Princeton Law School
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The Law School at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was a department of Princeton University from 1847 until 1852. It began instruction in 1847 as a modest effort consisting of three professors: Joseph Coerten Hornblower, Richard Stockton Field, and 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.
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Ivy Hall | |
Location | Mercer and Alexander St, Princeton, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 40°20′48.2″N 74°39′53.5″W |
Built | 1846 |
Architect | John Notman[1] |
Architectural style | Italianate |
Part of | Princeton Historic District (ID75001143) |
Added to NRHP | June 27, 1975 |
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.