James Barr Ames

James Barr Ames

James Barr Ames (1846–1910) was a U.S. law educator, who popularized the "case-study" method of teaching law developed by Christopher Columbus Langdell. Ames insisted that legal education should require the study of actual cases instead of abstract principles of law. He was instrumental in introducing the case method in the teaching of law, a method in general use by American law schools at the time of his death and today [cite encyclopedia
title = James Barr Ames
encyclopedia = The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
volume = 2
publisher = Columbia University Press
date = 2007
] . He served as dean of Harvard Law School from 1895 to 1910.

Further reading

*Kull, Andrew. "James Barr Ames and the Early Modern History of Unjust Enrichment". 25 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 297 (2005).

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