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Ivy Hall, built to house the law school, later home to The Ivy Club, to which it gave its name, and now home to the choir of Trinity Church, Princeton
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LocationMercer and Alexander St, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°20′48.2″N74°39′53.5″W / 40.346722°N 74.664861°W / 40.346722; -74.664861
Built1846
Architect John Notman [1]
Architectural style Italianate
Part of Princeton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHPJune 27, 1975

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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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.

Mistaken and fictional references

At a press conference of law school deans in 1998 decrying the annual US News Law School Rankings, then New York University School of Law Dean John Sexton quipped, "If they were asked about Princeton Law School, it would appear on the top 20 -- but it doesn't exist" Sexton was denouncing the US News usage of reputation survey results from judges, lawyers and law school deans in its ranking formula, expressing doubt over the expertise of some surveyed.

A 2003 National Review Online commentary blundered when the author, Candace de Russy, identified the law school at Princeton as real: "These yearnings are embodied in a doctrine called ‘transnational progressivism,’ which is gaining prominence in law schools, for example, at Princeton and Rutgers". [2]

Similarly, during the Senate Judiciary Committee vote for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Sen. Richard Durbin attested that now Justice Alito hailed from "Princeton Law." Alito attended Princeton University for his undergraduate studies, but received his law degree from Yale Law School. Both de Russy and Durbin became cases in point for Sexton's comments, since the former is an academic holding a PhD, while the latter holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Georgetown University Law Center. [3]

Princeton University does award honorary degrees of law. Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University. [4]

Notable faculty

Notes

  1. ^ Jan Hoffman, "Judge Not, Law Schools Demand Of a Magazine That Ranks Them", New York Times, February 19, 1998.

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References

  1. ↑ Dallett, Francis James (1959). "John Notman, Architect". The Princeton University Library Chronicle. 20 (3): 133. doi:10.2307/26403286 . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Candace de Russy (2003-04-07). "Liberate the Universities". National Review Online . Archived from the original on 2003-04-07. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  3. ↑ "U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to College students: 'You are our future' | The College | The University of Chicago | The University of Chicago". college.uchicago.edu. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Seven leaders in arts, humanities, sciences and public affairs receive honorary degrees" (Press release). Princeton University. 2001-06-05. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

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