近半个世纪以来,美国学者习惯于将美国法律教育与法理学的发展划分为不同时期。尽管观点各异,但或可达成共识的是分为以下三个阶段:第一个时期是从18世纪80年代独立战争结束至19世纪60年代南北战争爆发。在这一时期,逐渐发展形成了一个鲜明的法律职业,产生了第一代美国本土法律学者。与此同时,普通法法院努力推动社会与经济的发展,逐渐打破纯粹依据先例裁决案件的司法传统,开始基 For nearly half a century, American scholars have been accustomed to dividing the development of legal education and jurisprudence in the United States into different periods. Despite their differing views, the consensus is divided into the following three stages: The first period started from the end of the War of Independence in the 1880s to the Civil War in the 1860s. During this period, gradual development formed a distinctive legal profession, which produced the first generation of native law scholars in the United States. At the same time, the common law courts have worked hard to promote social and economic development, gradually breaking the judicial tradition of judging cases based on precedents only