UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS Oak Street UNCLASSIFIED PKJSUO£NT*8 omen MAXWELL HALL TO BE OCCUPIED BY THE SCHOOL OF LAW ON THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW LIBRARY BUILDING Concerning Indiana University Law School THE FIRST ESTABLISHED OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLS WEST OF THE ALLEGHANIES In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and California schools of law now flourish as departments of the State Universities. Of these State University law schools the first opened was the Law School of the University of Indiana, at Bloomington. Its beginning was in 1838, when the Board of Trustees of Indiana University, "at the first meeting of the Board after the College had become a University," decided to establish a course of law in the University. Its actual opening was in 1 842. The catalogue of that year announced the inauguration of a department of law at Bloomington, and declared it to be the purpose of the Board there to " build up a Law School that shall be inferior to none West of the mountains — one in which the student shall be so trained that he shall never in the lawyer forget the scholar and the gentleman." The opening of this State University law school was at that day a very courageous departure from our traditions in legal education. In Europe, it is true, the path to the bar led always through a University law school; but in England and America the lawyer had for many generations sought his professional education in the law office of an older practitioner. Our professional prejudices ran strongly against law school instruc- tion. These prejudices have now passed, as the 100 law schools in America and our 15,000 law students bear witness; but in 1842 legal education in America was hardly at the threshold of the law school age. It was but twenty-five years after the hesitating opening of the first University law school in America, the Har- vard Law School; it was but sixteen years after the first State University law school had been established at the University of Virginia. And after the Indiana University Law School had been opened, seventeen years passed before the Michigan University Law School was established, at Ann Arbor, and twenty-six years before the next in time of the State University law schools in the West opened its doors in the little University town of Iowa City. Teaching of Procedure The work in Civil Procedure in the Indiana University Law School is two-fold: 0) A course of class room instruction in the underlying principles of our existing system of civil procedure, as shown in the statutes and the cases; (2) A course of moot court and practice court work in the appli- cation of the principles of pleading and the rules of practice. The general outline of the first part of the work is as follows: (a) The forms of action at common law. This is designed to afford a brief historical introduction to the whole subject of our civil procedure, and incidentally to give the freshman, at the outset of his work, a hold upon the distinctions between the forms of action which he meets in his substantive case books. (b) The cardinal principles of common law procedure, with special reference to those which have sur- vived under the codes. (c) The elements of equity pleading, with special reference to those which reappear in the equity rules of the Federal Courts. (d) The rise and elements of code pleading, in America and England, with special reference to its lead- ing express enactments. (e) The principles and rules of code pleading, with special reference to those doctrines of the code which have been developed by the courts from the express enactments common to all the code States. For the second part of the work the following courses have been established and are carried on under the immediate supervision of one of the law professors. (a) Moot Court I, for First Year Students. (b) Moot Court II, for Second Year Students. (c) Practice Court III, for Third Year Students. In the Moot Courts, questions of law raised by pleadings on statements of facts are argued before the Court and decided by the judges in written opinions. The question for discussion and the statement of facts are given by the professor in charge of the Court, who also selects, from the students enrolled in the Court, the counsel on both sides and the judges, and sits with the judges to hear the argument. The pleadings are care- fully framed by the students under the supervision of the instructor. The Practice Court presupposes an acquaintance with the fundamental principles of pleading. It is organ- ized as a complete court, with a Clerk, a Sheriff, a Clerk's Office, and is fully equipped with such books, rec- ords, and blanks, as are required in the Courts of Indiana. The docket, the order book, and the necessary blanks have been specially prepared for this court. Further to systemize the work, Room 41, Wylie Hall, has been fitted up as a modern court room, with all the accessories. One of the professors sits as judge. It is the purpose in this Practice Court to give students who are fitted for it a practical training in the proper conduct of a civil action, from its commencement to its termination in the court of last resort. Each step is taken under the immediate supervision of one of the professors in the school. Every student enrolling for the work is required to prepare each term at least two complete records of an action, in strict accord with the rules of Indiana practice. PRACTICE COURT SESSION The Teaching Force The law faculty of the school numbers nine law yers. Five of these now give their whole time to the work of the school, four give a portion of their time, taken from active practice, to special law courses. a summer class in session In addition to the in- struction of the regular law faculty, a course of lectures on special topics is given, one lecture a week, by dif- ferent judges of the highest courts in the State and prominent members of the active bar. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS Alone among the law schools of Indiana, the Indiana University School of Law is a member of the Asso- ciation of American Law Schools. ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS Applicants for admission to the School of Law must be at least eighteen years of age and be graduates of a four-year high school course, or show equivalent preparation. Applicants twenty years of age or over who are not able to satisfy this requirement may be admitted as special students. THE THREE-YEAR TERM The course of study covers a period of three years and leads to the degree of LL.B. There are some thirty-six weeks in each school year. The Law Library The library of the Law School numbers about 6,000 bound volumes. The Reports in the Library include the following: (A) From the State Courts : (1) The published decisions of the Court of last resort, com- plete from the beginning, in each of the following States and Territories: Alabama Kansas North Dakota Arizona Kentucky Ohio California Massachusetts Oklahoma Colorado Michigan Pennsylvania Connecticut Minnesota South Dakota Dakota Missouri Tennessee Illinois Nebraska Virginia Indian Ter. New Jersey Washington Indiana New Mexico Wisconsin Iowa New York Wyoming (2) The published decisions of the courts of last resort in all the other States from the beginning of the National Reporter Service. (3) The current decisions of the courts of last resort in all the States, as issued, either in the official volumes, or in advance sheets and bound volumes of the Reporter Service. (4) The reported decisions of most of the courts of intermediate appeal, in several States, are complete or almost complete. (5) Complete sets of the ‘American Decisions,’ the ‘American Reports,’ the ‘American State Reports,’ the ‘Lawyers Reports, Annotated,’ the ‘American and English Annotated Cases,' with their Digests and Tables of Cases. (B) From the Federal Courts : The Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, from its organization. The Decisions of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, from its organization. The Decisions of the United States Circuit and District Courts, from the commencement of the Federal Reporter. (C) From the English Courts: ( I ) Complete sets of the Law Reports, from 1 865 down, have been added to the Law Library within the year, including the reports of the Queen’s (or King’s) Bench, Equity Cases, English and Irish Appeals, Privy Council Appeals, Common Pleas, Chancery Appeals, Scotch Appeals, Appeal Cases, Exchequer, Chancery Decisions. (2) The English reports prior to 1865 are being rapidly added. The Library now has, completed from the beginning, the de- cisions of the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Chancery, the Rolls Court, and the Vice-Chancellor's Court. The Library also has a set of the English Common Law Reports, a set of the Revised Reports, and a considerable number of the early reporters. (3) All the current reports of the King's Bench, the Exchequer Division, the Chancery Division, the Probate Division, and the Appeal Cases are received as issued. (D) Statutes in the Library : The Revised Statutes of the United States ; the Session Laws of Indiana (almost complete), the Revised Statutes of Indiana, the Revised Statutes of several of the other States. (£) Text Books, Digests, etc. The Library includes also : (1) Six hundred and twenty-five volumes of text books on the principal topics of the law. This number does not include a con- siderable collection of legal text books, on topics of importance to law students, which are found in the historical and political science Departments of the general Library of the University. (2) The ‘Century Digest’ of all American cases from 1658 to 1896; the annual volumes of the ‘American Digest’ to date; the ‘Federal Reporter Digest’; all the Indiana Digests; the Digests of a considerable number of other States. (3) The ‘A merican and English Encyclopedia of Law’; the ‘Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice’; the ‘Encyclopedia of Forms’; the ‘Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure’ — each complete to date; and various law dictionaries. (4) A fair collection of legal periodicals, including the ‘Albany Law Journal,’ the ‘American Bar Association Reports,' the ‘American Law Review,’ the ‘Central Law Journal,’ the ‘Columbia Law Review,’ ‘The Green Bag,’ the ‘Harvard Law Review,’ complete from the beginning. THE LAW LIBRARY INDIANA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL Law Students Enrolled in the Indiana University School of Law In the year 1903-04 150 In the year 1904-05 187 In the year 1905-06 243 States and Countries represented among the Law Students in the Indiana University Law School in the year 1905-06: Illinois Kentucky Michigan Nebraska Philippines Utah Indiana Maine Minnesota Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana Counties represented among the Indiana Law Students enrolled in the Indiana University School of Law in the year 1905-06: Adams Crawford Franklin Huntington Allen Daviess Fulton Jackson Bartholomew Dearborn Gibson J asper Benton Decatur Grant Jefferson Blackford Dekalb Green Jennings Boone Delaware Hamilton Johnson Carroll Dubois Harrison Knox Cass Elkhart Hendricks Kosciusko Clark Fayette Henry Lagrange Clinton Floyd Howard Lake Lawrence Ohio Randolph V anderburgh Madison Orange Rush Vermillion Marion Owen Shelby Vigo Marshall Parke Spencer Warrick Miami Perry Starke Washington Monroe Pike Steuben Wayne Montgomery Porter Sullivan Wells Morgan Posey Tippecanoe White Newton Pulaski Tipton Whitley Noble Putnam Union For further information concerning the School of Law, address The Dean of the School of Law, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY The Indiana University is situated at Bloomington, the county seat of Monroe county. The town has a population of about 9,000 ; it is on the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway (Monon Route), about sixty miles southwest of Indianapolis, and one hundred miles northwest of Louisville; and on the Indianapolis Southern, a branch of the Illinois Central, which is now completed from Indianapolis. The University takes its origin from the State Seminary, which was established by act of the Legislature, approved January 20, 1820. In 1828 the title of the Seminary was changed by the Legislature to that of the Indiana College, and in 1838 the University was given its present name and style. By virtue of the State constitutions of 1816 and 1831, and the acts of the General Assembly thereunder, the Indiana University is the State University of Indiana, and is the head of the public school system of the State. Besides the School of Law and the School of Medicine, the University comprises the following Departments of Liberal Arts; Department of Greek Department of Latin Department of Romance Languages Department of German Department of English Department of Comparative Philology Department of History and Political Science Department of Economics and Social Science Department of Philosophy Department of Education Department of Fine Arts Department of Mathematics Department of Mechanics and Astronomy Department of Physics Department of Chemistry Department of Geology Department of Botany Department of Zoology Department of Anatomy Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Department of Pathology Courses are also given in Music and Physical Training. For copies of the University Catalogue, and other publi- cations of the University, address THE REGISTRAR, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. 3 0112 105743642 Growth of Indiana University in Recent Years 1891 - 1892 497 1892 - 1893 572 1893 - 1894 633 1894 - 1895 771 1895 - 18 % 879 1896 - 1897 944 1897 - 1898 1,049 1898 - 1899 1,050 1899 - 1900 1,016 1900 - 1901 1,137 1901 - 1902 1,285 1902 - 1903 1,469 1903 - 1904 1,418 1904 - 1905 1,538 1905 - 1906 1,684