The Arc Continues: Disdaining Langdell From Law Student to Law Professor

 Favorite Carrell at Duke Law From LWI: 

Lecturing Against Langdell at Wake Law:

Not forgetting how our own legal education was watered down by Christopher Columbus Langdell's silly obsession with redacted appellate cases and his silly claim that law practice taints law professors, more and more of us are determined to make a change. Langdell's nonsense also eclipsed the importance of good character, and hopefully more and more of us will speak out on this as well.

From SSRN:

La Bruyère on Human Inconstancy

It's a shame so many Anglophones don't read or even know of La Bruyère.  Here's some food for thought from his clever pen (as translated by Jean Stewart):  "After making a close and mature study of men, and recognizing the wrongness of their thoughts, their feelings, their tastes and affections, one is forced to admit that they have less to lose by inconstancy than by persistence."