{"id":8728,"date":"2010-01-24T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:49:24","slug":"a-snapshot-of-the-marquette-law-school-in-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/01\/a-snapshot-of-the-marquette-law-school-in-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snapshot of the Marquette Law School in 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"marqun\"<\/a>Barron\u2019s Educational Series, a leading publisher of college guides, published its first \u201cGuide to Law Schools\u201d in 1967.\u00a0 Its profile of Marquette, one of the then 133 ABA accredited law schools, provides a picture of a law school that differs from its modern counterpart in a number of ways.\u00a0 The information below was provided to Barron\u2019s by Dean Robert H. Boden.<\/p>\n

Size and Structure<\/span>:\u00a0 The school offered only a 3-year Day Division program, and the total enrollment at the school was only\u00a0 260 students.<\/p>\n

Make-up of the Student Body<\/span>: Women made up only 3% of the student body\u2014eight students. (While this was below the national average, significantly less than 10% of all law students in the mid-1960\u2019s were female.)\u00a0 Three quarters of the student body was from Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Faculty:<\/span> The faculty consisted of 10 full-time and seven part-time instructors.\u00a0 Dean Boden was in his second year as dean.\u00a0 Members of the faculty included current emeritus professors Jim Ghiardi and Ray Klitzke, and Wally McBain, who passed away last year.<\/p>\n

Library<\/span>: The current law library had not yet been constructed, and the library was housed on the third floor of Sensenbrenner Hall.\u00a0 Holdings totaled 54,000 volumes.<\/p>\n

Tuition<\/span>:\u00a0 Tuition was $1150 per year, or $40 per credit hour.<\/p>\n

Admissions Standards<\/span>:\u00a0 Applicants had only to have completed three years of college.\u00a0 Would-be students were required to take the LSAT, but the school reported that primary emphasis was placed on college grades.\u00a0 Fifty percent of applicants were accepted, and applicants who ranked in the top 40% of their college classes were likely to secure admission.\u00a0 While applicants were encouraged to apply for admission for the fall semester, admission in the middle of the year was possible.<\/p>\n

Placement<\/span>:\u00a0 There was no placement director, but a member of the full-time faculty supervised a \u201cPlacement Bureau,\u201d which assisted students in obtaining post-law school employment.\u00a0 The law school and the student bar association also published an annual \u201cplacement digest,\u201d which contained photographs and profiles of all graduating students.\u00a0 The document was distributed to law firms in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

Degree Awarded<\/span>:\u00a0 The law school awarded the degree of LL.B. (bachelor of laws) to its graduates.\u00a0 However, Barron\u2019s reported that the school was considering switching the title of its degree to J.D.\u00a0 (There was a national movement in the 1960\u2019s from the LL.B. to the J.D.)\u00a0 The Marquette degree qualified its holders for automatic admission to the Wisconsin Bar under the diploma privilege, as it had since 1933.\u00a0 At this time, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules required only a law degree from Marquette or the University of Wisconsin and did not stipulate any specific courses as a prerequisite for admission.<\/p>\n

Required Courses<\/span>:\u00a0 Ninety credits were required for graduation.\u00a0 In addition to the traditional first year courses, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Legal Bibliography, Property, and Torts, students were required to take Advanced Contracts, Agency and Partnership, Appellate Practice, Business Organizations, Ethics, Evidence, Federal Income Taxation, Introduction to Law, Jurisprudence, Sales, Trial Practice, Trusts and Estates,\u00a0and one of Administrative Law, Labor Law, or Trade Regulations.\u00a0 Moot Court participation was also mandatory.\u00a0 Grades were numerical.<\/p>\n

Financial Aid<\/span>.\u00a0 There were 32 full-time scholarships available each year, but this appears to have been the extent of financial aid.\u00a0 Only 12-15% of the student body received financial assistance.<\/p>\n

Legal Fraternites<\/span>:\u00a0 Chapters of Delta Theta Phi, Phi Alpha Delta, and Phi Delta Phi were active at the law school and appear to have played an important role in student life.<\/p>\n

The Barron’s guide classified law schools as either \u201cnational,\u201d \u201cregional,\u201d or “state.\u201d\u00a0 These classifications were based on the origins of a school\u2019s student body and the focus of its curriculum.\u00a0 Marquette was classified as a \u201cregional\u201d law school.\u00a0 By way of contrast, the University of Wisconsin was a \u201cnational\u201d law school, while DePaul, Loyola of Chicago, and Chicago-Kent were \u201cstate\u201d law schools.<\/p>\n

The guide also sought to classify schools as \u201cmost selective,\u201d \u201chighly selective,\u201d \u201cselective,\u201d and \u201cvarying standards.\u201d\u00a0 Marquette fell into the latter category, but it appears that the guide relied on ambiguous, non-statistical information supplied by the school\u2019s themselves to make these determinations.\u00a0 Marquette\u2019s ranking may also have been affected by the fact that it did not require its students to have earned undergraduate degrees, although by 1967 virtually all did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barron\u2019s Educational Series, a leading publisher of college guides, published its first \u201cGuide to Law Schools\u201d in 1967.\u00a0 Its profile of Marquette, one of the then 133 ABA accredited law schools, provides a picture of a law school that differs from its modern counterpart in a number of ways.\u00a0 The information below was provided to 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