Legal education

Legal education

1690s –

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  • Title Legal education
  • Coverage 1690s –
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  • Keywords South Carolina has had a practicing bar since the 1690s, attorneys-at-law prepared and argued their cases in the law courts, solicitors prepared and argued their cases in the equity courts, Inns of Court in London, chief reading was Blackstone’s Commentaries, Alexander Cheves Haskell, USC law school admitted its first woman in 1898, accredited by the American Association of Law Schools in 1924,
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date March 28, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 9, 2022
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