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The Intellectual Sword

Harvard Law School, the Second Century

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HARDCOVER

$49.95 • £39.95 • €45.00

ISBN 9780674737327

Publication Date: 05/26/2020

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880 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

64 photos, 11 illus.

Belknap Press

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“A major work of scholarship—forceful, original, compelling, and highly readable. The stories of the administration of Harvard Law School, of the rise and fall of its deans and their many tribulations, make for high drama. And the school itself is of course one of the key institutions of higher education and the legal profession, not only for its own achievements and standing, but because of its enormous influence on other schools.”—Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School

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