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The Geologic Strata Of The Law School Curriculum, Robert W. Gordon
The Geologic Strata Of The Law School Curriculum, Robert W. Gordon
Vanderbilt Law Review
The modest aim of this piece is to supply some historical background to the other contributions to this Symposium. The modern American law school curriculum is the product of a few but critical choices of design, some of them over a century old. In this Article, I seek to (1) outline how the basic structure and content of the modern American law school curriculum came into being and what were the main competitors that curriculum displaced; (2) describe some of the ways in which the curriculum's basic structure and content have changed since its inception; and (3) point to some …
Professor Morgan And The University Casebook Series, Harry W. Jones
Professor Morgan And The University Casebook Series, Harry W. Jones
Vanderbilt Law Review
A championship fight professor of Procedure and Evidence must be jack of all legal trades as well as master of his own. The flow of classroom discussion in a good Evidence course does not respect the channels set by law school curriculum divisions. Professor Edmund M. Morgan, as fully as any law teacher of our time, embodies this ideal of the Compleat Lawyer. His students--and most of the leading scholars in his field proclaim themselves to be students of Eddie Morgan in one sense or another--have long been dazzled by the range of Professor Morgan's legal knowledge and by the …