The Teaching of English Law at Harvard

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Harvard Law Review, 1900 - 19 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 7 - To accomplish these objects, ... it was indispensable to establish at least two things: first, that law is a science; secondly, that all the available materials of that science are contained in printed books.
Σελίδα 7 - Universities, as deeply, by like methods, and with as thorough a concentration and life-long devotion of all the powers of a learned and studious faculty. If our law be not a science worthy and requiring to be thus studied and thus taught, then, as a distinguished lawyer has remarked, " A University will best consult its own dignity in declining to teach it.
Σελίδα 2 - it constitutes the most perfect collection of the legal records of the English people to be found in any part of the English-speaking world...
Σελίδα 7 - I wish to emphasize the fact that a teacher of law should be a person who accompanies his pupils on a road which is new to them, but with which he is well acquainted from having often travelled it before.
Σελίδα 7 - What qualifies a person, therefore, to teach law is not experience in the work of a lawyer's office, not experience in dealing with men, not experience in the trial or argument of causes — not experience, in short, in using law, but experience in learning law...
Σελίδα 7 - Again, law can only be learned and taught in a university by means of printed books. If, therefore, there are other and better means of teaching and learning law than printed books, or if printed books can only be used to the best advantage in connection with other means, for instance, the work of a lawyer's office, or attendance upon the proceedings of courts of justice, it must be confessed that such means can not be provided by a university.
Σελίδα 7 - ... it. If it be a science, it will scarcely be disputed that it is one of the greatest and most difficult of sciences, and that it needs all the light that the most enlightened seat of learning can throw upon...
Σελίδα 3 - America, finally dispelled the inveterate delusion that law is a handicraft to be practised by rule of thumb and learned only by apprenticeship in chambers or offices ; they have convinced the leaders of the Bar that the Common Law of England is a science, that it rests on valid grounds of reason, which can be so explained by men who have mastered its principles as to be thoroughly understood by students whose aim is success in the practice of the law.
Σελίδα 7 - ... law as a science must resort to these ultimate sources; and if the only assistance which it is possible for the learner to receive is such as can be afforded by teachers who have traveled the same road before him, then a university, and a university alone, can furnish every possible facility for teaching and learning law.
Σελίδα 2 - It constitutes the most perfect collection of the legal records of the English people to be found in any part of the Englishspeaking world. We possess nothing like it in England. In the library at Harvard you will find the works of every English and American writer on law; there stand not only all the American reports — and these include, as well as the reports of the Federal courts, reports from every one of the forty-five states of the Union — but also complete collections of our English reports,...

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