Contents

Introduction Anthony T. Kronman..........................................................................................ix History of the Yale Law School: Provenance and Perspective Robert Stevens................................................1 Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of the Yale Law School John H. Langbein...................................17 Law School in a University: Yale's Distinctive Path in the Later Nineteenth Century John H. Langbein.....................53 Professors and Policymakers: Yale Law School Faculty in the New Deal and After Robert W. Gordon..........................75 Politics and the Law School: The View from Woodbridge Hall, 1921-1963 Gaddis Smith.......................................138 The Dark Ages Laura Kalman...............................................................................................154 List of Contributors......................................................................................................238 Index.....................................................................................................................239 < ... read full excerpt from History of the Yale Law School: The Tercentennial Lectures ebook