Training for the Public Profession of the Law

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Updike, 1921 - 498 Seiten

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Seite 373 - ... Redlich has suggested that a superficial analogy between law and the physical sciences, between the case method and laboratory work, may have facilitated the introduction of the method, but quite apart from this, it was a natural expression of the ideal of thoroughness that dominated all Langdell's work, that he should have aspired to take his students to the gushing well-springs of the law, instead of to the meandering streams and lazy pools into which its waters had been collected.
Seite 130 - Under the ambiguous title of Legal Outlines, Vol. I, he published the substance of his lectures upon his first title, in 1829; this was reprinted in England, with slight changes, as Legal Outlines, 1836. In 1846, as an advertisement for his Philadelphia
Seite 92 - The decision pointed out the distinction between the right to be admitted and the right to practice, and confirmed the power of the legislature to determine who should exercise the admitting power.
Seite 90 - ... territory, not inconsistent with this Constitution, shall continue and remain in full effect until repealed by the Legislature, except so much of the act entitled "an act regulating the admission and practice of attorneys and counselorsat-law...
Seite 126 - to furnish a rational and useful entertainment to gentlemen of all professions, and in particular to assist in forming the Legislator, the Merchant, and the...
Seite 19 - WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME.
Seite 387 - Society had established its lectures for law clerks in 1833, and Attorney-General Benjamin F. Butler had published his Plan for the Organization of a Law Faculty in the University of the City of New York in 1835, the idea may be said to have been in a sense self-conscious and standardized. In this thoughtful study of the problem of legal education, Butler distinguishes sharply between country and city schools. The law school as an office adjunct he conceives to be the type suited to the city.
Seite 180 - The attendance at all these graduate law courses was, however, very small. The chief interest of this early movement for postgraduate work in law lies in the fact that it failed, and that the lesson of its failure seems to have been lost upon the present generation.4 1 Following Lieber's death in 1872, the announcement that "a third year or postgraduate course has also now been organized for those students who may desire to pursue their studies beyond the regular course.
Seite 27 - ... the universities in providing systematic instruction. In general, one agency or the other operates alone in each province, instead of both concurrently as in England. In the Province of Ontario the strong old Law Society of Upper Canada, which has occupied its own building, Osgoode Hall, since 1832, inaugurated lectures in 1855 and a law school in 1873.1 Since 1889, by a quite remarkable departure from prevailing custom, attendance at this school has been compulsory upon all who desire to be...
Seite 147 - Story was to confine himself to law "equally in force in all branches of our Federal Republic," supplemented, if deemed advisable, by "state law useful in more states than one, law clearly distinguished from that state law which is in force, and of use, in a single state only.