Yale Law School and the Sixties (eBook)

Revolt and Reverberations

Laura Kalman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
488 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7688-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yales past and with the social climate in which they lived. During a charged moment in the history of the United States, activists challenged senior professors, and the resulting clash pitted young against old in a very human story. By demanding changes in admissions, curriculum, grading, and law practice, Laura Kalman argues, these students transformed Yale Law School and the future of American legal education.Inspired by Yales legal realists of the 1930s, Yale law students between 1967 and 1970 spawned a movement that celebrated participatory democracy, black power, feminism, and the counterculture. After these students left, the repercussions hobbled the school for years. Senior law professors decided against retaining six junior scholars who had witnessed their conflict with the students in the early 1970s, shifted the schools academic focus from sociology to economics, and steered clear of critical legal studies. Ironically, explains Kalman, students of the 1960s helped to create a culture of timidity until an imaginative dean in the 1980s tapped into and domesticated the spirit of the sixties, helping to make Yales current celebrity possible.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Legal History
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Legal History
• Zusatzinfo: 38 illus., notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Alexander Bickel • antiwar movement • Bill Clinton • Black Panthers • Bobby Seale • Christopher Columbus Langdell • Clarence Thomas • Counterculture • Critical Legal Studies • Feminism • Guido Calabresi • Harvard Law School • hillary rodham clinton • Kingman Brewster • law and economics • Law and society • Legal Education • legal liberalism • legal process • Legal Realism • Liberalism • Meritocracy • Robert Bork • the Left • the Warren Court • Vietnam War • Yale Law School
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7688-7 / 0807876887
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7688-6 / 9780807876886