Legal history serves important law and in legal education. Lawyers often employ history in fashioning arguments before the courts. Judges often invoke history in explaining the legal results they reach in specific cases. The important roles legal history plays in the legal process is one reason law schools offer courses in the subject. Legal history courses enable students to investigate the origins and evolution of legal doctrines, to explore the intent or understanding behind particular statutes and constitutional provisions, and to reassess landmark decisions. More importantly, legal history offers students an interdisciplinary perspective on law with which they can better understand specific fields of law and legal doctrines, different approaches to legal reasoning, and law as a profession. This perspective will enable students to use more effectively the legal knowledge and legal skills they acquire in law school.