One L"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human."--The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life of a lawyer is as suspenseful, said The New York Times, as "the most absorbing of thrillers." |
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... Langdell , who was dean of Harvard Law School in the late nineteenth century . Dean Langdell is best known as the in- ventor of the Socratic method . " David lowered his hand and looked sincerely at the building . " May he rot in hell ...
... Langdell , who was dean of Harvard Law School in the late nineteenth century . Dean Langdell is best known as the in- ventor of the Socratic method . " David lowered his hand and looked sincerely at the building . " May he rot in hell ...
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... Langdell . " One of Dean Langdell's great contributions to legal educa- tion , " I heard one professor say later in the year , in addressing a group of students , " was to make it cheap . By establishing the Socratic method , he found a ...
... Langdell . " One of Dean Langdell's great contributions to legal educa- tion , " I heard one professor say later in the year , in addressing a group of students , " was to make it cheap . By establishing the Socratic method , he found a ...
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... Langdell , to receive their marks . Many of us could picture the stampede to those rooms and resented having once more to submit to the mass . The registrar later explained that that had simply seemed the fastest means of getting the ...
... Langdell , to receive their marks . Many of us could picture the stampede to those rooms and resented having once more to submit to the mass . The registrar later explained that that had simply seemed the fastest means of getting the ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
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