The American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar publishes an annual Review of Legal Education from which most of these figures are drawn. The number of schools with less than 250 students comes from Association of American Law Schools, Program and Reports of Committees, 1962, p. 85.
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BrosmanP., A.A.L.S. Handbook, 1947, pp. 125–6, quoted in L. Nicholson, The Law Schools of the United States, 1958, p. 2.
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The views expressed are an outgrowth of my attention to legal research as Director of the Walter E. Meyer Research Institute of Law, but they are in no sense a corporate statement. Some of the documentation and qualifications that are excluded here will be found in critical surveys of research that were commissioned and published by the Meyer Institute:
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GeoffreyHazard, Research in Civil Procedure; James F. Hogg, Research in Trusts and the Taxation of Trusts; Herbert L. Packer; The State of Research in Antitrust Law, (all 1963).
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I am under heavy obligations to the work of these colleagues, and also to Professor Leon Lipson and Gerhard Mueller, whose similar studies of research in Contracts and in Criminal Law are nearing publication. For a responsible traditional appraisal of traditional research, see A. J. Harno, “The Law Schools: Centers of Legal Research and Scholarship,” J. of Legal Ed. 12:193 (1959).
