Professor Pirsig began teaching his Judicial Administration Course in 1934 at the University of Minnesota Law School. His case book was published in 1946. He taught the course until the early 1990's.
Dean, Everett Fraser, selected Pirsig to create the course in 1928, according to Fraser, "I believe, this was the first course in any law school that emphasized the defects of the legal process and the duty of lawyers to remedy them."
It was Pirsig's view that the purpose of the law is to advance society, not merely restrain it, and this attitude shaped all his thinking," David Lindberg.
Letter - Request to do research at Harvard Law School, and work in London, c. 1928
Letter - Pirsig's travel letter issued by dean Fraser, 1930