The historian Robert Stevens wrote that "it was Langdell's goal to turn the legal profession into a university educated one—and not at the undergraduate level, but through a three-year post baccalaureate degree."
歷史學家Robert Stevens寫道：「Langdell的目標是把法律教育變為大學教育——不是在大學階段，而是學士後的三年學習。