Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finality is not claimed for the above list. Very possibly other equally important defects have been overlooked. But it is confidently believed that those law school men whose mental efforts are not quickened altogether by the voice of authority will recognize the justice of those here set down...
...minds of those of us who are left to stumble on the law wherever we can find it according to the "system", certain constantly recurring doubts very early crystallize...
...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...
...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 book, and Professor Morgan's Introduction together...
...drift here adverted to will continue. Newer, more comprehensive and convenient texts will appear from the pens of professors of other law schools and will be worked in within the limits of the abuse of the existing method. It is inconceivable that present conditions will continue to be accepted as ultimate in the perfectibility of legal education...