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Occasional Publications Of The Bounds Law Library, Number Two: Wade Keyes' Introductory Lecture To The Montgomery Law School: Legal Education In Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama, David I. Durham, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., Wade Keyes
Occasional Publications Of The Bounds Law Library, Number Two: Wade Keyes' Introductory Lecture To The Montgomery Law School: Legal Education In Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama, David I. Durham, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., Wade Keyes
Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library
Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Two contains a biography of Wade Keyes (1821-1979) - Alabama chancellor, scholar, and teacher, a brief history of the Montgomery Law School, and the lecture given by Keyes in March 1860 to the Montgomery Law School class on their first day. Keyes' founded the Montgomery Law School as an expansion of his classes on property law, which he began teaching during his stint as Chancellor of the Southern Division of the Court of Chancery between 1853 and 1859. The school was incorporated into the University of Alabama in 1860.