He objected to traditional shibboleths regarding the importance of a university education or of using the Roman civil law or morality (such as some version of Natural Law) as a propaedeutic. From first to last Holmes sought for law (and lawyers) to grow more civilized. Holmes articulated his basic conception that the legal profession had to refine its sense of the different interests at stake and how they could best be proportioned. The rise of the modern law school necessitated the reformulation of law itself. This part begins by exploring those differences and their implications for legal pedagogy. Both Holmes and Langdell recognized the primacy of procedure but differed in how they understood the development of legal doctrine from that common starting point.
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