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The Education of American Lawyers

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Ellsworth Frank L., Law on the Midway. The Founding of the University of Chicago Law School (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977). 191 + viii pp. $8.95.

Johnson William R., Schooled Lawyers: A Study in the Clash of Professional Cultures (New York: New York University Press, 1978). 215 + xvii pp. $16.00

Ritchie John, The First Hundred Years. A Short History of the School of Law of the University of Virginia for the Period 1826–1926 (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1978). 127 + xv pp. no price.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Frederic Cople Jaher*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

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Copyright © 1981 by History of Education Society 

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1. Auerbach, Jerold S., Unequal Justice. Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (New York, 1976) is the most informed and eloquent historical indictment of the legal profession.Google Scholar

2. Langdell, C. C. quoted in Johnson, , Schooled Lawyers, p. 103.Google Scholar