THE LAW SCHOOL I. OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION The President of the University, WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER, Haskell Museum, First Floor, Room 10. II. THE FACULTY WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER, PH.D., D.D., LL.D., President of the University. ERNST FREUND, PH.D., J.U.D., Professor of Law. HORACE KENT TENNEY, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law. JULIAN WILLIAM MACK, LL.B., Professor of Law. CLARKE BUTLER WHITTIER, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law. HARRY AUGUSTUS BIGELOW, A.B., LL.B., Assistant Professor of Law. HENRY VARNUM FREEMAN, A.M., Professorial Lecturer on Legal Ethics. CHARLES EDWARD KREMER, Professorial Lecturer on Admiralty Law. FRANCIS WARNER PARKER, A.B., LL.B., Professorial Lecturer on Patent Law. FRANK FREMONT REED, A.B., Professorial Lecturer on Copyright and Trade Mark Law. JOHN MAXCY ZANE, A.B., Professorial Lecturer on Mining and Irrigation Law. PERCY BERNARD ECKHART, PH.В., LL.B., Lecturer on Public Service Companies and Carriers, and Damages. EMLIN MCCLAIN, A.M., LL.B., LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa, late Professor of Law and Chancellor of the College of Law, University of Iowa (Summer Quarter, 1905). NATHAN ABBOTT, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law and Dean of the Law Department, Leland Stanford Jr. University (Summer Quarter, 1905). HORACE LAFAYETTE WILGUS, M.S., Professor of Law, University of Michigan (Summer Quarter, 1905). JAMES BROWN SCOTT, A.M., J.U.D., Professor of Law, Columbia University (Summer Quarter, 1905). FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHENK, Librarian. III. ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT The Law School of the University of Chicago was established in 1902. Its purpose is to give a thorough legal training to students whose education and maturity have fitted them to pursue serious professional study. The method of instruction-the study of cases -is designed to give an effective knowledge of legal principles and to develop the power of independent legal reasoning. The course of study offered, requiring three academic years for completion, is not local in its scope, but constitutes a thorough preparation for the practice of law in any English-speaking jurisdiction. By taking advantage of the Quarter system (see "General Information," p. 97, below) students may complete the course in two and one-fourth calendar years. Only college graduates or students who have had college work equivalent to three years in the University are admitted as regular students, candidates for the degree of Doctor of Law (J. D.)* The University permits one year of law to be counted as the fourth year of college work, and confers an academic Bachelor's degree upon candidates for J.D. who have completed one year in the Law School, thus enabling them to obtain both the academic and the professional degree in six years. Mature students of promising ability who cannot meet the above requirements may be admitted as candidates for the degree of THE LAW The Law School occupies a new building within the University Quadrangles, erected especially for it in 1904. It is three stories high, 175 feet long and 80 feet wide, built of stone in the English Gothic style of architecture. On the first floor are four lecturerooms, two of which are in amphitheater form. The mezzanine floor is occupied by the library stack-room, connected with the reading-room above by electric book lifts and designed to contain steel stacks for 90,000 volumes. Opening into the stack-room are studies for members of the Faculty. On the third floor is the reading-room, a great hall with high tim Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) upon the conditions stated below, p. 95, under " Admission Requirements" and "Degrees." It being very desirable that the preliminary education of law students should include work in History, Economics, and Political Science, provision has been made in the third college year for pre-legal study devoted chiefly to these subjects. This course is not required, but students expecting to study law are strongly advised to pursue it. Its suggested topics are found under "Pre-Legal Courses” in Part III of this Register. BUILDING bered ceiling, 160 feet long and 50 feet wide, lighted on all sides by Gothic windows. It has wall shelves for 14,000 books and provides space for tables accommodating over 400 readers. Adjoining the readingroom is the office of the Dean. In the basement is a smoking-room, and the locker-room containing several hundred steel-mesh lockers for the use of students. The building is artificially ventilated, is provided with an interior telephone system, and is lighted by electricity throughout. In every respect it is one of the most completely equipped buildings devoted to the study of law in this country. THE LIBRARY The Law Library contains 25,000 volumes. Except a few county court decisions, it includes all of the American, English, Irish, Scotch, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and higher Indian reports, with their digests; all past and present codes and statutory revisions of those jurisdictions; all English, Irish, and Scotch statutes, and (except the early laws of some of the older states) the session laws of all the American states and Canadian provinces; all collateral reports and series of classified cases in current use; an extensive collection of treatises, periodicals, trials, and legal miscellany; and a working library in French, German, Spanish, and Mexican law. Students in the Law School have the right to use the other University libraries, containing about 375,000 volumes. PRACTICE COURSES, MOOT COURTS, AND PUBLIC SPEAKING To familiarize students with the more generally prevailing rules of procedure in American courts, courses in Practice are offered continuing through two years. The course for second-year students deals with proceedings in suits before judgment; and the course for third-year students includes judgments, their enforcement and review, various special proceedings, and the preparation of briefs and arguments. The courses are thoroughly practical and include the drawing of all papers used in court proceedings. Both courses are required of all law students. A number of law clubs exist which hold Moot Courts with the advice and assistance of members of the Faculty. Students are encouraged to form or join these bodies and to take part in their proceedings. The University courses in Public Speaking and Debate are open without extra charge to students of the Law School, and the latter maintain one of the University debating societies. Law students are eligible for the University prize debates, and for places upon the intercollegiate debating teams. *This form of degree (Juris Doctor) has been chosen as appropriate for graduate professional work, after consultation with other graduate law schools and in the expectation of its adoption by them in the near future. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS ADMISSION TO THE PRE-LEGAL COURSE Admission to the pre-legal course is granted to students who have completed in the University or elsewhere at least eighteen Majors (two years) of college work. Credit will be given for acceptable work done in other institutions of collegiate rank. Such students, after completing enough pre-legal work (see "Pre-Legal Courses," Part III of this Register to give them altogether twenty-seven Majors (three years) of credit in the University, will be admitted to the Law School as candidates for the degree of Doctor of Law (J.D.). Upon the completion of one year of law and the satisfaction of the requirements stated below, under "Degrees," they will receive an academic Bachelor's degree from the University. The pre-legal course is not required for admission to the Law School, but students intending to study law are strongly advised to pursue this course in their third college year and to choose their Junior College electives with this view. ADMISSION TO THE LAW SCHOOL a) Admission to the Law School as candidates for the degree of J.D. is granted: 1. To college graduates whose degrees represent college work equivalent to twenty-seven Majors (three years) in the University. 2. To students who have completed in the University or elsewhere twenty-seven Majors (three years) of college work. Credit will be given for acceptable work done in other institutions of collegiate rank. Before receiving the degree of J.D. such students must obtain from the University an academic degree,† and are permitted to count toward this one year of law. The requirements for academic degrees will be found below, under " Degrees." b) Admission to the Law School as candidates for the degree of LL.B. is granted: 1. To students over twenty-one years old who have completed high-school or college work equivalent to 15 units of admission credit to the Junior Colleges of the University (the usual college entrance requirement-ordinarily satisfied by four years of high-school work). The degree is granted to those only who complete the course with a high average standing. c) Unclassified students.—In rare instances students over twenty-one years old who cannot meet the above requirements will be admitted as unclassified students, if the Law Faculty are convinced that their previous training will enable them satisfactorily to pursue the work. Such students are not candidates for a degree. ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING Students from other law schools of high grade who are otherwise qualified to enter the School, will ordinarily receive credit (not exceeding two years) for work and residence satisfactorily completed at such schools corresponding in amount and character to that required at this School. The right is reserved to refuse such credit, in whole or in part, save upon examination. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws must be twenty-two years old to be admitted to second-year standing, and twenty-three years old to be admitted to third-year standing. No credit will be given for work not done in residence at a law school. DEGREES The University confers the degree of A.B., Ph.B., or S.B. upon law students admitted to candidacy for the degree of J.D. who have completed nine Majors (one year) of work in the Law School, and, in addition to the admission requirements to a Junior College, have satisfied one of the following requirements: 1. Students who have pursued all their college work in the University must complete the courses prescribed for the Junior College in which they are registered. 2. Students admitted to the University with less than eighteen Majors (two years) of credit from other colleges must make up the deficiency below eighteen Majors by taking prescribed Junior College work for which they have not credit; above eighteen Majors, pre-legal courses may be taken to satisfy any further deficiencies in prescribed work, except English. 3. Students admitted to the University with at least eighteen Majors (two years) of credit from other colleges are required to complete only enough college By special permission of the Dean admission may be granted to students who have credit for but twenty-four Majors, but such students must make up the deficiency before obtaining an academic degree from the University. Such permission will ordinarily be granted only in the Autumn Quarter to enable students to take advantage of courses beginning then. (See "The Quarter System," p. 97, below.) † Such a degree from any other institution, if representing twenty-seven Majors of work, will be accepted. work to give them altogether twenty-seven Majors, and may take pre-legal courses to satisfy any deficiencies in prescribed work, except English. Students already holding degrees from other colleges may obtain an academic degree from the University upon satisfying the above requirements. The degree of Doctor of Law (J.D.) is conferred upon candidates therefor who are college graduates and have completed the three-year professional course. The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) is conferred upon candidates therefor who have completed the professional course with a high average standing. To obtain either of the professional degrees it is necessary to complete twenty-seven Majors of law work, distributed over nine Quarters of law school residence, of which at least nine Majors of work and three Quarters of residence (including the last Quarter for which credit is given) must have been at this School. The required Practice courses must also be taken. Candidates for either of the professional degrees who complete the course with high distinction will receive the degree cum laude. No professional degree will be conferred upon any student markedly deficient in English, and no student may receive both an academic and a professional degree in the same Quarter. FEES 1. Matriculation fee.- A matriculation fee of $5 is required of every student entering the University for the first time. 2. Tuition fee.-The tuition fee in the Law School is $50 a Quarter ($25 a Term) for regular work (three Majors). Students who take half work or less pay half fees. There is no extra charge to students registered in, the Law School for extra work taken with the consent of the Dean. Students not registered in the Law School must pay $5 a Major extra for each law course taken, except required law courses taken by fourth-year students registered in the College of Commerce and Administration, and law courses offered by members of the Department of Political Science as part of the work of that Department. Undergraduate students not registered in the Law School must pay $20 for each Major law course taken as extra work. For the pre-legal course the tuition fee is $40 a Quarter for regular work. For extra work $15 a Major is charged. 3. Diploma fee.-The charge for the diploma of the University is $10. 4. Payment of bills.— All tuition fees are due and payable on or before the FIRST day of each Quarter to 'the REGISTRAR, Cobb Lecture Hall, Room A7. SCHOLARSHIPS A small number of scholarships, each yielding the tuition fees for an academic year (three Quarters), are awarded annually to meritorious members of the Law School needing such assistance, in return for service in the Law Library. A preference is given to students of high rank. Scholarships for the Summer Quarter are awarded separately upon similar terms. All applications for scholarships for the Summer Quarter and for the succeeding year, accompanied by such statements and recommendations as may be proper, should be made in writing to the Dean before June 1. REGULATIONS Law students who are candidates for an academic degree from the University must conform to the general rules and regulations governing Senior College students. A number of these rules are waived in the case of students already holding college degrees representing twenty-seven Majors of work. To obtain credit for any work done in the School it is necessary to pass the regular examinations. No special examinations will be held, nor will partial credit be given for any uncompleted course, or for one in which the student has failed in the examination. Additional examinations in first-year subjects will be held the last week in September for admission to advanced standing and for the removal of conditions. Application for admission to these examinations should be made not later than September 15. Other conditions may be removed at the next regular examination. All examinations are by printed questions to be answered in writing. Regular attendance at class exercises is required as a condition of receiving credit for work done, and the privilege of membership in the School may be withdrawn for unsatisfactory work or attendance. The work of the first year and the Practice courses are required. The second and third-year courses are elective and need not be taken in any fixed order. Students are advised to postpone starred (*) courses to the third year. In any one Quarter first-year students may not register for more than three Majors, nor other stu THE QUARTER SYSTEM dents for more than three and one-half Majors of work, without the consent of the Dean. Students may not take examinations (except to remove conditions) in more than ten and one-half Majors of resident work in any three consecutive Quarters. GENERAL INFORMATION The system prevailing in the University of dividing the work into Quarters is adopted in the Law School. The Quarters are designated as the Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters, beginning respectively in 1905-6 on June 17, October 2, January 2, and April 2. Each Quarter is eleven to twelve weeks long, and is divided into two Terms. A recess of about one week occurs between the end of each Quarter and the beginning of the next, except that there is no recess between the end of the Spring and the beginning of the Summer Quarter, and that there is a recess during September at the end of the Summer Quarter. Any three Quarters count as an academic year, and it is thus possible to complete the three-year law course in two and one-fourth calendar years. The work in the Law School is so arranged that it is very much better for beginning first-year students to enter at the opening of the Summer or Autumn Quarters than at any other time. The beginning courses given then are not repeated later, and while it is possible for such students to enter in the Winter, they are often unable then to obtain full work for which they are prepared. Senior College students should plan their work to enter the Law School in June or October. Students admitted to advanced standing may usually enter without difficulty in the middle of the Winter Quarter, or at the beginning of any Quarter. ROUTINE OF ENTRANCE Applications and correspondence should be addressed to the DEAN OF THE LAW SCHOOL, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. A student from another institution should present his diploma; or, if he does not hold a degree equivalent to three years of college work in the University, he should bring a detailed statement of his work. Blank forms for such statements will be sent upon application. All credentials should be presented at the office of the Dean. In case of doubt, correspondence is invited upon these matters before the student presents himself for admission. Directions for matriculation and registration will be furnished in the Dean's office. OTHER INFORMATION For information regarding Majors and Minors; regarding rooms, board, expenses, and opportunities to students for self-help; and regarding University privileges and other general matters, see this Register, pp. 57, 79. |