Cases on the Law of Carriers: Selected from Decisions of English and American Courts (Classic Reprint)

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The only serious objections made to the case method are that it takes too much time to give a student the requisite knowledge of the sub jcet in this way and that the system loses sight of the difference be tween the preparation oi the student and the lifelong training of the lawyer. Many collections of cases seem Open to these objections, for they are so bulky that it is impossible to cover a particular sub jcet with them in the time ordinarily allotted to it in the class. In this way the student discusses only a part of a subject. His knowl edge is thorough as far as it goes, but it is incomplete and frag mentary. The knowledge of the subject as a whole is deliberately sacrificed to training in a part of the subject.

It would seem axiomatic that the size of the casebook should cor respond in general to the amount of time at the disposal of instructor and student. As the time element is, in most cases, a nonexpansive quantity, it necessarily follows that, if only a half to two-thirds of the cases in the present collections can be discussed in class, the pres ent casebooks are a third to a half too long. From a purely practical and economic standpoint it is a mistake to ask students to pay for pages when they can only use 600, and it must be remembered that in many schools, and with many students in all schools, the mat ter of the cost of casebooks is important. Therefore, for purely practical reasons, it is believed that there is a demand for casebooks physically adapted and intended for use as a whole in the class-room.

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