Harvard Law School is the oldest and, arguably, the most
influential law school in the nation. U.S. presidents, Supreme
Court justices, and foreign heads of state, along with senators,
congressional representatives, social critics, civil rights
activists, university presidents, state and federal judges,
military generals, novelists, spies, Olympians, film and TV
producers, CEOs, and one First Lady have graduated from the school
since its founding in 1817. During its first century, Harvard Law
School pioneered revolutionary educational ideas, including
professional legal education within a university, Socratic
questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of
students based on academic merit. But the school struggled to
navigate its way through the many political, social, economic, and
legal crises of the century, and it earned both scars and plaudits
as a result. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid, critical,
definitive account of a unique legal institution during its first
century of influence. Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball
examine the school's ties with institutional slavery, its buffeting
between Federalists and Republicans, its deep involvement in the
Civil War, its reluctance to admit minorities and women, its
anti-Catholicism, and its financial missteps at the turn of the
twentieth century. On the Battlefield of Merit brings the story of
Harvard Law School up to 1909-a time when hard-earned
accomplishment led to self-satisfaction and vulnerabilities that
would ultimately challenge its position as the leading law school
in the nation. A second volume will continue this history through
the twentieth century.
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