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XIX APRIL 1919 No. 4 THE LAW SCHOOL 1919-1920 THE UNIVERSITY OP CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Published by the University of Chicago six times a year: January, March x, March 35, Aprii, May, June Entered as second-class matter December 20,1912, at the Post-office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of August 24, xgia CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1919-20 1919 June 10 Tuesday Summer Convocation June 13 Friday Spring Quarter ends June 12 Thursday / Registration of new studente in Law School for Summer to June 16 Monday t Quarter June 16 Monday Summer Quarter begins July 4 Friday Celebration of Independence Day: a holiday ( First Term of Summer Quarter ends July 23 Wednesday •J Registration of new studente in Law School for Second July Thursday ( Term of Summer Quarter H Second Term of Summer Quarter begins Aug. 29 Friday { Autumn Convocation Aug. 30—Sept. 30 ( Second Term of Summer Quarter ends Sept. 24 Wednesday Summer Recess to ' Autumn Examinations in First-Year law courses to Sept. Tuesday 30 remove conditions and for advanced standing Sept. 27 Saturday to • Registration of ali students in Law School Sept. 30 Tuesday Od. 1 Wednesday Autumn Quarter begins Nov. 27 Thursday Thanksgiving Day: a holiday Dee. 23 Tuesday Jj Winter Convocation \ Autumn Quarter ends Dee. 24--Jan.4 Quarterly Recess 1920 Jan, 2 Friday ( Winter Quarter begins \ Registration of new students in Law School Feb. 11 Wednesday First Term of Winter Quarter ends Feb. 12 Thursday Lincoln's Birthday: a holiday Feb. 13 Friday { Second Term of Winter Quarter begins Mar. 16 Tuesday ( Registration of new students in Law School Mar. 19 Friday Spring Convocation Mar. 20-28 Winter Quarter ends Mar. 29 Monday Quarterly Recess J Spring Quarter begins June Tuesday 15 l Registration of new students in Law School June Friday 18 Summer Convocation Spring Quarter ends THE LAW SCHOOL THE FACULTY HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D., President of the University. JAMES PARKER HALL, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law; Dean of the Law School. 1 HARRY AUGUSTUS BIGELOW, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law. ERNST FREUND, PH.D., J.U.D., Professor of Law. EDWARD WILCOX HINTON, LL.B., Professor of Law. t JULIAN WILLIAM MACK, LL.B., Professor of Law. FLOYD RUSSELL MECHEM, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Law. HERMAN ENZLA OLIPHANT, A.B., J.D., Professo** of Law. FREDERIC CAMPBELL WOODWARD, A.M., LL.M., Professor of Law. CHARLES EDWARD KREMER, LL.B., Special Lecturer on Admiralty Law. FRANK FREMONT REED, A.B., Special Lecturer on Copyright and Trade-Mark Law. HENRY WINTHROP BALLANTINE, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Law, University of Illinois (Summer, 1919). JOSEPH HORACE DRAKE, PH.D., LL.B., Professor of Law, University of Michigan (Summer, 1919). FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHENK, Librarian. RUTH BRADLEY, Secretary. X Absent on leave. 3 4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT GENERAL STATEMENT The University of Chicago Law School was estabiished in 1902. It aims to give a thorough legai training to students whose education and maturity have fltted them to pursue serious professional study. The method of instruction employed—-the study and discussion of cases—is designed to give an effective knowledge of legai principles and to develop the power of independent legai reasoning. The course of study orTered, requiring three academic years for com- pletion, is not locai 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. 5, below) students may com­ plete 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 candidates for the degree of Doctor of Law (J.D.), which is conferred upon college graduates only. The University permits one year of law to be counted as the fourth year of college work, and con- fers 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 degrees in six years. (See "Degreea," below, p. 8.) Students over twenty-one years old are admitted as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) upon the conditions stated below, p. 7, under "Admission." It is very desirable that the preliminary education of law students should include work in the social sciences, and provision has been made in the third college year for prelegai study devoted chiefly to these subjects. This course is not required, but students expecting to study law are strongly advised to pursue it. Ite suggested topics are found below, p. 10, under "Prelegai Courses." THE LAW BUILDING The Law School occupies a 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 lecture-rooms, two of which are in theater form. The mez­ zalune floor is occupied by the library stackroom, connected with the reading- room above by electric book lifts and designed to contain steel stacks for 90,000 volumes. Opening into the stackroom are studies for members of the Faculty and the Librarian's room. On the third floor is the reading-room, a great hall with high, timbered ceiling, 160 feet long and 50 feet wide, lighted on ali sides by Gothic Windows. It has shelves for 14,000 books and provides space for tables accommodating 400 readers. Adjoining the reading-room is the office of the Dean. In the basement is a smoking-room and the locker-room, con- taining several hundred steel-mesh lockers for the use of students. THE LIBRARY The Law Library contains about 45,000 volumes. Except a few county- court decisions, it includes ali of the American, English, Irish, Scotch, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and higher Indian reports, with their digests; ali past and present codes and statutory revisions of those jurisdictions; the recent South African reports; ali English, Irish, and Scotch statutes, and (except the THE LAW SCHOOL 5 early laws of some of the older states) nearly ali of the session laws of the American states and Canadian provinces; ali collateral reporte and series of classified cases in use; an extensive collection of treatises, periodicals, trials, and legai miscellany, including a large amount of old English historical material; and a working library in French, German, Spanish, and Mexican law. Studente in the Law School may use the other University libraries, containing over 500,000 volumes. GENERAL INFORMATION THE QUARTER SYSTEM 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 1919-20 on June 16, October 1, January 2, and March 29. Each quarter is eleven to twelve weeks long, and the Summer and Winter Quarters are divided into two terms. A recess of about one week occurs between successive quarters, except that there is no recess between the Spring and Summer Quarters, and that there is one dur- ing 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 better for beginning first-year studente to enter at the opening of the Summer or Autumn Quarter than at any other time. The beginning courses given then are not repeated later, and while such studente may enter in the middle of the Winter, or at the beginning of the Winter or Spring Quarter, it is somewhat less advantageous to do so. Senior College studente should pian their work to enter the Law School in June or October. Studente admitted to advanced standing may usually enter without difficulty in the middle of the Summer or Winter Quarter, or at the beginning of any quarter. No courses begin in the middle of the Autumn or Spring Quarter. FEES, EXPENSES, ETC. 1. MatricvlaHonfee.—A matriculation fee of $5.00 is paid by every student entering the University for the first time. 2. Tuition fee.—The tuition fee in the Law School is $50.00 a quarter (in the Summer and Winter Quarters $25.00 a term) for regular work (three majors). Students who take half-work or less pay half-fees, and receive residence credit prò rata. With the consent of the Dean law students may take extra work in the Law School without extra charge. College graduates who are candidates for J.D.