Law School

Comprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press [1983]. xvi 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College Oxford seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed with a thorough bibliography. <br><br>the most comprehensive treatment of the subject. --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law Third Edition (2005) 589