The intellectual sword : Harvard Law School, the second century /

"By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came to the brink of financial failure and lagged its peers in scholarly innovation. It also honed an aggressive intellect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kimball, Bruce A., 1951- (Autor), Coquillette, Daniel R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Harvard Law School > History > 20th century.
Harvard Law School
1900-1999
Law > Study and teaching (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 20th century.
EDUCATION > History.
Law > Study and teaching (Higher)
Massachusetts > Cambridge
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The tragedy of Ezra Thayer, 1900-1915
  • The centennial fundraising fiasco, 1914-1920
  • The perilous trials of Roscoe Pound and the faculty, 1916-1927
  • "Desirable" and undesirable students, 1916-1936
  • "The school must live from hand to mouth," 1919-1930s
  • Legal realism and Pound's decline, 1928-1931
  • New Deal, Nazis, and faculty revolt, 1931-1936
  • The "meteoric" rise and fall of James Landis, 1937-1946
  • Harvard, Columbia, and the "major professional schools," 1890-1945
  • Griswold brings order to the "madhouse," 1946-1950s
  • McCarthyism and the Fifth Amendment, 1950s
  • The admissions revolution, 1946-1967
  • "The school has not grown soft," 1946-1967
  • "A vast expansion" in spending, 1946-1967
  • The Harvard-Yale Game, 1900-1970
  • Derek Bok's tumultuous interlude, 1968-1970
  • "An especially difficult period": Albert Sacks, 1971-1981
  • Academics and students, 1970s and 1980s
  • Faculty discord, 1970s and 1980s.

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