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The “Science” of Legal Science: The Model of the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century American Legal Education
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, a model of legal education called legal science became prominent in American universities as mentioned in this paper and the idea of teaching law as a science was not new in American education.Abstract:
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a model of legal education called “legal science” became prominent in American universities. The idea of teaching law as a science was not new in American education. In 1823 Timothy Dwight wrote that Tapping Reeve, at Litchfield, taught law “as a science, and not merely nor principally as a mechanical business; nor as a collection of loose independent fragments, but as a regular well-compacted system.” Dwight, however, used “science” in its older sense of an organized body of knowledge rather than in its emergent sense as a method characteristic of the study of nature. Similarly, James Kent and Joseph Story, Francis Hilliard, and Silas Jones all thought of themselves as approaching law as a science, but what they meant was that law was an outgrowth of the moral sciences.read more
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The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
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TL;DR: In this article, the text, editions, and translations introduction chronology selected readings table of regnal years index is presented. But they do not provide translations of the selected readings tables.
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Framing the Field of Law's Disciplinary Encounters: A Historical Narrative
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The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education: More than a Method
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
TL;DR: Pocock as mentioned in this paper argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance, and relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in the thought of the eighteenth century.
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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TL;DR: In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experiments and argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the airpump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on as mentioned in this paper.
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Evolution: The History of an Idea
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