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Engraving by Peter Maverick, 1820, based on a portrait by George Catlin. Reproduced courtesy of the Litchfield Historical Society . Tapping Reeve...
“Advertisement.” In Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School, from 1793 to 1827 inclusive (Litchfield, Conn.: S. S. Smith, 1828). [Image cropped.] Rare...
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Until the end of the nineteenth century most students prepared for the bar through an apprenticeship or self-study. These methods were often...
This afternoon, Jonathan Ng, Global Legal Director of Ashoka (a renowned social entrepreneurship organization), gave YLS students this advice: You can...
A new Yale Law Library exhibit celebrates Connecticut’s role as the birthplace of vocational legal education in the United States. The exhibit, “From...