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.
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
1790
St. George Tucker Law Lectures, circa 1790s, St. George Tucker
1792
Plan for Conferring Degrees on the Students of Law in the University of William and Mary (ca. 1792), St. George Tucker
1813
Resolution by William and Mary students in Regard to the Death of William Nelson, Professor of Law
Enquirer, March 19, 1813, at 3
1814
William and Mary College
The Enquirer, August 6, 1814 at [4]
1834
Law Lecture at William and Mary, N. Beverley Tucker
1 Southern Literary Messenger 145-154 (1834)
1835
Professor Beverley Tucker's Valedictory Address to his Class, N. Beverley Tucker
1 Southern Literary Messenger 597-602 (1835)
1847
Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker
13 Southern Literary Messenger 568-570 (September 1847)
1851
For the Enquirer: The College of William and Mary
Richmond Enquirer (October 28, 1851)
1852
William and Mary College: Law School
Richmond Enquirer (March 19, 1852)
William and Mary College
Richmond Enquirer (October 26, 1852)
1858
The Late Lucian Minor, Editors of the Southern Literary Messenger
Southern Literary Messenger 225-227 (September, 1858)
1860
Law Professor and Preparatory Department of Wm. & Mary
Virginia Gazette (July 11, 1860)