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...invasion is part of Yale's plan for producing not just casebook lawyers but what Dean Wesley A. Sturges calls "the policy-making man of tomorrow." Even the lawyers on Yale's faculty soak their casebooks in a heady wine of history, sociology, politics and economics, like to call in everybody from coal barons to clinical psychiatrists as guest experts. Says Sturges: "Our idea of law is more than the butterfly-&-microscope approach, the anatomy of legal proceedings. We try to put the rules of law into their social setting...
...reforms in the Chicago Law School's curriculum as outlined by Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow will rearrange the traditional pattern of U. S. legal education. Chicago Law next autumn will offer a four-year course which takes the emphasis away from the casebook method introduced some 65 years ago by Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell. The approved U. S. law course lasts three years. Chicago's students will still study cases, but besides such standbys as torts, contracts, property and procedure, the new Chicago plan calls for courses integrating with the law materials of economics...
Such colossal size was surprising even to those who knew that Dr. Dorrance was almost sole-owner of one of the most famed of advertised articles. But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade...
...modification. The first year course in Civil Procedure is an outstanding example of an attempt to impose on materials stubbornly renitent a scheme of presentation foreign to the subject. The difficulties enumerated above are encountered with wearisome incessancy throughout the year. In Property I Professor Edward Warren's casebook is an amazing confession of the hopelessness of the task which it essays. The pages are heavily laden with so-called "notes" by the author and extracts from the texts of Littleton, Coke, Black stone. Fearne, Washburn and others calculated to bring to light the shreds of learning which the cases...
Naturally an arrangement so repugnant to common sense tends to correct itself Though Warren's casebook remains nominally the basis of Property L. actually the cases which it contains on convincing, the very heart of the subject, are used by the students merely as supplements to their reading in the texts of Bigelow, Introduction to the Law of Real Property, and Holdsworth. An Historical Introduction to the Land Law. Tiffany's pretties is extensively used in connection with other parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little...