Word: casebooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those subjects, e.g. torts and criminal law; which it is felt are peculiarly unsuited to casebook instruction it is possible to formulate very specific adverse criticisms: 1. that the material is placed before the student in a form at once fragmentary and incoherent. 2. that the books are necessarily choked with irrelevant matter which overwhelms the learner and, so far from stimulating his mental processes, deadens them. 3. that the knowledge imparted is often startling in its superficiality and precarious by reason of its want of foundation...
...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...
...deals with elemental emotions, this play, with a simplicity that is devastating. It is as fine a series of psychological studies as one will find outside a casebook. And it has the added benefit of perfect interpretation. Its British cast leaves nothing to be asked. Particularly effective are Jack Hawkins, Leon Quartermaine, Colin Keith-Johnson, Derek Williams and Victor Stanlev...