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Affiliation with Yale helped to insure the continuity of Hitchcock and Daggett’s school. The others did not survive. Gilbert closed his school in...
A handful of college and college-affiliated law schools existed in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The College of William & Mary...
In Connecticut and elsewhere, instructors in the proprietary schools played a crucial and self-conscious role in the Americanization of the common law...
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Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) was based on a course of undergraduate lectures that Blackstone delivered at...
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century law books became widely available at affordable prices, thanks to the growth of the American publishing...