To: kenavi
No, it’s true. Harvard had common law courses as a requirement for freshman law students. Those were replaced under Kagan’s revision of the curriculum, by positive law and international law.
Common law had been basic to all legal training at least back to the time of Magna Carta.
And the curriculum revision was especially disastrous because Harvard tends to be a model for other law schools.
74 posted on
05/01/2012 7:40:30 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
Thanks. I was addressing the contention that Kagan had dropped constitutional law.
I appreciate though your emphasizing that she dropped "common law", in favor of international law and "positive" law. This looks like a dangerous shift from the common law and natural law traditions of anglo-saxon jurisprudence, and for that matter from Mosaic law and its interpretations, both of which underlie what makes America at once unique and universal.
103 posted on
05/02/2012 7:14:30 AM PDT by
kenavi
(1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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