LibGuides: Legal History: American Legal Education (BC Law): Selected Major Resources

Selected Titles on the History of American Legal Education

The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources by Steve Sheppard (Editor)
Call Number: Law General Collection KF273 .H535 1999
ISBN: 0893563315
Publication Date: 1999
Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s by Robert Stevens
Call Number: Law General Collection KF272 .S8 1983
ISBN: 0807815373
Publication Date: 1983
Available in print and on HeinOnline.
A Bibliography of United States Legal Education: From Litchfield to Lexis by Kathleen M. Carrick (Editor); Sally Walters (Editor)
Call Number: Law Reference KF261 .B53 2003
ISBN: 083773102X
Publication Date: 2003
Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 by J. Clay Smith
Call Number: Law General Collection KF299.A35 S65 1993
ISBN: 0812231813
Publication Date: 1993
Also available electronically through Internet Archive in 1 hour intervals, if you set up a free account: https://archive.org/details/emancipationmaki00smit
The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women by Mary L. Clark
Call Number: HeinOnline (The American University Law Review, Feb. 1998, Vol.47 (3), p.613)
The Struggle for Access from Sweatt to Grutter: A History of African American, Latino, and American Indian Law School Admissions, 1950-2000 by William C. Kidder
Call Number: HeinOnline (Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, March 2003, Vol.19, p.1
Publication Date: 2003
Young Limbs of the Law: Law Students, Legal Education, and the Occupational Culture of Attorneys, 1820-1860 by Christine Ann Fidler
Call Number: Available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Publication Date: 1996
Thesis (Ph.D) University of California at Berkeley
Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870-2018 by Douglas W. Lind
Call Number: Law General Collection KF280 .L56 2020
ISBN: 9780837741130
Publication Date: 2020
Comprehensive list of casebooks intended for use in law schools and published in the United States from their inception in 1871 through 2018.
Educating Lawyers Now and Then: An Essay Comparing the 2007 and 1914 Carnegie Foundation Reports on Legal Education by James R. Maxeiner
Call Number: Law General Collection KF279 .M39 2007
ISBN: 1600420338
Publication Date: 2007
Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education by William P. LaPiana
Call Number: Law General Collection KF272 .L27 1994
ISBN: 0195079353
Publication Date: 1994
The Gladsome Light of Jurisprudence: Learning the Law in England and the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Michael H. Hoeflich
Call Number: Law General Collection K100.Z9 G55 1988
ISBN: 0313264376
Publication Date: 1988
The American Law School and the Rise of Administrative Government by William C. Chase
Call Number: Law General Collection KF272 .C42 1982
ISBN: 0299091007
Publication Date: 1982
The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906 by Bruce A. Kimball
Call Number: Law General Collection KF368 .L36 K56 2009
ISBN: 9780807832578
Publication Date: 2009
Available online through multiple databases.

Major Databases for Digitized Books, Theses, and Dissertations

Hein Online Legal Classics
The HeinOnline Legal Classics Library is a digital collection of many of the most highly regarded works written on American law, published in this country or abroad, from its beginnings to the end of 1860. It also includes American works on foreign, comparative and international law. The collection is based on titles listed in the Bibliography of Early American Law, by Morris L. Cohen. Additional titles have been selected from the AALS Law Books Recommended for Libraries, plus a number of additional early British and Commonwealth titles.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (MOML 1) This link opens in a new window
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926. Over 21,000 digitized legal treatises on nearly every aspect of British Commonwealth and American law from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sources include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Search by full-text, keyword, subject, and other fields, including the Topic of Legal Education.

Dissertations & Theses Full-Text
Take advantage of the in-depth research contained in theses and dissertations. Most from 1990 to the present are available in full text.
Google Books
Use Google Book Search to search by keyword in the full text of digitized books or to consult the traditional book tools of indexes, source lists, and bibliographies online

West Academic Casebooks Archive This link opens in a new window
This archive brings together thousands of casebooks from West Publishing, and includes all out-of-print and superseded casebooks in West Academic’s American Casebook Series, University Casebook Series, Hornbook Series, and Nutshell series, except for the two most recent editions of any title. This ever-expanding archive will grow on a regular basis. (BC Access)