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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton
Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Must Virtue Be Taught?, Thomas D. Eisele
Must Virtue Be Taught?, Thomas D. Eisele
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
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The Activity Of Being A Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit Of Implications And Possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele
The Activity Of Being A Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit Of Implications And Possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
If law as an activity emerged naively and unpremeditated, as a direction of attention pursued without premonition of what it would lead to, then by now it has hollowed out a character for itself, as Oakeshott says, and has become specified in a "practice." Having acquired this firmness of character, as Oakeshott further says, law may present itself as a puzzle, thus provoking reflection. Thinking about law in this manner or mood is something that I wish to call "philosophy of law," and this is itself an honorable activity with a character and mannerisms of its own.2 In law school, …
Professional Education Then And Now: Law, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
Professional Education Then And Now: Law, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
Other Publications
The Law Department, the third of those mandated by the state statute of 1837, commenced to function on October 3, 1859. In the morning the three-member law faculty met and elected James Valentine Campbell, an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, as its dean. In the afternoon, Campbell delivered an address "On the Study of Law" to a crowd of faculty, students, and visitors in the Ann Arbor Presbyterian Church.
The next morning, 90 students - 60 from Michigan, 29 from other states of the Union, and one from Canada - assembled for the first lecture in the prescribed …