Portrait of Langdell by Frederick Porter Vinton, 1892
Born
May 22, 1826 (1826-05-22)
New Boston, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died
July 6, 1906(1906-07-06) (aged 80)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
Harvard University
Known for
Casebook method
1st Dean of Harvard Law School
In office 1870–1895
Succeeded by
James Barr Ames
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Christopher Columbus Langdell (May 22, 1826 – July 6, 1906) was an American jurist and legal academic who was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895. As a professor and administrator, he pioneered the casebook method of instruction, which has since been widely adopted in American law schools and adapted for other professional disciplines, such as business, public policy, and education. He has been referred to as "arguably the most influential teacher in the history of professional education in the United States".[1]
Dean Langdell's legacy lies in the educational and administrative reforms he made to Harvard Law School, a task he was entrusted with by President Charles Eliot. Before Langdell's tenure the study of law was a rather technical pursuit in which students were simply told what the law is. Langdell applied the principles of pragmatism to the teaching of law as a result of which students were compelled to use their own reasoning powers to understand how the law might apply in a given case. This dialectical process came to be called the case method and has been the primary method of pedagogy at American law schools ever since. The case method has since been adopted and improved upon by schools in other disciplines, such as business, public policy, and education.
^Christopher Langdell: The Case of an 'Abomination' in Teaching Practice by Bruce A. Kimball [1] Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
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