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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Histories Of American Law Schools, Alfred S. Konefsky, John Henry Schlegel
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Histories Of American Law Schools, Alfred S. Konefsky, John Henry Schlegel
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David Hoffman's Law School Lectures, 1822-1833, Thomas L. Shaffer
David Hoffman's Law School Lectures, 1822-1833, Thomas L. Shaffer
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The Baltimore lawyer and teacher David Hoffman (1784-1854), the father of American legal ethics, was also the first of the systematic American legal educators. He held one of the first appointments in this country as a university law professor (at the University of Maryland, 1814-43) and wrote the first American outline of the study of law. Joseph Story, in a contemporary review of the 1817 Course, called Hoffman's work "an honour to our country[,] . . . by far the most perfect system for the study of the law that has ever been offered to the public. " Chancellor James …