Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education

by William P. LaPiana

The nineteenth century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the nineteenth century the modern legal education system, developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard University, was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079353
• ISBN13: 9780195079357
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"