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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)
contradictory and misleading
Chris Langdell regarded the elucidation of legal truth as a scientific enterprise. By a method of socratic enquiry, he believed that truth would emerge in the manner that succesful biological forms survive across time by a process of natural selection. In this he foreshadows Karl Popper. It is well known that Langdell's Pragmatism was influenced by Darwinian ideas. All of this is very contrary to the notion that he was stuck inside some outmoded sixteenth century rationalism. On the contrary his ideas were very modern and progressive and his case method is the very antithesis of dogmatism.
