Pownall
Isaac Royall Jr.: Slave Master, Founder
Founding the Royall Chair
Founding Harvard Law School
Isaac Parker and Asahel Stearns
“Small, Dingy, Inconvenient”
First Students and Course of Study
Decline and Betrayal
Notes
Dane and Story Rebuild the School
John Hooker Ashmun: “Obeyer of Duty”
Joseph Story’s Vision
James Kent
Francis Lieber
Notes
Chapter 5. Joseph Story’s Law School in the Young Republic
The New Finances of a University Law School
Aggressive National Marketing
Curriculum, Scholarship, and Pedagogy
Students
Notes
Chapter 6. The Greenleaf Transition
“What Arm Shall Again Bend His Bow?”
Greenleaf and Charles River Bridge
Greenleaf ’s Progressive Vision
Notes
Chapter 7. The Gathering Storm
Appointing the Triumvirate
Gentlemanly Harmony
The School Divided
Charles Sumner, Abolitionist
The Edward Greely Loring Affair
Notes
Chapter 8. Civil War and Aftermath
“Calm and Dispassionate Harmony” within the School
Parker and Parsons Engage
Students and Alumni in Battle
Reconstruction and Anti-Reconstruction
Waning Days of the Triumvirate
“Battles of Memory”
Notes
Chapter 9. Dean Langdell, First Casebooks, and Justice Holmes
Dean Langdell
Casebooks on Contracts, Sales, and Equity, 1870–1878
Langdell, Holmes, and Contracts, 1879–1881
“Legal Formalism”
“Paradox of Form and Substance”
Notes
Chapter 10. Curricular and Pedagogical Revolution
Sequencing Coursework
“Thorough and Searching” Examinations
Inductive Teaching
The Beginning of Case Method
Inside Langdell’s Classroom, February 1872
February 1872 Course on Contracts, Harvard Law School
Inside Langdell’s Classroom, October– November 1875
29 October 1875, Procedure and Jurisdiction in Equity, Harvard Law School
Notes
Chapter 11. Creating the “New System” of Legal Education
“The Teaching of Law as a Career”
The Problem of Paying Faculty
Academic Merit versus Experience
Refining the Hiring Standard, 1890s
Instituting Policies of Academic Merit
Reforming Grading and Admissions Standards
Earning Revenue and Honor
Harvard Law School Association, 1886
Notes
Chapter 12. The Paths of Four Students
Wigglesworth and Jones
First Year, 1876–77
Second Year, 1877–78
William Russell, Defector
Edmund Parker, the New Generation
Choosing the Path to Honor
Notes
Chapter 13. The “New System,” Triumphant and Invidious
Elite Lawyers and Corporate Practice
Justice and Meritocracy
A Fair Chance for the Girls
Confrontation over Coeducation
“Scholarly Manliness”
“Certain Inferior Colleges”
“Protestantism Applied to Education”
Notes
Chapter 14. Students of Color at Harvard Law School
The First Native American and Latino Students
Asian Students
African American Students, 1870s and 1880s
African American Students, Second Generation
The Unknown
Notes
Chapter 15. “Beloved Dean Ames”
From Prosperity to “Poverty”
Financial Contradictions
“A Decided Understatement of the School’s Immediate Needs”
“Dignity and Earnestness” of Students
Buffers of Anxiety
“Sports” and “Swells”
Employment Prospects
Academic Buffers
The End of a Generation
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
A. Enrollment and Number of LL.B.s Awarded, 1817–1910
B. Number of LL.B.s Awarded, 1820–1910
Statutes of the Royall Professorship, Voted by the Harvard University Corporation, October 11, 1815
Vote to Establish Harvard Law School, Harvard University Corporation, May 14, 1817
Letter of Joseph Story to the Harvard Corporation, May 19, 1829, Stating Terms of the Dane Professorship
Appointments by Year
Succession to the Professorships, 1815–1910
Faculty “Periods”
E. Annual Expenses, Endowment, and Cash Reserve, 1830–1909
F. Largest Endowments of American Universities, 1875–1930
Antebellum and Civil War (1828–1864)
Langdell and Ames (1865–1910)
Published Articles Coauthored with Students
Acknowledgments
Index