Princeton Law School

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Ivy Hall
The Ivy Club, to which it gave its name, and now home to the choir of Trinity Church, Princeton
Princeton Law School is located in Mercer County, New Jersey
Princeton Law School
Princeton Law School is located in New Jersey
Princeton Law School
Princeton Law School is located in the United States
Princeton Law School
LocationMercer and Alexander St, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates40°20′48.2″N 74°39′53.5″W / 40.346722°N 74.664861°W / 40.346722; -74.664861
Built1846
ArchitectJohn Notman[1]
Architectural styleItalianate
Part ofPrinceton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHPJune 27, 1975

The Law School at the College of New Jersey (now

James S. Green. Only seven students obtained a law degree before the school closed in 1852. The short-lived experiment was the furthest the university got in a recurring ambition, marked by varying levels of effort, to establish a law school
. Previously, in the 1820s, an attempt was made to organize teaching in law, but this plan ended following the death of the designated professor.

In 1935, the university once again formed appreciable plans for the start of a law school but was unable to secure a faculty. In 1974, then president of Princeton, William G. Bowen, selected a committee to investigate and advise on the achievability of a law school. The committee recommended plans for a law school be deferred after citing high construction costs. Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth are the only Ivy League schools to lack a law school.

Mistaken and fictional references

At a press conference of law school deans in 1998 decrying the annual

Law School Rankings, then New York University School of Law Dean John Sexton quipped, "If they were asked about Princeton Law School, it would appear on the top 20 -- but it doesn't exist"[1]
Sexton was denouncing the US News usage of reputation survey results from judges, lawyers and law school deans in its ranking formula, expressing doubt over the expertise of some surveyed.

A 2003 National Review Online commentary blundered when the author, Candace de Russy, identified the law school at Princeton as real: "These yearnings are embodied in a doctrine called ‘transnational progressivism,’ which is gaining prominence in law schools, for example, at Princeton and Rutgers".[2]

Similarly, during the

(JD) from Georgetown University Law Center.[3]

Princeton University does award honorary degrees of law.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University.[4]

Notable faculty

Notes

  1. ^ Jan Hoffman, "Judge Not, Law Schools Demand Of a Magazine That Ranks Them", New York Times, February 19, 1998.

References

  1. doi:10.2307/26403286
    . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. National Review Online. Archived from the original
    on 2003-04-07. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  3. ^ "U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to College students: 'You are our future' | The College | The University of Chicago | The University of Chicago". college.uchicago.edu. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  4. ^ "Seven leaders in arts, humanities, sciences and public affairs receive honorary degrees" (Press release). Princeton University. 2001-06-05. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

Sources

  • Leitch, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press.
    ISBN 0-691-04654-9
    .

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