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A Secretary's Absence For A Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
A Secretary's Absence For A Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
Scholarly Articles
The May 5, 1893 letter from Justice Horace Gray to Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller touches upon several different strands of Supreme Court history. To place the letter in context, we need to briefly discuss the creation of the law clerk position as well as the different functions of this first generation of law clerks. And we need to talk about the untimely death of a young Harvard Law School graduate named Moses Day Kimball.
History As Ideology In The Basic Property Course, Gregory S. Alexander
History As Ideology In The Basic Property Course, Gregory S. Alexander
Gregory S Alexander
Why has history played such a prominent role in the basic property course in the twentieth century? Such a loaded question requires some explanation. Legal history is doubtless used in all the first-year common-law courses, but I have the impression that since Langdell's time it has been more conspicuous in property than in the other basic courses. At least let us provisionally accept this rather dogmatic assertion in order to examine the more interesting questions: what function has the historical perspective served in property, and what other function might history serve in the course?
History As Ideology In The Basic Property Course, Gregory S. Alexander
History As Ideology In The Basic Property Course, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Why has history played such a prominent role in the basic property course in the twentieth century? Such a loaded question requires some explanation. Legal history is doubtless used in all the first-year common-law courses, but I have the impression that since Langdell's time it has been more conspicuous in property than in the other basic courses. At least let us provisionally accept this rather dogmatic assertion in order to examine the more interesting questions: what function has the historical perspective served in property, and what other function might history serve in the course?