Identifier: universityofpenn02nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: the proceedings at the dedication of the new building of the Department of law, February 21st and 22nd, 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- comp. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pennsylvania. University. Dept. of law. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Press of international printing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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GEORGE W. BIDDLE 1818-1897 JAMES E. GOWEN 1830-1885 Upon the four walls above the main staircase areinscribed these words :— THE LAW IS UNKNOWN TO HIH THAT KNOWETH NOTTHE REASON THEREOF, AND THE KNOWNE CERTAINTIEOF THE LAW IS THE SAFTIE OF ALL:—COKE.
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JAMKS WII^SON, IvIy.D. First Professor of I<aw. From the Original, Painted by Albert Rosenthal for the Law School in i8gg, from a minature in possession of Tlwmas H. Montgomery. HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW. COMPILED BYMARGARET CENTER KLINGELSMITH. The old academy of Philadelphia was restored to allits rights and privileges by the Act of 1789, and amongthe students an association was formed for the study ofthe law. They were without a teacher or any regularcourse of study, but had attracted to themselves thenotice of the trustees of the Academy by a request thatthey might hold their meetings in one of the rooms of thecollege. This request, made in 1789, was granted, andthe fact that a regular course in the study of the law wasneeded became manifest. Mr. Charles Smith, editor of theedition of the early laws of Pennsylvania, now known asSmiths Laws, applied to the trustees of the college for anappointment to a professorship of the law in that institu-tion. A few days after the co

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