The Law Curriculum: Subjects to Be Included and Order of Presentation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

McClain, Emlin

9780260198402: The Law Curriculum: Subjects to Be Included and Order of Presentation (Classic Reprint)

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What point of view is to be taken in selecting and present ing the subjects of a course of instruction? Are they to be regarded as disciplinary and ranked in order and prominence on that basis, or is the greater amount of time and attention to be given to them in accordance with the frequency with which the student will have occasion to deal with them in actual practice? I do not hesitate to insist most strongly on considering each subject from the standpoint of its scientific rather than its immediately practical value. It will be readily conceded that some things must be mastered which will scarcely be caught sight of again in an active and extensive practice of the law, while many things which will have prominence in the every day experience of the lawyer must be ignored entirely, for the reason that they will either become self-evident when the scientific basis is found, or so much a matter of mere infor mation, like the contents of local statutes, that it is not worth while for the teacher to spend time upon them, in view of the fact that the student may master them by his own exertions when needed.

The history of the law of real property, the development of equity jurisprudence, the principles of common law plead ing, are illustrations of branches of the law which cannot be safely omitted from a law school, nor superficially treated without impairing the permanent value of the entire work.

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