TY - JOUR
T1 - Langdell's and Holmes's influence on the institutional and discursive conditions of American legal scholarship
AU - Muñoz León, Fernando
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - Can we expect changes in the organizational structure of law schools to result in changes in the kind of scholarship they produce? This paper opens up that question and suggests an affirmative answer, putting forward the example of the United States. In American law schools, it is argued, the institutional structure set up by C.C. Langdell and the theoretical orientation laid by O.W. Holmes created the conditions for the emergence of forms of scholarship that question the existing legal and power order and confront legal problems in an interdisciplinary form.
AB - Can we expect changes in the organizational structure of law schools to result in changes in the kind of scholarship they produce? This paper opens up that question and suggests an affirmative answer, putting forward the example of the United States. In American law schools, it is argued, the institutional structure set up by C.C. Langdell and the theoretical orientation laid by O.W. Holmes created the conditions for the emergence of forms of scholarship that question the existing legal and power order and confront legal problems in an interdisciplinary form.
KW - Christopher C. Langdell
KW - Institutional autonomy
KW - Justificatory discourses
KW - Legal scholarship
KW - Oliver W. Holmes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80054992991&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4067/s0718-34372011000200002
DO - 10.4067/s0718-34372011000200002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054992991
SN - 0716-0747
VL - 38
SP - 217
EP - 237
JO - Revista Chilena de Derecho
JF - Revista Chilena de Derecho
IS - 2
ER -