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Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The intellectual history of the University of Michigan Law School is recorded in the titles of contributions to legal literature published from its organization in October 1859 to the present. These writings demonstrate a continued commitment to legal scholarship and illustrate both the changing patterns in the subjects chosen for research and writing, and the methods utilized for treatment of the subjects.
Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman
Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law School: Legal Education in America From the 1850s to the 1980s by Robert Stevens
Dean Bates And The Michigan Law School, Edwin C. Goddard
Dean Bates And The Michigan Law School, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
From its opening in October, 1859, the Law School of the University of Michigan has been fortunate in the continuity of the service of the members of its faculty. The original faculty consisted of that remarkable trio, James V. Campbell, Charles I. Walker and Thomas M. Cooley. Instruction was given by lecture, and almost continuously for twenty-five years those three continued to expound the principles of the law to the students who flocked to the school.