America’s ‘First Law School’

A nice find over at Law.com: It’s America’s first law school, at least according to its sign in rural Litchfield, Connecticut.

The story is perfectly timely, as the class of 2019 strolls on campuses across the country: little do many know that they have this 232-year-old law school to thank. Called The Litchfield Law School, the school educated more than 1,100 men, “making it by far the most successful proprietary law school of its time,” reports Karen Sloan .

The article sketches a history:

Litchfield Law School founder Tapping Reeve didn’t set out to be a pioneer of legal education: He trained to be ...