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Professor Langdell vs. the Feminine Mind

“Journey with our Fearless Explorer into the carnivorous depths of the Feminine Mind!” (A still from Nara Denning’s film, “Neurotique.” Image and review found at The Moving Arts Film Journal, themovingarts.com.)

“[T]he law is entirely unfit for the feminine mind—more so than any other subject . . . .”

—Professor Christopher Langdell (as attributed by Charles W. Eliot).

See Bruce A. Kimball and Brian S. Shull, The Ironical Exclusion of Women from Harvard Law School, 1870-1900,  58 J. Legal Educ. 26 (2008).

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