Concept
Harvard Law School
Overview
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States. For the class of 2028 9.2% of applicants were accepted, the school extending offers to 816 of 8917 applicants. Harvard Law School boasts an LSAT median of 174, which is a score in the 98.4th percentile .
Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest law schools in the United States. The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.
HLS has the world's largest academic law library. The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members. According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam. The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.
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At 6 o'clock the students are called, " 7 to 8 studies, " 8 to 9 scripture-reading, prayers, and breakfast, " 9 to 12 studies, " 12 to 1¼ leisure, nominally devoted to walking or other exercise, but often spent in study, " 1¼ to 2 dinner, the meal commonly occupying twenty minutes, " 2 to 5 studies, " 5 to 6 tea and relaxation, " 6 to 8½ studies, " 8½ to 9½ private studies in preparing lessons for the next day, " 10…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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If it is a day for private cases, the private litigants are called. Four cases are taken in each of the categories defined in the law, and the litigants swear to confine their speeches to the point at issue. If it is a day for public causes, the public litigants are called, and only one case is tried. Water-clocks are provided, having small supply-tubes, into which the water is poured by which the length of the…
Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution
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Among the oldest professors, on the contrary, many are for a long time stationary; they deliver on the whole only fixed views, and, in the details, much that time has already condemned as useless and false. Between the two arises a sad conflict, in which young minds are dragged hither and thither, and which can scarcely be set right by the middle-aged professors, who, though sufficiently instructed and cultivated…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
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Philosophers who discussed Harvard Law School
- Hans Kelsen
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Robert P. George
- Ronald Dworkin
- H. L. A. Hart
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Michael Sandel
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Roscoe Pound
- Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher)
- John Fiske (philosopher)
- Lon L. Fuller
- Robert S. Summers
- Moshe Halbertal
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- Pedagogy
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- Curriculum
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Roscoe Pound
- American Civil War
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher)
Place in the tradition
Part of Jurisprudence.