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The University Of Georgia School Of Law And Early Legal Education, Paul Deforest Hicks
The University Of Georgia School Of Law And Early Legal Education, Paul Deforest Hicks
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The history of the University of Georgia School of Law examines how developments in American legal education and local attitudes and traditions influenced its formative years. Founded in 1859 as the Lumpkin Law School, it was among the newest of 21 university law schools (those that awarded law degrees) on the eve of the Civil War.
To head the revived law school, the UGA board of trustees chose William L. Mitchell. As chairman of the board’s Prudential Committee, he was a principal architect of the 1859 reorganization of the university that included creation of the law school.
Almost all southern …