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- Title
The Geologic Strata of the Law School Curriculum.
- Authors
Gordon, Robert W.
- Abstract
The article describes the way the U.S. modern legal education, with its characteristic case law method, originated at Harvard Law School in the 1870s, the way it became dominant and the way it preserved itself by resisting changes that were occurring in society at large. It outlines how the basic structure and content of the modern American law school curriculum came into being and what were the main competitors that curriculum displaced. It also accounts some of the ways in which the curriculum's basic structure and content have changed since its inception. Moreover, some of its main sources and motors of change are keyed out.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW school curriculum; LAW schools; LEGAL education; CURRICULUM; CURRICULUM change; CURRICULUM planning; COURSE content (Education); HISTORY
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p339
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article