Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these words Dean James M. Landis gave voice to the spirit of legal education at the Harvard Law School...
Dean Landis was outspoken in his criticism of methods of teaching which were ruled by a series of changing fashions. "It too often has been true that a new and worthwhile method of legal analysis, such as that of Hohfeld, has become a final gospel for others, and that those outlanders who insist upon their independence have been regarded for the time being as passe...
...seminars using college professors in addition to the regular law faculty. Labor law is considered such a field--where one can profit from having a seminar conducted jointly by a law professor and a labor economist. But the Dean stressed that such seminars must rest on a background of legal knowledge. In this connection he thought that some of the material which is introduced in other law schools in the first year should come later. Constitutional law, for example, is given at some schools in the first term. "Before you take such a course, you need a good legal background...
...Harvard has been unable to utilize the results of the legal and other aptitude tests given by other schools." The difficulty arises from the fact that other schools have considered college records, aptitude and personality all together, and thus failed to isolate the results of the aptitude tests. "Personality," remarked Mr. Landis, "tends to be more guesswork." He said it might mean social background or almost anything that the interviewer wanted to take into consideration...
Born within a month of each other in Greater Boston, they were both appointed to the Law School in 1890. The professors have since attained international recognition as leaders in the legal profession, especially for their treatises on subjects ranging from innkeepers to the Regulation of Railroad Rates...