Duke University School of Law - Prolocutor Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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THE DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL Venue and Jurisdiction UKE UNIVERSITY was built around Trinity College, which grew out of Union Institute, and law has been an important part of its curriculum for almost one hundred years. In 1850 law was made available to seniors as part of their cultural education. Within twenty years it had been given departmental status. The present School of Law was founded in IQO4 upon an en- dowment established by Iames B. and Benjamin N. Duke with the distinguished and colorful Samuel Fox Mordecai as its first Dean. Trinity College blossomed into Duke University in 1924, and the Law School shared in the expansion. Iustin Miller, author of Miller on Criminal Law, became Dean in 1930, and the Law School grew even ITIOFC--IO include graduate work, the Legal Aid Clinic, the Practice Court, the Duke Bar Association, and the famous quarterly, Law and Contemporary Problems. As the activities of the Law School expanded, it was natural and necessary that they be put in PAGE I 2 Venue refers to :he place where the case is tried, and jur1'sd1'ezion is the power of the court to handle a particular case. This Law School has changed the venue and expanded its jurisdiction zuizlz the passage of time .... larger and larger containers. In its earliest days the Law School held its classes in the Washing- ton Duke Building and in the Library on what is now East Campus. In 1927 it went into larger quarters in the Carr Building, and three years later it moved to its present location on West Campus. The Law Building, like all other structures on Duke's West Campus, is in Tudor Gothic style of colorful Cambrian stone from the University quarries. It has space for the Law Library, Legal Aid Clinic, offices, classrooms, seminar rooms, and a courtroom equipped for trial court and appellate court sessions. Legal pioneering has been an everyday occur- rence in the Duke Law School since its inception. education It set the standard in Southern legal by being the Hrst to require two years of college as a prerequisite to entrance fthree required todayj. It was one of the Schools to use the case method as a basis of in- struction. Duke's Legal Aid Clinic is one of the very few in the country run in connection with years are first Law

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First VUHI, lclft to right: Iohn Lee, Edward Marx, John McCoy, Marvin Pcrlis, Gordon Nazor, Sammi row: George Ltirncd, Guillermo Mulet, M. li. Morton, Everett Mast, AI Oppenheim, Bob Page, Bch Olsen. Thin! row: Iohn Pzttzilnno, Harold Richman, Arnold McKinnon, George Martin, Ed Loescr, Arthur Mcllonuld, Claude Long. Fozrrzh ifllllff Bill Millar, George Morrow, Charles Rcdrnzin, Dave Rabin, Jim Phipps, lim Perry. FIRST YEAR CLASS Firxf row, left rn right: G. E. Orr, Bob O'Toolc, G. F. Gobey, Iin'1WiQht, Bill Stevenson,MillySmith, Ed Williamson, I-I.C.Tcrry. .S'emn1Irow: Wilton Steed, Dave Zwnnciz, Bill Rickman, lim Scott, Iohn Surratt, Iohn Thorne, Bob Styers, Don Stearns. Thin! row: Ward Ruclcrsdorf,C. R. Allen, H. M. Russell,G. B.Thomusson,T.G.'1'homaides,Iohn Williamson, L. L,Stout, A, R.Switz. Fourzh row: Charlie Spence, C. E. Villanueva, Fred Rosenberg, Don Seltzer, Vernon Shell, Tom Shelton, lim Thomasson, I-Ienry Ostcn, Roy Simmons. l PAGE I I

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Alvozfe: The Law .Library offers unexcelletl facilities for research and classroom work. Below: The Legal Aid Clinic Class views a slide projection of an actual brief, in preparing to handle a practical legal problem. a Law School. Law and Contemporary Prob- lems is absolutely unique in the field of legal publications. This School was over fifteen years ahead of the American Bar Association in setting up its Bar Association for law students. The present administration, through appro- priate faculty committees, has proved that the pioneer spirit of the Law School is not merely a thing of the past. As of this year, the student body is benefiting from a revamping of the cur- riculum and teaching methods. Work in the public law field has been considerably expanded. Legal Research and Writing fa course required of all studentsj has been given renewed emphasis, and seminar work with the accent on planning and drafting of legal instruments has been added in the third year. On the eve of its transition from Trinity to Duke, the School of Law had four thousand books in its library. Five years later it had eleven thousand. Today, the Law Library contains over eighty-two thousand volumes and is the largest law school collection in the South. The Library receives every current legal periodical of general interest printed in the English language. Duke's internationally famous Legal Aid Clinic is a boon to those law students desiring a legal internship before stepping into private practice and to the poor in need of legal guid- ance. It is in effect an active law office offering the student funder supervisionj experience in interviewing actual clients, investigation of facts, preparing cases for adjustment or for trial in court, writing legal documents, briefing, and other tasks familiar to the practicing attorney. Approximately four hundred persons a year apply for the services of the Clinic. Only those applicants who are unable to pay counsel fees and cases where there is no opportunity for a contingent fee are accepted. Dr. Iohn S. Brad- Way has directed the Clinic since its founding. Absolutely unique in the field of legal publi- cations is the Law School's quarterly, Law am! Contemporary Problemr, which is edited by Pro- fessors Brainerd Currie, Robert Kramer, and Iohn Pemberton. It presents in each issue a sympo- sium on a problem of current importance, in PAGE 1 3