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	Langdell, Christopher Columbus: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		In 1870, Professor Christopher Columbus Langdell, in the first contracts class he taught at Harvard Law School, put the question to a student and forever changed the way lawyers learned their craft.
		Langdell's students read the reports of actual court cases and were required to discuss them in class.
		Although there is evidence that Langdell was not the first to use the CASE METHOD, as dean, he had the opportunity to shape the...
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/langdell-christopher-columbus (187 words)

	Christopher Columbus Langdell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LANGDELL (1826-1906), American jurist, was born in New Boston, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, on the 22nd of May 1826, of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry.
		He resigned the deanship in 1895, in 1900 became Dane professor emeritus, and on the 6th of July 1906 died in Cambridge.
		Langdell wrote Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (1870, the first book used in the "case" system; enlarged, 1877); Cases on Sales (1872); Summary of Equity Pleading (1877, 2nd ed., 1883); Cases in Equity Pleading (1883); and Brief Survey of Equity Jurisdiction (1905).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Christopher_Columbus_Langdell (258 words)

	William P. LaPiana \| Langdell Laughs \| Law and History Review, Volume 17 Number 1, 17.1 \| The History Cooperative
		Perhaps Langdell should be counted among the realists' predecessors, not only because he helped to break the hold of a priori principles on the legal mind, but also because of the approach to the law of business associations and practices revealed in these notebooks.
		Langdell was excoriated for omitting life from legal education, for concentrating, in Holmes's famous phrase, on logic rather than experience.
		Surely Langdell believed his studies were important to the working of law, but the importance is not as clear to us as it was to him and his contemporaries.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/17.1/lapiana.html (1708 words)

	Philosophy of Law: Lecture Notes: University of West Georgia - Robert Lane, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Langdell took jurisprudence to be a science, the point of which was to identify the general legal principles embodied in the reasoning and decisions of multiple cases, and to classify and arrange those principles, thus revealing them to be part of a system
		Langdell maintained that the question whether this principle ought to hold should not be settled based on considerations of practicality or convenience.
		Holmes in 1880 criticized what he considered to be Langdell's rigidly logical approach to jurisprudence, pointing particularly to Langdell's passing comment that "substantial justice and the interests of the parties" were "irrelevant" to analysis of the mailbox rule in contract law.
	www.westga.edu /~rlane/law/lecture11_lf.html (956 words)

	Langdell, Christopher Columbus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Langdell is especially famed for the introduction of the “case method” in the study of law.
		Langdell’s theory was first adopted at Harvard, then at Columbia law school, and in time gained almost universal acceptance.
		Langdell prepared casebooks in the fields of contracts, equity, and sales.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/Langdell.html (197 words)

	Christopher Columbus Langdell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Columbus Langdell (May 22, 1826 - July 6, 1906), American jurist, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry.
		He made the Harvard Law School a success by remodeling its administration and by introducing the case method of instruction.
		It is said that Langdell came from a relatively unknown family and resented that students from better families did better than he in their coursework.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Columbus_Langdell (309 words)

	Social Law Library Bicentennial
		Christopher Columbus Langdell - (1826-1906) - Father of the Case Method.
		Harvard Law School Dean and Professor Christopher Columbus Langdell developed the case-study method of instruction - that being the study of law by examining all the decided cases bearing upon the point immediately under consideration.
		According to Langdell, "[T]he Library is to us all that the laboratories of the university are to the chemists and physicists, all that the museum of natural history is to the zoologist, all that the botanical garden is to the botanists.
	www.socialaw.com /bicentennial/langdell.htm (139 words)

	Columbus, Ohio — FactMonster.com
		Columbus was chartered as a city in 1834 and annexed Franklinton in 1870.
		The city's growth was stimulated by the development of transportation facilities—a feeder to the Ohio Canal completed in 1832, the National Road in 1833, and the arrival of the railroad in 1850.
		Columbus is a port of entry and a major commercial, distribution, and cultural center.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108501.html (299 words)

	Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Series: His The long journey [v] LC Call No.: PZ3.J45 Ch Notes: "The present volume is a translation of Christopher Columbus, the fifth and concluding part of Jensen's historical cycle, Den lange rejse (The long journey) which is now complete in English in three volumes." Subjects: Columbus, Christopher.
		1930 Title: The voyages of Christopher Columbus, being the journals of his first and third, and the letters concerning his first and last voyages, to which is added the account of his second voyage written by Andres Bernaldez; now newly translated and edited, with an introduction and notes by Cecil Jane.
		Letter of Columbus on the discovery of the New World Notes: His The letter of Columbus on the discovery of the New World, 1988.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlccolumbus1.htm (2910 words)

	Concurring Opinions: Langdell, Eliot, and the Rise of Blogging
		The American law school as a post-graduate institution staffed by specialized academics focused on research and publishing is a creation of Christopher Columbus Langdell and the Harvard Law School of the 1870s through 1900.
		Langdell was hired by Harvard president Charles Eliot, who perhaps did as much as any other person to set the patterns of higher education in modern America.
		The second anomaly was Langdell's faith in the law as a self-contained and autonomous discipline, a faith that began to crumble even as Langdell was evangelizing it.
	www.concurringopinions.com /archives/2006/01/langdell_and_th.html (887 words)

	Langdell Family Crest
		Langdell is a name whose history on English soil dates back to the wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of England of 1066.
		Langdell is a habitation name from the broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names.
		In the Langdell coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/langdell-family-crest.htm (624 words)

	PLA4935a:Capstone: Issues in Law
		Langdell disapproved of the teaching methods of his contemporaries and with the support of Harvard's president, Charles Elliot, he changed how Harvard delivered its legal education.
		Langdell also believed that students should be guided to their own construction and understanding of the law, as opposed to being told what the law is by a professor.
		Langdell's methods met with some resistance, but were eventually universally adopted by United States law schools.
	reach.ucf.edu /~pla4935a/blah.html (1571 words)

	LHR 17:1 Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826--1906) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States.
		In conclusion, I suggest that the common pejorative interpretation of Langdell as rigidly dogmatic and obsessed with formalistic orthodoxy, both jurisprudentially and pedagogically, cannot be sustained for the early period of his academic career.
		Langdell also argues, contrary to the negative interpretation of his jurisprudence,46 that the legal doctrine of partnership must be inferred from "careful observation" of extralegal factors, such as the practice of merchants.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /journals/lhrtoc/lhr17_1frm.html (12317 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Was Langdell a Formalist?: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Volokh Conspiracy - Was Langdell a Formalist?:
		Langdell never directly said so, but he may have ascribed to organicism; Langdell may have been asserting that the law grows and develops by cases which we perceive in configurations, but which have nothing to do with an immutable absolute.
		The crystallized picture of Langdell as a formalist believer in true, discoverable legal order obscures the empirical Langdell, who threw over dry lectures and fixed maxims in favor of reading and discussing cases — a learning approach more akin to the everyday practice of law.
	volokh.com /posts/1161195701.shtml (2474 words)

	LawSchoolBlog.org: Re: Law school pet peeve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This system was basically established by the first dean of Harvard Law -- Christopher Columbus Langdell.
		Grant Gilmore said of him, "Langdell seems to have been an essentially stupid man who, early in his life, hit on one great idea to which, thereafter, he clung with all the tenacity of a genius."
		Langdell wrote the very first casebook, using only hand-picked cases from England, New York, and Massachusetts.
	www.lawschoolblog.org /2006/01/re_law_school_pet_peve.html (357 words)

	ExpressO Preprint Series
		The picture of modern legal education that emerges from these commentaries is one of missed intellectual opportunities, student disengagement and passivity, hostility to women and minorities, and declining academic rigor.
		In short, the proposal calls for discarding Langdell’s pedagogy and his architecture in favor of oval wooden tables, uniformly smaller classes of about twelve students, and complete freedom of curricular choice for students during all three years.
		Christophe G. Courchesne, ""A Suggestion of a Fundamental Nature": Imagining a Legal Education of Electives Taught as Discussion Sections" (August 26, 2004).
	law.bepress.com /expresso/eps/360 (306 words)

	LANGDELL, CHRISTOPHER ... - Online Information article about LANGDELL, CHRISTOPHER ...
		death one of the school's buildings was named Langdell See also:
		HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
		Langdell wrote Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (187o, the first See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KRO_LAP/LANGDELL_CHRISTOPHER_COLUMBUS_1.html (453 words)

	AllRefer.com - Christopher Columbus Langdell (Law, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Columbus Langdell[lang´dul] Pronunciation Key, 1826–1906, American teacher of law, b.
		New Boston, N.H. He practiced in New York City from 1854 to 1870, when he was appointed Dane professor of law at Harvard; in 1875 he became dean of Harvard law school.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Christopher Columbus Langdell
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Langdell.html (291 words)

	christopher columbus langdell and heretical opinions and bruce a kimball and harvard law school and case study method
		christopher columbus langdell and heretical opinions and bruce a kimball and harvard law school and case study method
		Instead of being satisfied with secondary researchers views on Langdell ("L"), he went through all of the "Langdell file," as well as that of his prize student, and future colleague, James Barr Ames.
		It is on the cutting edge of the "rehabilitation" movement now for L. I am glad the movement is underway.
	www.drbilllong.com /Jurisprudence/LangII.html (1207 words)

	Newest law "prof" can be found on web page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first computer-generated audio-visual personality to be put on-line at a law school, LANGDELL introduces the JURIST legal education service in four different languages.
		Named after the 19th-century Harvard law professor and dean Christopher Columbus Langdell, LANGDELL is the "virtual host" of JURIST 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
		"I put LANGDELL up to make the site more accessible to users who are tired of reading from their computer monitors, who have visual disabilities or who are simply looking for a new type of on-line multimedia experience," Hibbitts said.
	www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/32/000217/11.html (202 words)

	SSRN-The Purer Fountains: Bacon and Legal Education by Daniel Coquillette
		The dominant pedagogy, the case book and the Socratic method, were established by Christopher Columbus Langdell (1806-1906) at Harvard Law School more than a century ago.
		Together with Langdell's first year curriculum, which was exclusively focused on Anglo-American common law doctrine, and his emphasis on a competitive, anonymous graded meritocracy, this system still exercises an incredible grip on elite American law schools.
		But Langdell's 19th Century model has now been challenged by many rivals, including critical legal studies, law and economics empiricism, global curriculums, and clinical instruction.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=655261 (986 words)

	Horace Gray
		Gray was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1851.
		He studied law at Harvard Law School with Christopher Columbus Langdell, who would become Dean at Harvard in 1870, and who is responsible for the "socratic" method of law school instruction.
		Gray shortly thereafter became the Reporter of Decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, a prestigious appointment.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/gray.htm (218 words)

	Judicary and Activist Judges
		Toward the end of the nineteenth century Charles Darwin wrote his famous book "Origin of the Species." The dean of the Harvard Law college, Christopher Columbus Langdell, read Darwin's book, and he reasoned, if man evolved from apes then law should also be an evolving idea, which changes as man changes.
		By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the concept of Legal Relativism began to be formulated.
		The display of the Ten Commandments is offensive to many court judges because it points to moral values of right and wrong, which is contrary to Legal Relativism which many judges adhere to.
	www.free2pray.info /Judiciary.html (1234 words)

	HLS Library: Virtual Tour
		The Langdell Portrait hangs, appropriately, in the center of the Reading Room.
		This portrait of the building's namesake, Christopher Columbus Langdell, hangs in the center of the Reading Room just to the left of the Reference Room door.
		Langdell was Dean of the Law School from 1870 to 1895.
	www.law.harvard.edu /library/about/tour/v_tour/langdell_portrait.php (119 words)

	Legal reasoning paper
		First, the Dean at Harvard Law School, Christopher Columbus Langdell introduced the case method into the instruction of teaching law; and, second, a National Reporter system was introduced by the West Publishing Company which provided all federal court opinions throughout the United States.
		In addition to his case method, Langdell has also been recognized as one of the leading legal intellectuals who crystallized the concepts of classical legal thought--the basic idea that the law should proceed from the logical deductions of abstract principles.
		While instruction using Langdell’s case method reinforced the concept that judicial decision making should proceed from a rationalist and deductive logic from abstract principles, the National Reporter system by West Publishing Company had a different effect.
	www.ags.uci.edu /~dkieso/legal.htm (2936 words)

	Langdell, Christopher Columbus - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Langdell, Christopher Columbus - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
		Langdell, Christopher Columbus, 1826-1906, American teacher of law, b.
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	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Langdell (296 words)

	William Moody
		Moody's ancestors were Puritans who had settled in colonial Massachusetts.
		He then attended Harvard Law School, which was then undergoing a transformation through Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell.
		Moody left the law school after four months, and became a member of the Massachusetts bar after reading law.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/moody.htm (305 words)

	Law Professors Appointed to Named Professorships
		He participated in the organization of the Hilton Hotels Corp. in 1945 and was general counsel and an officer of Hilton.
		Constitutional law specialist Martha Field is the ninth Langdell Professor of Law.
		Harvard University created the chair and named it in honor of Christopher Columbus Langdell, Class of 1853, Dane Professor of Law from 1870 to 1900, and the first Dean of the Law School; Langdell served from 1870 to 1895.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/09.17/LawProfessorsAp.html (496 words)

	Langdell, Christopher Columbus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LANGDELL, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS [Langdell, Christopher Columbus], 1826-1906, American teacher of law, b.
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