History of the Yale Law School: The Tercentennial Lectures
Anthony T. Kronman
The entity that became the Yale Law School started life early in the nineteenth century as a proprietary school, operated as a sideline by a couple of New Haven lawyers. The New Haven school affiliated with Yale in the 1820s, but it remained so frail that in 1845 and again in 1869 the University seriously considered closing it down. From these humble origins, the Yale Law School went on to become the most influential of American law schools. In the later nineteenth century the School instigated the multidisciplinary approach to law that has subsequently won nearly universal acceptance. In the 1930s the Yale Law School became the center of the jurisprudential movement known as legal realism, which has ever since shaped American law. In the second half of the twentieth century Yale brought the study of constitutional and international law to prominence, overcoming the emphasis on private law that had dominated American law schools. By the end of the twentieth century, Yale was widely acknowledged as the nation’s leading law school. |
Contents
Provenance and Perspective Robert Stevens
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The Founding of the Yale Law School John H Langbein
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Yales Distinctive Path in the Later Nineteenth Century John H Langbein
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Yale Law School Faculty in the New Deal and After Robert W Gordon
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The View from Woodbridge Hall 19211963 Gaddis Smith
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