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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
William & Mary Stakes Claim As Oldest University In America, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
William & Mary Stakes Claim As Oldest University In America, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
Popular Media
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Who Can Claim To Be The United States' First University?, Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Katharine Ello, Elsbeth O'Brien
Who Can Claim To Be The United States' First University?, Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Katharine Ello, Elsbeth O'Brien
Popular Media
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A University In 1693: New Light On William & Mary's Claim To The Title "Oldest University In The United States", Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Katharine Ello, Elsbeth O'Brien
A University In 1693: New Light On William & Mary's Claim To The Title "Oldest University In The United States", Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Katharine Ello, Elsbeth O'Brien
William & Mary Law Review Online
William & Mary has traditionally dated its transformation from a college into a university to a set of reforms of December 4, 1779. On that date, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow members of the Board of Visitors reorganized William & Mary, eliminating the grammar school and the two chairs in divinity and creating chairs in law, modern languages, and medicine.Five days after the reforms were adopted, a William & Mary student wrote that “William & Mary has undergone a very considerable Revolution; the Visitors met on the 4th Instant and form’d it into a University....” Just over three years later, …
English Justices And Roman Jurists: The Civilian Learning Behind England's First Case Law, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
English Justices And Roman Jurists: The Civilian Learning Behind England's First Case Law, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
Faculty Publications
Article looks at a historical problem—the first use of case law by English royal justices in the thirteenth century—and makes it a starting point for thinking about the ways legal reasoning works in the modern common law. In the first Part of the Article, I show that, at its origin, the English justices’ use of decided cases as a source of law was inspired by the work civil and canon law scholars were doing with written authorities in the medieval universities. In an attempt to make the case that English law was on par with civil law and canon law, …
The Present State Of Europe, N. Beverley Tucker
The Present State Of Europe, N. Beverley Tucker
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Book Review Of The History Of England, From The Accession Of James Ii, N. Beverley Tucker
Book Review Of The History Of England, From The Accession Of James Ii, N. Beverley Tucker
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Hallam's Middle Ages, Lucian Minor
Book Review Of Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson's The Beauties Of The Court Of Charles The Second, N. Beverley Tucker
Book Review Of Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson's The Beauties Of The Court Of Charles The Second, N. Beverley Tucker
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