AMERICAN
JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY
Volume 53, Issue 4 (October 2013)
“TEACHING
LEGAL HISTORY IN U.S. LAW SCHOOLS: A
SYMPOSIUM”
Editor’s Note
INTRODUCTION
A History of Legal History Courses Offered in
American Law Schools, Joan
Sidney Howland
I. OBJECTIVES
Teaching Legal History in the First Year Curriculum, Christian G. Fritz
Teaching American Legal History in a Law School, Peter D. Garlock
Teaching Legal History at a Small Law School, Carlton F.W. Larson
What I Do When I Teach Legal History, Stephen B. Presser
Legal History in Context, Logan Everett Sawyer III
A Legal History Course for a Christian Legal
Education, Craig A. Stern
II. TECHNIQUES
Teaching American Legal History Through
Storytelling, Michael Ariens
Teaching the Legal History You Write About, Scott Douglas Gerber
Art and Legal History, Timothy J. Innes
Using Videos to Teach American Legal History, Catherine J. Lanctot
Legal History Through Digital Sources, Ryan Rowberry
The Fun of Teaching American Legal History, Geoffrey R. Watson
III. DOMESTIC SUBJECT MATTERS
Conceptualizing the Evolution of Corporate Law, Amitai Aviram
An Antebellum Slave Law Colloquium, Bryan Camp
Teaching America’s Antitrust Laws and Their
Enforcement, Thomas J. Horton
Designing a Course in Judicial Biography, Mae Kuykendall
The Search for National Identity, Sheldon M. Novick
Legal History Seminar: Leading Maryland Cases, Edward C. Papenfuse and Garrett Power
IV. FOREIGN SUBJECT MATTERS
On Teaching the History of International Law, William E. Butler
Hawaii: Pacific Crucible of American Legal History, Williamson B.C. Chang
The Multidimensional Teaching of Legal History, Peter L. Reich
Imagination and Creativity: My History of Marriage Seminar, Charles J. Reid, Jr.
Becoming a Legal History Teacher, Jonathan Rose
V. LAWYERING SKILLS
Teaching Legal History in the Age of Practical
Legal Education, Douglas E. Abrams
Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills, Howard Bromberg
Using History to Teach Students How to be Lawyers, Gregory F. Jacob
Legal History:
Teaching Skills Practicing Lawyers Need, Robert M. Jarvis
The History of Contemporary Law and Policy, Molly Selvin
What the Actions of Abe Lincoln Continue to Teach
Us Today, Michael J. Slinger
