| Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s [1983] Contributor(s): Stevens, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584771992 ISBN-13: 9781584771999 Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Education - Law | Legal History - Law | Educational Law & Legislation |
| Dewey: 340.071 |
| LCCN: 2001041309 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.52 lbs) 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Comprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. "the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law, Third Edition (2005) 589 |