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Women In The Law: Milestones And Information, Colleen Kristl Pauwels

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Colleen Pauwels was the Director of the Jerome Hall Law for more than 30 years and wrote and researched about the history of the Maurer School of Law. This document details names and dates of major milestones of women in the law from 1892-1988.

Supreme Court Day Program, 1955, The Executive Committee On Program For The Observance Of Supreme Court Day

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Program for the 1955 Supreme Court Day commemorating the first sitting of Indiana Supreme Court justices on May 5, 1817. At this time in 1955, two Indiana law alumni, Hon. Harold E. Achor,LL.B.'31, and Hon. George Washington Henley, Jr.,LL.B.'14, were serving on the Indiana Supreme Court.

Lawyer Population In Indiana, Indiana University

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Preface:

The purpose of this report is to give a comparative picture of the distribution of lawyers throughout the state. The statistics concerning the number of lawyers, their ages, years of service and education are taken from the 1947 Martindale-Hubbell directory.

Indiana University Pro Patria List, Indiana University Alumni Association

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A list compiled by the Indiana University Alumni Association in 1945 of Indiana University affiliates who died in World War II. Each entry contains the following information (if known or applicable): Officer name, rank, division, decorations, cause of death, place of death, place of burial and contact information of family members. There are a total of three hundred and four casualties listed.

Petition Of The John W. Foster Law Club Of Indiana University For A Charter From Phi Delta Phi, John W. Foster Law Club

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Written in 1899, this is the petition of the John W. Foster Law Club of Indiana University to the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity for a charter membership into the organization. The following year marked the establishment of Phi Delta Phi at Indiana University.

A Question, Tamar Althouse

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Tamar Althouse, later to be Tamar Scholz, was the first female student to be enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law, graduating with her LL.B. in 1892. In November of that year she wrote this article (“A Question”) for the student newspaper of the day, The Indiana Student, addressing the importance of educating women.

Biographical Sketches Of Law Department Graduates And Professors (1844-1876), Theophilus A. Wylie

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Excerpts originally published in Indiana University, It's History, 1820. To view the full text of this title go to the HathiTrust here.

Alumni Of The Law Department, 1844-1874, Indiana University

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Names and residences of graduates of the Law Department between the years 1844 and 1874. These pages are a portion of the Report of Indiana University published in 1875.

Journal Of David Mcdonald, David Mcdonald

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Handwritten journal of David McDonald who is recognized as the first Professor of Law at Indiana University. The journal is undated but contains a transcribed article from the Cincinnati Gazette dated April 17, 1865.

McDonald was born in Millersburg, Kentucky and moved to Indiana when he was 14, in 1817. He eventually became a school teacher in Washington, before meeting a local lawyer who encouraged him to study law. He was licensed to practice in the Circuit Courts in 1830. He served as a member of the Indiana Legislature (1833-34) as well as being elected judge of the 10th Circuit …