. History of the University of Michigan . to this first American Professorship of Law wasfounded in William and Mary College, Vir-ginia, in 1782, arid the first American LawSchool was established at Litchfield, Connecti-cut, in 1783. The dates of other early LawSchools, or Law Professorships are : —The Uni-. IHOJIAS M. COOLEY versify of Pennsylvania, 1790; the HarvardLaw School, 1817; the Columbia Law School,1822. From these later dates onward thenumber of similar schools in the country hassteadily increased until, in 1897-1898, there re-ported to the Bureau of Education 82 LawSchools,
. History of the University of Michigan . to this first American Professorship of Law wasfounded in William and Mary College, Vir-ginia, in 1782, arid the first American LawSchool was established at Litchfield, Connecti-cut, in 1783. The dates of other early LawSchools, or Law Professorships are : —The Uni-. IHOJIAS M. COOLEY versify of Pennsylvania, 1790; the HarvardLaw School, 1817; the Columbia Law School,1822. From these later dates onward thenumber of similar schools in the country hassteadily increased until, in 1897-1898, there re-ported to the Bureau of Education 82 LawSchools, with 845 instructors, 11,615 students,and 3,065 graduates. These statistics betoken agreat revolution in legal education, as well as avast increase in the legal business of the T. M. Cooley is authority for thestatement that the plan offounding a Law School inj Michigan was discussedin Territorial days; butthere is no trace of thesubject in legislation un-til the Organic Act of1837 provided for a LawDepartment in the Uni-versity, as well as De-partments of Literature,Science, and the Arts, andof Medicine and Surgery. fact. Law had prece-dence over Medicine in theAct; but for some reason,as perhaps the greater in-terest in the subject onthe part of the medicalprofession of the state, theright
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