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- Title
What's Wrong with Langdell's Method, and What to Do About it.
- Authors
Rubin, Edward
- Abstract
The article centers on the lack of change in legal education in the U.S. It discusses common law, first describing its importance in the legal system of the 1870s and its subsequent decline as a result of the administrative state. It then addresses the claim of Christopher Columbus Langdell that law is a form of natural science, and contrasts this contention with the currently accepted view that law is more closely related to the social sciences. Moreover, it details Langdell's conception of education, comparing it with the educational thinking that developed in the succeeding decades. Some preliminary suggestions for a law school curriculum that would be relevant to the 21st-century practice of law are presented.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGAL education; LAW school curriculum; LAW schools; EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATIONAL innovations; CURRICULUM change; JUSTICE administration; COMMON law; CUSTOMARY law; PRACTICE of law; LANGDELL, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1826-1906
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p609
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article