Robert Stevens

Gebundenes Buch

Law School

Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s [1983]

Beschreibung

Comprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. "the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law, Third Edition (2005) 589

Autor

Born in 1929 and bred in the back streets of Liverpool and still turned up at the publishers desk.¿ I guess I must be lucky,¿ my mum rented a house in Garden Street, Liverpool on the edge of town.¿ Dad was injured in the 1914-1918 war and was paralysed down the right side of his body.¿ He got nine shillings a week war pension and my mum got a pound from the Public Assistance.¿ Life was tough but interesting, evacuated in the war then later joined the RAF and eventually emigrated to South Africa in the early 1970's and then onto Rhodesia which later became Zimbabwe. Travelled back and forth then eventually back to Wales in 1985.¿ Our family history contains many interesting and great characters have also included writers in the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781584771999
• ISBN-10: 1584771992
• Artikelnr.: 44975614