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"However, Langdellianism failed to keep pace with rapid social change in the beginning of the century due to its insistence on timeless principles. It became less relevant as a swiftly changing polity required a new legal architecture and jurisprudential modality to develop rules more consonant with the reality of legal process. The notion that sixteenth century legal decisions would continue to govern life in the post-industrial world could simply not be sustained."
That sounds like opinion. The fact that Langdell's theories became less popular should be enough, the requirements of a polity for various forms of legal architecture and jurisprudential modality is hardly so rigorously established that it qualifies as encyclopedic knowledge. If someone is quoted as saying something, that would be a fact that could be noted.
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"However, Langdellianism failed to keep pace with rapid social change in the beginning of the century due to its insistence on timeless principles. It became less relevant as a swiftly changing polity required a new legal architecture and jurisprudential modality to develop rules more consonant with the reality of legal process. The notion that sixteenth century legal decisions would continue to govern life in the post-industrial world could simply not be sustained."
That sounds like opinion. The fact that Langdell's theories became less popular should be enough, the requirements of a polity for various forms of legal architecture and jurisprudential modality is hardly so rigorously established that it qualifies as encyclopedic knowledge. If someone is quoted as saying something, that would be a fact that could be noted.
TGGP (talk) 03:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
