At Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson’s urging, William & Mary’s Board of Visitors reorganizes the College and creates a new chair: Professor of Law and Police. George Wythe, who was Jefferson’s mentor, a Chancery Court judge, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is appointed America’s first law professor and after William Blackstone, the second law professor in the English-speaking world.
Submissions from 1779
At a convocation of the visitors of the college of William and Mary, on the 4th day of December 1779, a statute was passed, of which the following is an extract, College of William & Mary
(The Virginia Gazette, December 18, 1779, at 1)Submissions from 1790
St. George Tucker Law Lectures, circa 1790s, St. George Tucker
Submissions from 1792
Plan for Conferring Degrees on the Students of Law in the University of William and Mary (ca. 1792), St. George Tucker
Submissions from 1813
Resolution by William and Mary students in Regard to the Death of William Nelson, Professor of Law
(Enquirer, March 19, 1813, at 3)Submissions from 1814
(The Enquirer, August 6, 1814 at [4])Publications from 1834
Law Lecture at William and Mary, N. Beverley Tucker
(1 Southern Literary Messenger 145-154 (1834))Publications from 1835
Professor Beverley Tucker's Valedictory Address to his Class, N. Beverley Tucker
(1 Southern Literary Messenger 597-602 (1835))Publications from 1847
Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker
(13 Southern Literary Messenger 568-570 (September 1847))Submissions from 1851
For the Enquirer: The College of William and Mary
(Richmond Enquirer (October 28, 1851))Submissions from 1852
William and Mary College: Law School
(Richmond Enquirer (March 19, 1852)) (Richmond Enquirer (October 26, 1852))Submissions from 1858
The Late Lucian Minor, Editors of the Southern Literary Messenger
(Southern Literary Messenger 225-227 (September, 1858))Submissions from 1860
Law Professor and Preparatory Department of Wm. & Mary
(Virginia Gazette (July 11, 1860))Submissions from 1921
William and Mary's Pioneer American Law School, Robert M. Hughes
(American Bar Association Journal (June 1921))Submissions from 1922
William and Mary, The First American Law School, Robert M. Hughes
(2 William and Mary College Quarterly 2nd 40-48 (1922))American Constitutional Government, Alton B. Parker
(Congressional Record (May 12, 1922))Submissions from 1931
More Anent the First Law School, Theodore S. Cox and Robert M. Hughes
(The Law Student 13-15 (October 1931))Submissions from 1954
Short History of the Marshall Wythe School of Law, Dudley Warner Woodbridge
Submissions from 1970
Law in America's Service: From 1779 to the Present, William & Mary Law School
Submissions from 1979
The History of Legal Education in Virginia, W. Hamilton Bryson
(14 University of Richmond Law Review 155-210 (1979))Submissions from 1983
The Highest Aim, Lisa Heuvel
(1983 Annual Report of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law 5-8)Submissions from 1992
In Celebration of the Bicentennial of America's First Bachelor of Law Degree Recipient, William Cabell, William & Mary LB, 1793, Susan L. Trask
(1992 William & Mary Lawyer 6-10)