Arthur Linton Corbin (October 17, 1874 – May 1, 1967) was an American lawyer and legal scholar who was a professor at Yale Law School.
[1] During his time at Yale, he was strongly influential in turning the law school into the center of legal scholarship it is known for today.
He convinced the administration to hire more full-time professors and adopt more selective admission criteria, and he helped to implement and popularize the casebook method of legal study created by Christopher Columbus Langdell at Harvard Law School.
[1] Corbin subscribed to the philosophy of legal realism, the idea that law was the product of human efforts and society.
Corbin's views are frequently contrasted with those of Harvard contracts scholar Samuel Williston, who was more of a formalist in his thinking.