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The New Deal and the prospect of ready employment in government attracted many practicing attorneys and quite a few law professors, some of whom would return to teaching determined to "modernize" the law school curriculum. Until the late 1920s the study of law emphasized the analysis of established legal principles and the rules and legal customs that governed their interpretation and application. Law was viewed as a closed system, providing answers to all questions in the form of legal precedent. But efforts were under way to develop a new mode of training lawyers: an approach that focused narrowly upon the use of multidisciplinary tools and the collection of data to understand and evaluate legal systems. Among the legal scholars who were first to promote this concept were Jerome Frank of the Yale Law School and Karl Llewellyn of Columbia University. In...
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