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A Short History And Some Of The Graduates Of The Department Of Law Of The University Of Michigan, Burke A. Hinsdale
A Short History And Some Of The Graduates Of The Department Of Law Of The University Of Michigan, Burke A. Hinsdale
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History of the University of Michigan Law School reprinted from The Michigan Alumnus March, 1908 issue.
Legal Education In The United States, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Legal Education In The United States, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
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The origin of law schools is lost in antiquity. It is probable there were advocates in Babylonia,1 and schools for the education of judges and scribes (perhaps the ancestral lawyers) in Egypt,2 more than 2000 years B.C. The Civil Code of Deuteronomy was published 621 B.C.,3 and soon afterward schools of the prophets were formed for its study.4 When Ezra left Babylon for Jerusalem (485 B.C.) he "set his heart * * * to teach in Jerusalem statutes and judgments,"5 and the ruins of his school could be seen by the law students at Husal, 500 years later.6 It is …