The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education

Abstract

Thomas Jefferson had the idea, and he was the first to act upon it.'In 1779, as Governor of Virginia, he caused the governing board of the College of William and Mary 2 to establish a professorship of "Law and Police." 3 His purpose was to provide moral training to fit an elite responsible for political leadership in a new republic.Jefferson was not alone in the thought.His generation of Americans had read and absorbed Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws as

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