{"id":10772,"date":"2010-07-03T15:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:42:55","slug":"marquettes-original-law-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/07\/marquettes-original-law-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquette’s Original Law School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The students who enter Marquette University Law School this year will take a first-year course load consisting of one-semester courses in Torts, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Property, Criminal Law, and Constitutional Law, and a year-long course in Legal Research and Writing.\u00a0 After the first year, the curriculum is largely elective, although the diploma privilege makes Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Trusts and Estates upper-level required courses.<\/p>\n

The students who enrolled in the inaugural class at the new day division of the Marquette Law School in the fall of 1908 faced a much different situation.\u00a0 All classes were required, and there was no flexibility as to when a particular class could be taken.\u00a0 In addition to the regular classes, law students were also required to attend special lectures by prominent lawyers and judges on topics outside the regular curriculum, and there was a practice court where students learned the nuts and bolts of civil and criminal law practice.<\/p>\n

Marquette Law School has a long tradition of tinkering with its curriculum and that was true even in 1908 and 1909.\u00a0 However, from what can be extracted from the catalogs for 1908-1912, the following appears to have been the original day division curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Fall\u2014Year 1 <\/strong>
\nCommon Law Pleading (1)
\nContracts (2)
\nTorts (2)
\nReal Property (1)
\nCriminal Law & Procedure (1)
\nAgency (2)
\nDomestics Relations (2)<\/td>\n		Spring\u2014Year 1<\/strong>
\nCommon Law Pleading (1)
\nContracts (3)
\nTorts (2)
\nReal Property (1)
\nCriminal Law & Procedure (1)
\nPartnership (2)
\nBailments & Carriers (2)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nFall\u2014Year 2<\/strong>
\nReal Property (2)
\nPrivate Corporations (2)
\nEquity Jurisprudence (2)
\nCode Pleading & Practice (2)
\nPersonal Property & Sales (2)
\nNegotiable Paper (2)<\/td>\n		\nSpring\u2014Year 2<\/strong>
\nReal Property (2)
\nPrivate Corporations (2)
\nEquity Jurisprudence (2)
\nCode Pleading & Practice (1)
\nEvidence (2)
\nMunicipal Corporations (2)
\nCourts & Jurisdiction (1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nFall\u2014Year 3<\/strong>
\nEquity Jurisprudence & Trusts (2)
\nConstitutional Law (1)
\nReal Property (2)
\nWills (2)
\nEvidence (2)
\nMunicipal Corporations\/Utilities (2)
\nInsurance (1)
\nSurety and Guaranty (1)<\/td>\n		\nSpring\u2014Year 3<\/strong>
\nEquity Jurisprudence & Trusts (2)
\nConstitutional Law (1)
\nFederal Courts, Admiralty, Bankruptcy, Patents, Trademark (2)
\nProbate Law & Practice (2)
\nEquity Pleading (2)
\nExtraordinary Legal Remedies (1)
\nDamages (1)
\nTaxation & Public Revenues (1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information on the experiences of the first law students, see the earlier post on Joseph Tierney L\u201911<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The students who enter Marquette University Law School this year will take a first-year course load consisting of one-semester courses in Torts, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Property, Criminal Law, and Constitutional Law, and a year-long course in Legal Research and Writing.\u00a0 After the first year, the curriculum is largely elective, although the diploma privilege makes Evidence, 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