http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=William_and_Mary,_the_First_American_Law_School&feed=atom&action=historyWilliam and Mary, the First American Law School - Revision history2024-03-29T15:18:30ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.5http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=William_and_Mary,_the_First_American_Law_School&diff=74154&oldid=prevLktesar at 14:07, 25 August 20232023-08-25T14:07:58Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[wikipedia:Robert M. Hughes|Robert Morton Hughes, Sr.]] (1855 &ndash; 1940), was an attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Judge Robert W. Hughes. Hughes attended the College of William &amp; Mary from the age of 15, and received his law degree from the [http://www.law.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia] in 1877. He was a member of the Board of Visitors for William &amp; Mary from 1893 until 1918, also serving as Rector of the College, and was president of the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library from 1921 to 1939. In 1930, Hughes helped create the Norfolk Division of the College of William &amp; Mary, which would later become [http://www.odu.edu/ Old Dominion University.] In 1934, the William &amp; Mary Alumni Association awarded him the first ever alumni medallion, for "sixty-one years of devotion to his Alma Mater...."<ref>James E. Heath, Obituary of Robert M. Hughes, ''Proceedings of the Virginia State Bar Association'' 52 (1940), 124-129.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[wikipedia:Robert M. Hughes|Robert Morton Hughes, Sr.]] (1855 &ndash; 1940), was an attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Judge Robert W. Hughes. Hughes attended the College of William &amp; Mary from the age of 15, and received his law degree from the [http://www.law.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia] in 1877. He was a member of the Board of Visitors for William &amp; Mary from 1893 until 1918, also serving as Rector of the College, and was president of the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library from 1921 to 1939. In 1930, Hughes helped create the Norfolk Division of the College of William &amp; Mary, which would later become [http://www.odu.edu/ Old Dominion University.] In 1934, the William &amp; Mary Alumni Association awarded him the first ever alumni medallion, for "sixty-one years of devotion to his Alma Mater...."<ref>James E. Heath, Obituary of Robert M. Hughes, ''Proceedings of the Virginia State Bar Association'' 52 (1940), 124-129.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Robert M. Hughes, "William and Mary, the First American Law School," ''William and Mary College Quarterly and Historical Magazine'' (2nd Series) 2, no. 1 (January<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>1922), 40-48.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[wikipedia:Robert M. Hughes|Robert Morton Hughes, Sr.]] (1855 &ndash; 1940), was an attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Judge Robert W. Hughes. He attended the College of William &amp; Mary from the age of 15, and received his law degree from the [http://www.law.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia] in 1877. He was a member of the Board of Visitors for William &amp; Mary from 1893 until 1918, also serving as Rector of the College, and served on the Board of the Norfolk Public Library from 1921 to 1939. In 1934, the William &amp; Mary Alumni Association awarded him the first ever alumni medallion, for "sixty-one years of devotion to his Alma Mater...."</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1921, after reading an article in the ''American Bar Association Journal'' by [[wikipedia:Hampton L. Carson (lawyer)|Hampton L. Carson]], regarding [[wikipedia:James Wilson|James Wilson's]] law lectures in the early 1790s at the [[wikipedia:The Academy and College of Philadelphia|Academy and College of Philadelphia]],<ref>Hampton L. Carson, "James Wilson and James Iredell a Parallel and a Contrast," ''American Bar Association Journal'' 7, no. 3 (March 1921), 123-131.</ref> Hughes wrote to Carson to refute Carson's statement that Wilson's tenure constituted the "first publicly established law school in the United States." Carson eventually conceded to Hughes' assertion that William &amp; Mary was the first law school in America.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hon. Hampton L. Carson, in his interesting article on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[wikipedia:</del>James Wilson<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|James Wilson]] </del>and [[wikipedia:James Iredell|James Iredell]], published in the March number of the ''American Bar Association Journal,'' says:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hon. Hampton L. Carson, in his interesting article on James Wilson and [[wikipedia:James Iredell|James Iredell]], published in the March number of the ''American Bar Association Journal,'' says:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"In 1790 he (James Wilson) was chosen as Professor of Law in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[wikipedia:The Academy and College of Philadelphia|</del>University of Pennsylvania<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>&mdash;the first publicly established law school in the United States."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"In 1790 he (James Wilson) was chosen as Professor of Law in the University of Pennsylvania&mdash;the first publicly established law school in the United States."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I presume Mr. Carson intends by the expression "publicly established" the first law school in a public institution or established by public authority, as distinguished from one run as a private enterprise, like the [[wikipedia:Litchfield Law School|Litchfield School]] in Connecticut. In any event, that is the construction which would usually be put upon his language.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I presume Mr. Carson intends by the expression "publicly established" the first law school in a public institution or established by public authority, as distinguished from one run as a private enterprise, like the [[wikipedia:Litchfield Law School|Litchfield School]] in Connecticut. In any event, that is the construction which would usually be put upon his language.</div></td></tr>
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