It is not easy to see moral ideals change. The alteration of assumptions is too subtle, the
shifting foundations of guilt and pride too nearly invisible. But when the moral life moves-like …

Introduction As members of the legal profession, we have been taught that we are elite. The
legal profession has always drawn the best and the brightest. We believe that law school is …

Addressing an audience of medical students in 1810, the Philadelphia physician Benjamin
Rush recounted a recent call he had made, in consultation with a Dr. Physick, to the …

Justice's Court in the Backwoods. Oil on canvas by Tompkins H. Matteson. Collections? of
the New York State Historical Association. From Community to Status: The Development of …

Legal discourse shapes our beliefs about the experiences and capacities of the human
species, our conceptions of justice, free-dom and fulfillment, and our visions of the future …

[A] nd now, having grasped his new-purchased Sword in his Hand, he was going to issue
forth, when the Thought of what he was about to undertake laid suddenly hold of him, and he …

For seventy or eighty years after the American Revolution the major direction of common law
policy reflected the overthrow of eighteenth cen-tury pre-commercial and anti-developmental …

In his recent survey of law and social order in the United States,'Willard Hurst argued that a"
realistic history of law in the United States must relate law to institutions and ideas de-rived …

Judge Henry St. George Tucker asserted in 1841 that" from the formation of the republic, the
most distinguished men in our councils have been of the [legal] profession, and it may not be …

On opening day of the fall term in 1870 at Harvard Law School it is late morning and the sole
lecture room in Dane Hall," by reason of its being so low studded and so near the roof... is a …