On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century

The English and continental roots of American legal education --American antecedents of Harvard Law School --Founding a university professional school of law --The school saved --Joseph Story's law school in the young republic --The Greenleaf transition --The gathering storm --Civil war and aftermath --Dean Langdall, first casebooks, and Justice Holmes --Curricular and pedagogical revolution --Creating the "new system" of legal education --The paths of four students --The "new system," triumphant and invidious --Students of color at Harvard Law School --Beloved Dean Ames.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Introduction -- Three Radical Ideas -- Historiography and the Citadel -- Notes -- Chapter 1. The English and Continental Roots of American Legal Education -- Transatlantic Legal Culture -- The English Heritage -- Moots, Bolts, Readings, Yearbooks -- Educating the "Other" Lawyers: Solicitors and Attorneys -- The Failure of English Institutional Legal Education -- Cicero's Ghost: The Continental Influence -- Notes -- Chapter 2. American Antecedents of Harvard Law School -- The Apprenticeship Controversy -- Litchfield Law School -- Other Proprietary Schools -- American Vinerians -- Transylvania and David Hoffman -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Founding a University Professional School of Law -- Founders Who Weren't: Josiah Quincy Jr. and Thomas Pownall -- Isaac Royall Jr.: Slave Master, Founder -- Founding the Royall Chair -- Founding Harvard Law School -- Isaac Parker and Asahel Stearns -- "Small, Dingy, Inconvenient" -- First Students and Course of Study -- Decline and Betrayal -- Notes -- Chapter 4. The School Saved -- Dane and Story Rebuild the School -- John Hooker Ashmun: "Obeyer of Duty" -- Joseph Story's Vision -- James Kent -- Francis Lieber -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Joseph Story's Law School in the Young Republic -- The New Finances of a University Law School -- Aggressive National Marketing -- Curriculum, Scholarship, and Pedagogy -- Students -- Notes -- Chapter 6. The Greenleaf Transition -- "What Arm Shall Again Bend His Bow?" -- Greenleaf and Charles River Bridge -- Greenleaf 's Progressive Vision -- Notes -- Chapter 7. The Gathering Storm -- Appointing the Triumvirate -- Gentlemanly Harmony -- The School Divided -- Charles Sumner, Abolitionist -- The Edward Greely Loring Affair -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Civil War and Aftermath.