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Harvard Law School's founding is traced to the establishment of a 'law department' at Harvard in 1819. Dating the founding to the year of the creation of the law department makes Harvard Law School the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
- 1817; 206 years ago
- John F. Manning
- Lex et Iustitia (Law and Justice)
Sep 13, 2017 · On Sept. 5, at the opening of its Bicentennial observance, Harvard Law School unveiled a memorial to the enslaved people whose labor helped make possible the founding of the school. “As established as this school seems today, during its first 50 years it was a very high-risk venture that nearly failed, not once, but twice,” noted Coquillette.
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Mar 14, 2024 · 1870-1895 Christopher Columbus Langdell 1895-1910 James Barr Ames 1909-1910 Samuel Williston* 1910-1915 Ezra Ripley Thayer (died September 14, 1915) 1915-1916 Austin Wakeman Scott*
- Lesley Schoenfeld
- 2013
First, HLS would be a professional school within a degree-granting university, an idea that originated in 1817. (Until the mid-19th century, most lawyers trained as apprentices or at lecture-based proprietary law schools.) Second, it would defy the notion that all law was local.
Nov 24, 2014 · Everyone knew who Madison was named after—the fourth president of the U.S., James Madison—but few knew the origin of the county’s name. When Kiefer arrived at Harvard in 1995 and found himself living in Dane Hall, the former history major’s mind began to make connections. With a little digging, Kiefer discovered that Dane, a Harvard ...
On April 17, 1816, in his Harvard Hall inaugural speech as the first Royall Professor of Law, Judge Isaac Parker made an early suggestion of the establishment of what would become Harvard Law School.
The History of Harvard Law School. Sep 5 | 5:00 - 6:30pm WCC Milstein West, Harvard Law School. View Details. Dan Coquillette discussed the founding of Harvard Law School and the early years, leading up to the Civil War, followed by commentary and discussion with a panel of HLS faculty and closing remarks by Dean John F. Manning.
