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History. The law school was founded in 1859. By 1870, it was the largest law school in the country. In 1870, Gabriel Franklin Hargo graduated from Michigan Law as the second African American to graduate from law school in the United States. In 1871 Sarah Killgore, a Michigan Law graduate, became the first woman to both graduate from law school ...
Founded in 1971 as The Delaware Law School, the institution became affiliated with then Widener College, later becoming Widener University in 1975 and graduated its first class of 267 in August of that year. The school's name was officially changed to Widener University School of Law in 1989 when the Harrisburg campus was added. On July 1, 2015 ...
The Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg was founded in 1989, as an expansion of Widener University's existing law school in Wilmington, Delaware. Anthony J. Santoro, who served as Dean of law from 1983 to 1992, felt that there was a need for legal education in Harrisburg, the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . [ 7 ]
Widener University is a private, metropolitan university with a Chester, Pennsylvania, campus that includes six colleges and schools, and two distinct law schools in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. The university offers associate’s, bachelor’s, master's, and doctoral degrees in a variety of fields across liberal arts ...
John C. Dernbach is a nationally and internationally recognized authority on sustainable development, climate change, and environmental law. He is Commonwealth Professor of Environmental Law and Sustainability at Widener University Commonwealth Law School and Director of its Environmental Law and Sustainability Center. [ 1]
Carl E. Schneider. Carl E. Schneider was an American lawyer and bioethicist. He served as Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and as Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. [1] He was educated at Harvard College and received his JD from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review. [2]
Karima Bennoune is an Algerian-American who is the Louis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She was the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law when she taught at the UC Davis School of Law. She was also United Nations Special Rapporteur in ...
The City Colleges of Detroit were renamed Wayne University in 1933. In 1956, the university joined Michigan State University and the University of Michigan as one of the state's three major public research institutions and was renamed Wayne State University. The Law School received full American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation in 1939. The ...