History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, Volume 1The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999 - Law |
Contents
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Early American Barristers and Bar Asso | 151 |
The Moot Courts 70 | 70 |
The Library 18331845 77 | 77 |
Courses Growth and Finances 18331845 84 | 84 |
The Transition Period 18451850 95 | 95 |
The Era of Railroad and Corporation Law 133 | 133 |
The AntiSlavery Period I 156 | 156 |
The AntiSlavery Period II 187 | 187 |
The Federal Bar and Law 18301860 225 | 225 |
Early Law Professorships | 165 |
Obstacles and Prejudices | 186 |
Early American Law Books | 203 |
The Bar and the Law 17891815 | 215 |
The Massachusetts Bar 17851815 | 250 |
Joseph Story | 266 |
Isaac Royall and Isaac Parker | 278 |
The Founding | 304 |
Cambridge and Harvard College in 1817 | 316 |
The First Decade | 333 |
The Law Library 18171829 | 371 |
The Bar and the Law 18151830 | 377 |
Nathan Dane and the New Régime | 413 |
The Ashmun Period 18291833 | 433 |
Dane Hall and the Law Library | 462 |
The StoryGreenleaf Period 18331836 | 480 |
The Charles River Bridge Case | 507 |
VOLUME II | 549 |
The StoryGreenleaf Period 18371845 I | 553 |
Reminiscences of Story 47 | 47 |
New Law 18301860 234 | 234 |
The War Period 18601869 262 | 262 |
Parker Parsons and Washburn 302 | 302 |
The Marshall and other Law Clubs 319 | 319 |
The Law Library 18451869 332 | 332 |
Chapter XLInstruction and Finances 18451869 342 | 342 |
Eliot and Langdell 354 | 354 |
The Trial Period 18711881 379 | 379 |
What the Case System Really Is 419 | 419 |
The Langdell Period 18821895 428 | 428 |
Langdell as a Teacher 454 | 454 |
The Ames Period 461 | 461 |
The Library 18691907 483 | 483 |
Influence of the School and of the Case System 496 | 496 |
Appointment of Professors 515 | 515 |
Law School Students of 1862 517 | 517 |
The Law School in the Spanish War 519 | 519 |
Conditions 18701907 520 | 520 |
Harvard Law Association 5 38 | 538 |
The Harvard Law School Association 545 | 545 |
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