October 17, 2008
Due Processors: Educators Seek a Digital Upgrade for Teaching Law
Online material could replace traditional casebooks that can be measured in pounds
In 1871, Christopher Columbus Langdell, a prominent jurist who had joined the law faculty at Harvard University, hit on the idea of compiling thick, imposing "casebooks" with hundreds of appeals-court rulings on particular areas of law — contracts, constitutional law, torts, and others.
Today, the hefty tomes and related works have become the foundations of legal teaching.
They
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