The Intellectual Sword

by Bruce A. Kimball, Daniel R. Coquillette

2020 · Harvard University Press

In the early twentieth century, Harvard Law was on the brink of financial and scholarly ruin. Discriminatory, intellectually arid, and nearly broke, the school struggled through World War II. Bruce Kimball and Daniel Coquillette chronicle the downfall and dramatic restoration of HLS as arguably the world’s most influential law school.