Hail! Langdell!
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22934973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul D Carrington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 03 |
| Pages | 691-760 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Social Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-6546 • E-ISSN: 1747-4469 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-4469.1995.tb00784.x |
| OpenAlex | W4212834494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
Christopher Columbus Langdell (whose career ended a century ago) achieved fame by devising the case method to turn law into a laboratory science divorced from politics and to make his course so rigorous that it would attract able students seeking to test and prove themselves with the severest academic challenge. The method was adapted by many law teachers who were unpersuaded by the idea of law as apolitical science. These included Langdell's colleagues, James Bradley Thayer and John Chipman Gray, who shared Holmes's disdain for the theory. The method survived and flourished despite its theoretical weakness because it worked in practice. No mere rite of passage, it developed numerous traits and skills useful to lawyers, it revealed a true picture of the political and atomized nature of American law, and it nurtured many of the civic virtues that American law teachers have sought to nurture since the time of George Wythe.
Art history · George (robot) · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence in Law · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
The New Legal Realism and The Realist View of Law
Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”
Langdell Laughs
The Langdell Problem
Law and the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century American Universities
New Legal Realism
Framing the Field of Law's Disciplinary Encounters
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |