Law, considered as a science, consists of certain principles or doctrines. To have such a mastery of these as to be able to apply them with constant facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs, is what constitutes a true lawyer;... Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting - Seite 43von Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1919Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1921 - 804 Seiten
...working system, or to borrow a phrase from Dean Langdell, "to possess such a mastery of legal principles as to be able to apply them with constant facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of humaii •OW Holmes: "Collected Le^al Papers," 36. affairs. "3 The importance of the function he performs... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1894 - 414 Seiten
...Professor's Select Cases on Contracts, the first of a series published for the use of the School. " Law, considered as a science, consists of certain...should be the business of every earnest student of the law. Each of these doctrines has arrived at its present state by slow degrees ; in other words,... | |
| Reinhold Klotz - 1916 - 706 Seiten
...principles or doctrines. To have such a mastery of these as to be able to apply them with consistent facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs is what constitutes a true lawyer. . . . Moreover the number of fundamental legal doctrines is much less than is commonly supposed ; the... | |
| 1921 - 824 Seiten
...working system, or to borrow a phrase from Dean Langdell, "to possess such a mastery of legal principles as to be able to apply them with constant facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs."3 The importance of the function he performs has been well set forth in a recent report of... | |
| 1927 - 236 Seiten
...his own words as he did in 1871 in the preface to his Selection o~f Cases on the Law of Contracts:* "Law, considered as a science, consists of certain...should be the business of every earnest student of the law" .... "Moreover, the number of fundamental legal doctrines is much less than is commonly supposed;... | |
| Robert Bocking Stevens - 2001 - 352 Seiten
...learned by serving an apprenticeship to one who practices." Langdell, however, had already concluded that "law, considered as a science, consists of certain...affairs, is what constitutes a true lawyer . . . and the shortest and the best, if not the only way of mastering the doctrine effectually is by studying... | |
| G. Edward White - 2003 - 424 Seiten
...was intended to enable students "[t]o have ... a mastery of ... [certain principles and doctrines so] as to be able to apply them with constant facility...certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs. . . ." 36 This "mastery" came from the identification of "fundamental legal doctrines" within cases... | |
| Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 Seiten
...itself into it). Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power "Law," said Christopher Columbus Langdell, "considered as a science, consists of certain principles...skein of human affairs is what constitutes a true lawyer."1 Langdell's argument was twofold; his conceptualization of law as a science was only the first.... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1989 - 316 Seiten
...method which focused upon the mastery of certain principles and doctrines that could in turn be applied with constant facility and certainty to the "ever-tangled skein of human affairs." Harvard was the leader in this area, under the deanship of Christopher Columbus Langdell. 20 The case... | |
| James Anthony Whitson - 1991 - 328 Seiten
...rationality. Levinson (1982, pp. 373-4) describes such an approach as seen in Langdell's work on contracts: 'Law, . . . considered as a science, consists of certain...human affairs is what constitutes a true lawyer.' [*] . . . For Langdell law was essentially a literary enterprise, a science of extracting meaning from... | |
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