Law School in a university: Yale's distinctive path in the later nineteenth century

History of the Yale Law School: The Tercentennial Lectures

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 53-74

  Langbein, John H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (59)

1. John H. Langbein, "Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of the Yale Law School," supra this volume (hereafter Lecture I). Brooks Mather Kelley, Yale: A History 256 (1974).
2. "History of the Yale Law School: Provenance and Perspective," supra in this volume.
3. Frederick C. Hicks, Yale Law School: The Founders and the Founders' Collection (1935; hereafter Hicks I)
4. Frederick C. Hicks, History of the Yale Law School to 1915 (2001) (hereafter 2001 ed.).
5. Alfred F. Konefsky & John Henry Schlegel, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Histories of American Law Schools, 95 Harvard L. Rev. 833 (1982).
6. Simeon E. Baldwin, Law School of Yale College, extract from the Year Book of the City of New Haven for 1872-73
7. Julius Goebel, Jr. [& Samuel F. Howard], A History of the School of Law of Columbia University 36 (1955)
8. Charles Warren, History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America 334 (1908) (3 vols.) (emphasis deleted) (hereafter Warren, Harvard).
9. Richard J. Storr, The Beginnings of Graduate Education in America 3 (1953).
10. Theodore D. Wool-sey, Historical Discourse... and Oration 19 (1874) (hereafter Woolsey, Historical Discourse). The Yale Law School catalogue for 1887-88
11. Steve Sheppard, Casebooks, Commentaries, and Curmudgeons: An Introductory History of Law in the Lecture Hall, 82 Iowa L. Rev. 547, 583-86 (1997).
12. Joseph Chitty Jr., A Practical Treatise on the Law of Contracts, Not under Seal (London, 1826). Peter Stern (YLS'97) has transcribed the notes with an introduction: "The Contracts Notes of Timothy Merwin: Earliest Evidence of Instruction at the Yale Law School" (unpublished paper, 1996) (Yale Law Libr. RB classmark YL 19 H629 no.3) (manuscript in Sterling M&A, Yale Course Lectures Collection, 1720-1980
13. See J. H. Baker, Readers and Readings in the Inns of Court and Chancery (2001) (Selden Soc. Supp. Ser. 13)
14. S. E. Thorne, ed., Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century (1954) (Selden Soc. Vol. 71). Discussed in Lecture I, text at notes 41-43.
15. A. W. B. Simpson, The Rise and Fall of the Legal Treatise: Legal Principles and the Forms of Legal Literature, 48 U. Chi. L. Rev. 632 (1981).
16. John C. Schwab, The Yale College Curriculum: 1701-1901, 2-11 (1901).
17. Franklin B. Dexter, Biographical Notes of Graduates of Yale College 710-11 (1885-1912) (6 vols.) (hereafter Dexter, Yale Biographies); Hicks II:22-24, 2001 ed. at 72-74.
18. Elizabeth Forgeus, The History of the Storrs Lectureship in the Yale Law School: The First Three Decades, 1890-1920 (1940).
19. William L. Storrs & Isaac H. Townsend to the Prudential Committee of Yale College, Dec. 23, 1845
20. Sterling M A, Yale Corp. Recs., MS Vault I, Box 4, RU164 426 1-A ACCN 1993-A-083 (hereafter Storrs/Townsend Letter), quoted in Hicks I:30, at 31.
21. Simeon E. Baldwin, "The Graduating Class of 1898," Yale Shingle 68 (1898) (hereafter Baldwin, Shingle), quoted in Hicks III:2, 2001 ed. at 118.
22. see "Rules of the Yale Law Library" (New Haven, Mar. 1847), Yale Law School Records, Sterling M&A, classmark RU 449 ACCN 1939-A-001, box 1, folder 3, reproduced in Hicks II:58-59, 2001 ed. at 108-9.
23. Hicks I:35. The Corporation stopped charging interest in 1856 because the Law School had inadequate revenue. Hicks II:34, 2001 ed. at 84.
24. Hicks II:41, 2001 ed. at 91; 5 Dictionary of American Biography 555-56 (D. Ma-lone et al. eds., 1928-37) (hereafter DAB).
25. Woolsey, Historical Discourse, supra note 16, at 11.
26. George D. Watrous, "Address before the New Haven County Bar Association," in Records and Addresses in Memory of Simeon E. Baldwin: 1840-1927, 12-13 (1928)
27. William C. Robinson, An Address Commemorative of the Life and Character of Francis Wayland 21 (New Haven, 1904) (Sterling M&A shelfmark Ycy 1 W365) (hereafter Robinson, Wayland); Hicks II:37, 2001 ed. at 87.
28. Frederick H. Jackson, Simeon Eben Baldwin: Lawyer, Social Scientist, Statesman (1955)
29. Charles C. Goetsch, Essays on Simeon E. Baldwin (1981) (hereafter Goetsch, Baldwin); 1 DAB 544-47; Hicks IV:63-85, 2001 ed. at 265-87.
30. Goetsch, Baldwin, supra note 48, at 93.
31. Baldwin's grandfather, also named Simeon (1761-1851), was a Yale College classmate (1781) of James Kent, the future Chancellor Kent. Dexter, Yale Biographies, supra note 23, at 178-80, 189-94.
32. John H. Langbein, Chancellor Kent and the History of Legal Literature, 93 Columbia L. Rev. 547, 551 & n. 18 (1993) (hereafter Langbein, Kent).
33. Simeon E. Baldwin, American Railroad Law (1904).
34. Simeon E. Baldwin, A Digest of All the Reported Cases in... Connecticut (2d ed. 1900) (2 vols.) (1st ed. Boston, 1871-82).
35. Recounted Goetsch, "Is There Any Woe Greater?: The Institutionalization of Susan W. Baldwin for Insanity During the Late Nineteenth Century," in Goetsch, Baldwin, supra note 48, at 186.
36. Baldwin, Shingle, supra note 32, at 68, cited in Hicks III:1-2, 2001 ed. at 117-18.
37. Woolsey, Historical Discourse, supra note 16, at 11.
38. Woolsey, Harvard, supra note 11, at 358-59.
39. Hugh Hawkins, Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot (1972)
40. Henry James, Charles W. Eliot (1930) (2 vols.). On the importance of these developments to the changes at Harvard Law School in the 1870s associated with Langdell
41. Anthony Chase, The Birth of the Modern Law School, 23 American J. Legal History 329, 332-43 (1979)
42. David S. Clark, Tracing the Roots of American Legal Education: A Nineteenth-Century German Connection, 51 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 313 (1987)
43. Mark Bartholomew, Legal Separation: The Relationship Between the Law School and the Central University in the Late Nineteenth Century, 53 J. Legal Ed. 368, 377-84 (2003).
44. James Bryce, The Legal Profession in America, 25 Macmillan's Magazine 206, 209 (1871), quoted in Goebel & Howard, supra note 10, at 63, 409 n.116.
45. Woolsey, Historical Discourse, supra note 16, at 22.
46. Baldwin, Law School, supra note 9, at 6.
47. Robinson, Wayland, supra note 47, at 24-25; Hicks IV:22-23, 2001 ed. at 224-25.
48. William C. Robinson, Elementary Law v-viii (1875); Hicks III:44-45, 160-61. Robinson later quit in a huff about Yale's acceptance of case method instruction; see Robert Stevens, Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1880s, at 87 & n.34 (1983) (hereafter Stevens, Law School).
49. George A. King, Theodore Dwight Woolsey: His Political and Social Ideas (1956)
50. Theodore S. Woolsey, Theodore Dwight Woolsey-A Biographical Sketch (1912); 20 DAB 519-20.
51. Theodore D. Woolsey, Introduction to the Study of International Law (Cambridge, MA, 1860) (1st ed.).
52. Woolsey, Historical Discourse, supra note 16, at 22.
53. Woolsey, Historical Discourse, supra note 16, at 23-24, cited in Hicks III:18-19, 2001 ed. 134-35.
54. Simeon E. Baldwin, "Yale's Graduate Course in Law and Jurisprudence," in The Yale School of Law: An Account of Its Recent Progress and Expansion, Reminiscences of Its Earlier Days, Supplement to The Yale Alumni Weekly, March 23, 1917, at 7-8 (Yale Law School RB shelfmark YL 19 Al8) (hereafter Baldwin, 1917 Essay).
55. William P. LaPiana, Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education 132-47 (1994).
56. James A. Wooten, Law School Rights: The Establishment of New York Law School, 1891-1997, 36 New York Law School L. Rev. 337 (1991).
57. Stevens, Law School, supra note 92, at 51-64.
58. Edward J. Phelps, who held it to 1900; and in 1913 by William Howard Taft, who resigned in 1921 to become Chief Justice.
59. Frederick C. Hicks, William Howard Taft: Yale Professor of Law and New Haven Citizen 29 (1945).