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Old Law Building - in about 1865
No full textThe first Law Building; picture ca.1865. Source: Bentley Historical Library.
The Law Department was founded in 1859 and graduated its first class in 1860, but not until 1863 did it have its own building, The Law Building (architects Jordan & Anderson) was southeast of the intersection of South State and North University.https://repository.law.umich.edu/building_pictures/1001/thumbnail.jp
Old Law Building - 1863
No full textThe first Law Building; picture from 1863. Source: Bentley Historical Library.
The Law Department was founded in 1859 and graduated its first class in 1860, but not until 1863 did it have its own building, The Law Building (architects Jordan & Anderson) was southeast of the intersection of South State and North University.https://repository.law.umich.edu/building_pictures/1000/thumbnail.jp
Address by Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, and Poem by D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., on the Dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the Michigan University
Full text linkA stirring address by Professor Cooley upon the occasion of the dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the first Law School Building. He begins: Students in the Department of Law: While Michigan was yet a wilderness, only feeling along its borders the advancing tread of civilization, and only hearing here and there the sound of the woodman\u27s axe, the wisdom of American statesmen made provision for the establishment in the territory of a great University...
Old Law Buidling - 1863
No full textOld Law Building - 1863. Source: Bentley Historical Library.
The size of the original building was 70 by 90 feet. In 1863 it was occupied by the Law School, the University Chapel (until 1873) and the General Library (until 1883).https://repository.law.umich.edu/building_pictures/1010/thumbnail.jp
Closing Remarks of Prof J.V. Campbell to the Graduating Class of the Law Department, March 21st, 1863.
Full text link[The following remarks of Professor Campbell, at the close of his series of Law Lectures for the present year, having been unanimously requested by the class for publication, were kindly furnished by him. Being extempore, and prompted solely by the feelings and emotions of the hour, it is the wish of those who heard those words of counsel and farewell to publish them, verbatim, as delivered.] ....
....But among our thoughts the question will arise, To what end have we been spending this long period in searching out and studying the principles of the law? ... Why then have you given your diligent attention so long as so carefully?
It is because you are to go forth to serve and defend the public, as ministers of the law...
Brief of T.M. Cooley, Cook and Waldron v. Hillsdale, 1859
Full text linkMr. Cooley writes this Brief as counsel for the Complainants. Cook & Waldron own a grist mill and the Village of Hillsdale feels that the owners voluntarily gave leave for a public way to be conducted through the property. Cook & Waldron disagree
On the Study of Law: An Address at the Opening of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, October 3, 1859
Full text linkProfessor Campbell\u27s address on the occasion of the inauguration of the Department of Law at the University of Michigan, laying out the hopes for and expectations of the newly-created unit. He sweeps wide through the history of the State and the nobility of the profession: Let everyone come to the study of the Law with a proper sense of its dignity and importance