The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
Hoods J~drSapGriELG
The State University Law School.

Judge J. D. Lawson has been elect
ed dean OF the law department of tbu
I'm iversity of Missouri to fill th,
vacancy caused by The death of Judge
Alexander Martin.
Judge Lawson Is a scholarly man o
wide experience. He graduated from
the Toronto Law school IN 1875. In
1886 he was elected judge of the civil
court of New Jersey. For some years
he practiced law in ST.. Louis and was
also editor of the St. Louis Law
Journal. In 1891 he was made pro-
lessor of law in the University of Mis-
souri,, from which position he Is now
promoted. Besides being a man of
wide experience, Judge LAWSON is a
man of great learning. For years he
has been a contributor to the most
prominent law journals in the United
States, aud besides has written the
following works, many OF which have
ran through several editions Contracts
of Common Carriers, U'ages and Gus
toms, Concordance of Words and
Phrases, Expert and Opinion Evidence,
Leading Cases SImplifed, Presump-
tive Evidence, Insanity as a Defense,
Defenses to Crime, Digest Nevada Re.
ports, American Law of Contracts,
American Law of Bailments, Cases on
Personal Property, and his greatest
work, Rights, Remedies and Practice
in seven volumes. His practical ex-
perlence and profound knowledge of law
admirably fit him for his new position.
E. w. Hinton, the new professor of
pleading, practice and evidence, is a
graduate Of the Missouri University
Law School and the Columbia Law
School, New York. He Is a native
Missourlan and was endorsed or the
position by judges CAN'T, Brace, Bur
CESS, Marshall, Valiant, and Robinson,
OF the supreme court, by two-thirdS OF
the circuit court judges of Missouri
and by practically all the members of
the bar of Kansas City, St. Joseph, St.
LOUIS, and north--and central Missouri.
V. II. Roberts, the new professor of
equity and real property, is a strong
man. He is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan and Harvard Law
School. He also studied law a. Berlin
and took the degree of Doctor of laws
at the University of Heidelberg. He is
commended by the most eminent law
yers in Iowa and Michigan, by Judge
Emlin McClain, of the supreme court
Of Iowa, formerly dean Of the law de-
partment Of Iowa University, by law
school teachers at Michigan, Harvard,
Berlin and Heidelberg. For several
years be has been professor of lawi IN
Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa.
He is regarded as one of the strongest
teachers of law in the UDited States and
is believed to be a valuable acquisition
to the Missouri Law School.
This is considered the best law tacul-
ty University of Missouri has ever had.
A general Improvement all along the
line is apparent IN the recent nounc
ment of the law school. One especial
ly noticeable feature is the establish
ment of law courts corresponding to
the various state courts, inferior and
superior. These courts will be under
the direction of The professor of plead
ing and practice and will be in session
every day of the school year. Here a
student will be required to file his own
papers, present bis own motions, and
make his argument. In fact do
everything that is done in a court of
law.
Despite the Improvements that are
everywhere apparent, there is to be no
increase in the tuition charge. THIS
remains where it was last year, at $40
per year.
We are pleased to note these i'm.
provements in our State law school.
1t places irst-class legal instruction
within the reach of every boy who
wants to be a lawyer. The total ex.
pense need not exceed $3.50 per year
aRd $500 is a liberal allowance. The
school has the commentator of SUI
preme aud appellate judges.
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