Inaugural Addresses Delivered By The Professors Of Law In The University Of The City Of New York At The Opening Of The Law School Of That Institution

Excerpt from Inaugural Addresses: Delivered by the Professors of Law, in the University of the City of New-York; At the Opening of the Law School of That Institution The establishment of a Law Faculty formed a part of the original design of the University of the City of New-York; and as early as 1835, a plan for this purpose, drawn up by Mr. Butler, the present Principal of the Faculty, was adopted by the Council. The official engagements of that gentleman, not allowing him to enter on the duties of his Professorship until the present year, and the Council not wishing to lose his services in the school, its complete organization has been accordingly delayed. The Faculty consists of the following Professors: - Benjamin F. Butler, Professor of General Law, and of the Law of Real Property, and Principal of the Faculty. William Kent, Professor of the Law of Persons and Personal Property; and David Graham, Junior, Professor of the Law of Pleading and Practice. The School is divided into three Departments - a Department of Practice and Pleading; another of the Law of Persons and Personal Property including Commercial Law; and a third of the Law of Real Property and of Equity; - under the care of the Professors above named respectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promoted as the best preparation for admission to the bar. William P. LaPiana provides an in-depth study of the intellectual history of the transformation of American legal education during this period. In the process, he offers a revisionist portrait of Langdell, the Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1900, and the earliest proponent for the modern method of legal education, as well as portraying for the first time the opposition to the changes at Harvard.