caa a22 4500 388082712 CHVBK 20180307125221.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744185 doi S0738248000006842 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744185 Kimball Bruce A. "Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”: The Inception of Case Method Teaching in the Classrooms of the Early C. C. Langdell, 1870-1883 [Elektronische Daten] [Bruce A. Kimball] Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826-1906) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States. He shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Indeed, Langdell may well be the most influential figure in the history of American professional education because he established at HLS, with the help of President Charles W. Eliot, the model for twentieth-century professional schools. His innovations—such as minimum academic standards for admission to degree candidacy, a graded and sequential curriculum, minimum academic standards for continuation in a degree program, a professorial career track for faculty members, and the transformation of the library from a textbook repository into a scholarly resource—became the norm to which leading law schools, medical schools, and, finally, schools of other professions in the twentieth century aspired. Among these changes, none is more closely associated with Langdell than the introduction of case method teaching. Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 57-140 0738-2480 17:1<57 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744185 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744185 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kimball Bruce A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 57-140 0738-2480 17:1<57 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge