Legal History, Comparative Study, teaching 

JCL studies in comparative law 

"Sixty-four leading legal historians ruminate on their own approaches to teaching legal history in nearly a third of the American law schools: what they teach, why they teach as they do, how they structure their courses, and what they expect their students and themselves to take away from the study of legal history. The diversity of approaches to the teaching of legal history as demonstrated in this collection is impressive and fascinating, and at the same time quixotic, unsystematic, not integrated into the law curriculum, and not comprehensive or thorough. The contributions are full of inspiration, creative imagination and resourcefulness, self-criticism, insight, and a shared conviction of the importance of a knowledge of legal history for the future of the law teacher and the legal practitioner. They address: legal history in the law school curriculum; legal history and the common law tradition; legal history and the United States Constitution; challenges of the legal history course; finding one's voice as a legal history lecturer; teaching aids; locating and using legal history sources; local sources of legal history; legal history and the public, business community, and government; legal history and civil rights, the African-American experience, and women; transnational legal history; English legal history, Hispanic legal history; legal history and the American legal profession, judges, and the development of legal skills" - Voila 

Content:
History of legal history courses offered in American law schools / Joan Sidney Howland -- Teaching legal history in the first-year curriculum / Christian G. Fritz -- Teaching American legal history in a law school / Peter D. Garlock -- What I do when I teach legal history / Stephen B. Presser -- Teaching American legal history through storytelling / Michael S. Ariens -- The lessons of history : past performance is no guarantee of future results / John V. Orth -- The fun of teaching American legal history / Geoffrey R. Watson -- Two books and two perspectives on teaching U.S. constitutional history / William G. Merkel -- Documents, not dogma / Mark R. Killenbeck -- What the actions of Abe Lincoln continue to teach us today / Michael J. Slinger -- American legal history : teaching law students as if they were graduate students / Christopher Tomlins -- Legal history in context / Logan Everett Sawyer III -- Reading, writing, and questions in advance / Daniel Klerman -- An amateur's apologia / Daniel S. Reynolds -- Teaching the legal history you write about / Scott Douglas Gerber -- Using videos to teach American legal history / Catherine J. Lanctot -- Art and legal history / Timothy J. Innes -- Legal history : the most interesting course in law school / Carla L. Boles -- On the shoulders of giants / M.H. Hoeflich -- Legal history through digital sources / Ryan Rowberry -- Teaching the doing of legal history / Richard A. Paschal -- Primary sources and ambiguity in legal history / Evan C. Zoldan -- Behind the scenes : exploring the history of law school cases / Carol. L. Chomsky -- Keeping up with legal history / Arthur F. McEvoy -- Local Knowledge : including local sources in the survey course / Anders Walker -- Integrating state (Georgia) and national legal history / James L. Hunt -- Legal history seminar : leading Maryland cases / Edward C. Papenfuse and Garrett Power -- How I teach American legal history : law as a river / Charles D. Kelso -- Limited in its sphere, infinite in its power / Stephanie Hunter McMahon -- Interest groups in the teaching of legal history / Herbert Hoverkamp -- Teaching the history of corporate law : a framework / Amitai Aviram -- Teaching America's antitrust laws and their enforcement / Thomas J. Horton -- Tradition / Richard I. Aaron -- Development of the regulatory state / Steven R. Wilf -- Bureaucracy for law students / Daniel R. Ernst -- The history of contemporary law and policy / Molly Selvin -- The everyday life of the law / Jason A. Gillmer -- Reflections and American legal history / Danné L. Johnson -- The search for national identity / Sheldon M. Novick -- Teaching African-American legal history / Stephanie L. Phillips -- An antebellum slave law colloquium / Bryan Camp -- Brown v. Board of Education : teaching an iconic case / David S. Tanenhaus -- Teaching women's legal history / Tracy A. Thomas -- U.S. women's legal history / Mary L. Clark -- Imagination and creativity : my history of marriage seminar / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- On teaching the history of international law / William E. Butler -- Legal history from Babylonia, Israel, Greece, and Rome to the early American Republic / John W. Welch -- A legal history course for a Christian legal education / Craig A. Stern -- 1066 and all that / Joan Mahoney -- Teaching English legal history at a small law school / Carlton F.W. Larson -- Becoming an English legal history teacher / Jonathan Rose -- Teaching comparative legal history : Latin American legal systems / Polly J. Price -- Teaching Latin American legal history / M.C. Mirow -- The multidimensional teaching of legal history / Peter L. Reich -- Teaching the history of the legal profession / J. Gordon Hylton -- Teaching the history of lawyering : who do we think we are? / Bernard J. Hibbitts -- Using history to teach students how to be lawyers / Gregory F. Jacob -- Tracing judicial roles over time / G. Edward White -- Designing a course in judicial biography / Mae Kuykendall -- Hawaii, American legal history, and the pivotal role of Chief Justice William S. Richardson / Williamson B.C. Chang -- Teaching legal history in the age of practical legal education / Douglas E. Abrams -- Teaching legal history through legal skills / Howard Bromberg -- Legal history : teaching skills practicing lawyers need / Robert M. Jarvis. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item catalogued by editor (Jarvis, Robert M.).