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Langdell's Auto-da-fé

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2011

John Henry Schlegel
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As one who has suggested in print that Christopher Columbus Langdell was a loony, I am singularly pleased that Bruce Kimball has so carefully demonstrated that Kit was a regular guy just trying to teach his classes and learn some law. But this observation seems to me to be not particularly relevant to the debate about Langdell that I have mostly watched, but occasionally commented on. I shall try to recreate that debate as best I can, to show where it stands, and so, to identify where an understanding of Langdell's teaching places us.

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Law and History Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1999 , pp. 149 - 154
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999

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