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“The Highest Legal Ability in the Nation”: Langdell on Wall Street, 1855–1870

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Bruce A. Kimball  and
R. Blake Brown
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , Winter 2004 , pp. 39 - 104
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