Independent Law Schools in the United States - New York Law School, Brooklyn Law School, William Mitchell College of Law (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: New York Law School, Brooklyn Law School, William Mitchell College of Law, Appalachian School of Law, Charleston School of Law, Litchfield Law School, Vermont Law School, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, New England School of Law, John Marshall Law School, Ave Maria School of Law, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Albany Law School, Phoenix School of Law, Naval Justice School. Excerpt: New York Law School is a private law school in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. The school is located within four blocks of all major courts in Manhattan. In 2011, New York Law School was ranked #135 in U.S. News & World Report. Dean Richard Matasar is a board member of the Access student loan corporation. During the winter of 1890, a dispute arose at Columbia Law School over an attempt to introduce the Case Method of study. The Case Method had been pioneered at Harvard Law School by Christopher Columbus Langdell. The dean and founder of Columbia Law School, Theodore Dwight, opposed this method, preferring the traditional method of having students read treatises rather than court decisions. Because of this disagreement, Dwight and a number of other faculty and students of Columbia Law School left and founded their own law school in Lower Manhattan the following year. On June 11, 1891, New York Law School was chartered by the State of New York, and the school began operation shortly thereafter. By this time, Theodore Dwight was in poor health, and was not able to be actively involved with the Law School, so the position of dean went to one of the other professors from Columbia Law School, George Chase. New York Law School held its first classes on October 1, 1891, in the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, ..