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On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century

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Harvard Law School is the oldest and, arguably, probably the most influential law school within the nation. U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, and foreign heads of state, at the side of senators, congressional representatives, social critics, civil rights activists, university presidents, state and federal judges, military generals, novelists, spies, Olympians, film and TV producers, CEOs, and one First Lady have graduated from the school since its founding in 1817.

During its first century, Harvard Law School pioneered revolutionary educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students in response to academic merit. But the school struggled to navigate its way through the many political, social, economic, and legal crises of the century, and it earned both scars and plaudits in consequence. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid, important, definitive account of a unique legal institution all the way through its first century of influence.

Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball examine the school’s ties with institutional slavery, its buffeting between Federalists and Republicans, its deep involvement within the Civil War, its reluctance to admit minorities and women, its anti-Catholicism, and its financial missteps on the turn of the twentieth century. On the Battlefield of Merit brings the story of Harvard Law School as much as 1909―a time when hard-earned accomplishment led to self-satisfaction and vulnerabilities that would in the long run challenge its position as the leading law school within the nation. A second volume will continue this history through the twentieth century.

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