Law School
Author | : Robert Bocking Stevens |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781584771999 |
ISBN-13 | : 1584771992 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Comprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. "the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law, Third Edition (2005) 589