John H. Langbein (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300095647
- eISBN:
- 9780300128765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300095647.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter traces the origins of Yale Law School, which goes back to the earliest days of the nineteenth century, when there was as yet no university legal education. The discussions include the ...
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This chapter traces the origins of Yale Law School, which goes back to the earliest days of the nineteenth century, when there was as yet no university legal education. The discussions include the reasons behind Yale's long hesitance about sustaining a law school; how young lawyers were trained in a world without law schools; eighteenth-century English jurist William Blackstone's objection to the underlying premise of apprenticeship training; and the shift from the apprenticeship system to university legal education in the United States.Less
This chapter traces the origins of Yale Law School, which goes back to the earliest days of the nineteenth century, when there was as yet no university legal education. The discussions include the reasons behind Yale's long hesitance about sustaining a law school; how young lawyers were trained in a world without law schools; eighteenth-century English jurist William Blackstone's objection to the underlying premise of apprenticeship training; and the shift from the apprenticeship system to university legal education in the United States.
Anthony T. Kronman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300095647
- eISBN:
- 9780300128765
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300095647.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
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 ...
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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. The chapters in this collection trace these notable developments. They originated as a lecture series convened to commemorate the tercentenary of Yale University. A group of scholars assembled to explore the history of the School from the earliest days down to modern times. The book preserves the format of the original lectures, supported with full scholarly citations.Less
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. The chapters in this collection trace these notable developments. They originated as a lecture series convened to commemorate the tercentenary of Yale University. A group of scholars assembled to explore the history of the School from the earliest days down to modern times. The book preserves the format of the original lectures, supported with full scholarly citations.
John H. Langbein (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300095647
- eISBN:
- 9780300128765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300095647.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter discusses the history of the Yale Law School across the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It first explores the text-and-recitation system, which was the School's main method of ...
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This chapter discusses the history of the Yale Law School across the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It first explores the text-and-recitation system, which was the School's main method of instruction. It then focuses on the two episodes of near collapse in 1845 and again in 1869, when Yale considered washing its hands of this seedy little trade school, which the University had effectively franchised to operate under the Yale name. It concludes with a look at the years immediately following the 1869 rescue, when a remarkable change in the University's attitude toward the Law School took place. Yale ceased distancing itself from the School and began instead to bolster it, encouraging the Law School to develop an ethos that it has manifested ever since.Less
This chapter discusses the history of the Yale Law School across the middle decades of the nineteenth century. It first explores the text-and-recitation system, which was the School's main method of instruction. It then focuses on the two episodes of near collapse in 1845 and again in 1869, when Yale considered washing its hands of this seedy little trade school, which the University had effectively franchised to operate under the Yale name. It concludes with a look at the years immediately following the 1869 rescue, when a remarkable change in the University's attitude toward the Law School took place. Yale ceased distancing itself from the School and began instead to bolster it, encouraging the Law School to develop an ethos that it has manifested ever since.
Anthony T. Kronman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300095647
- eISBN:
- 9780300128765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300095647.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This book emerged from a lecture series on the history of the Yale Law School, sponsored by the school in the spring of 2001 as part of Yale University's tercentennial celebrations. A small group of ...
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This book emerged from a lecture series on the history of the Yale Law School, sponsored by the school in the spring of 2001 as part of Yale University's tercentennial celebrations. A small group of historians were invited to address an aspect of the Law School's history of particular interest to him or her, giving some attention to chronological coverage. The goal was to illuminate a few specific episodes in the history of the Yale Law School in a manner that would sharpen our curiosity about the rest and remind us of how little we really know about the school's career and the evolution of its modern personality. The six provocative chapter gathered in this volume may serve as a tantalizing prelude to the comprehensive history of the Yale Law School that remains to be constructed.Less
This book emerged from a lecture series on the history of the Yale Law School, sponsored by the school in the spring of 2001 as part of Yale University's tercentennial celebrations. A small group of historians were invited to address an aspect of the Law School's history of particular interest to him or her, giving some attention to chronological coverage. The goal was to illuminate a few specific episodes in the history of the Yale Law School in a manner that would sharpen our curiosity about the rest and remind us of how little we really know about the school's career and the evolution of its modern personality. The six provocative chapter gathered in this volume may serve as a tantalizing prelude to the comprehensive history of the Yale Law School that remains to be constructed.
