当今美国的法律教育模式由朗道尔在1870年以后在哈佛法学院创立的哈佛模式发展而来。该模式的基本特点是:(1)法律教育是以隶属于大学、三年学制研究生层次的法学院为主体的职业教育训练;(2)各法学院的法律教育采用案例教学法;(3)课堂上(尤其一年级的基础课上)主要采用苏格拉底式诘问法教学,而非讲授式。其中,案例教学法可谓核心。但在朗道尔之前(即1870年以前)的哈佛模式主要有四种:(1)法 Today’s legal education model in the United States evolves from the Harvard model founded by Lang Doer at Harvard Law School after 1870. The basic characteristics of the model are as follows: (1) Legal education is a vocational education training based on the law school which belongs to the university and three-year postgraduate level; (2) Case law is adopted for legal education in law schools; (3) Classroom (especially in the first grade basic class) is mainly Socratic teaching rather than teaching. Among them, the case teaching method can be described as the core. However, there are four main types of Harvard models before Randall (that is, before 1870): (1)