University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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College of Law HE College of Law was organized in 1908 and has steadily increased in growth and influence until it has become one of the strong schools of the country. It is doing high-grade work, which is recognized and given credit in our leading law schools. Forty-nine of these schools in the United States constitute the Association of American Law Schools, which association has for its purpose the maintenance of high grade courses of instruction and thorough training of students for the profession of law. This College of Law is a member of that asso- ciation and keeps pace with all advancements recommended by it. For admission to this college the student must have completed a four-year high school course and one year of college work other than law. An additional year of college work will be required in the near future. The aim and purpose of this law school is to maintain a position that will be most helpful to the legal profession in this state and to render all possible service in the proper administration of our laws. Wholesome advice or suggestions from the lawyers of the state in furtherance of this end are always welcomed. The excellent law library which has been accumulated and is indispensable in the law school work is also opened for the lawyers of the state who wish to use it. It contains eleven thousand volumes of well se- lected law books, and important additions are constantly being made. The law faculty is composed of five instructors, each of whom devotes his whole time to the teaching of law, and four others who deliver courses of lectures on special phases of law and procedure. From time to time lectures are delivered by non-resident members of the bar. The course of instruction in law covers a period of three years and is designed to thoroughly train the student for the practice of law. In addition to a high standard course in substantive law, courses in procedural law are also emphasized in the office and court practice work, where the student is taught by actual contact the work that he will be required to do in the practice of law. This training is given in a thoroughly organized practice court, officered by the students and presided over by an instructor who has had many years in active practice. Further training is given the students in the Henry Clay Law Society where they are required to do careful research work, debate legal problems, and are instructed in parliamentary law and in the passage of laws in legislative assemblies. The law degree of LL.B. is granted upon the completion of the prescribed work, and for an additional year’s work the degree of LL.M. is granted. Provisions are made by the University whereby any student may complete the work in Arts and Science and in Law in six years and be granted both the degree of A. B. and LL.B. Bi-monthly the Kentucky Law Journal is issued and mailed to the members of the bar. In this way a close relationship is maintained between the members of the bar and the school. This publication has been made the official organ of the Kentucky State Bar Association. 18