Harvard Law School prize essays, 1850-1868 (inclusive).

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Harvard Law School prize essays, 1850-1868 (inclusive).

All essays holograph, some giving Latin terms or phrases as authors. Subjects cover all fields of law studied at that time, such as torts, domestic relations, property, admiralty, partnership, Common law, pleading. A notebook, handwritten, listing authors and their subjects in alphabetical order, accompanies the essays.

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...