Holdings College of Law Dean's Office National Conference of Comm... Finding Aid Holdings College of Law Dean's Office National Conference of Comm... Finding Aid Title: National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Correspondence, 1941-51, 1963-66
ID: 14/1/8
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Law
Extent: 4.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Commercial Code, Consumer Credit, Criminal Statistics, Evidence, Legislation, Liens, Motor Vehicle Legislation, Securities, Uniform State Legislation
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) correspondence of Deans Albert Harno and Russell Sullivan, including committee agenda and minutes, reports, model acts, digests and surveys of legislation, drafts and related materials concerning NCCUSL meetings, research in law schools, commercial code (1949-57), consumer credit (1963-64), liens (1948), securities, rules of evidence, criminal statistics (1941-49), past conviction procedures (1954-57), and motor vehicle legislation.
On December 8, 1896, the Board of Trustees voted to establish and provide funds for a School of Law.1 In September 1897 the school began operation in University Hall with three professors and three lecturers, and offered the Bachelor of Law degree.2 Following a 1898 ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court establishing new requirements for the Illinois Bar, the school revised its program and entrance requirements, and, in 1899, became known as the College of Law.3 In 1902 the college moved from University Hall into the Law Building (Harker Hall).4 In 1909, the state legislature granted funds for upgrading the program and the law library.5 In 1915, entrance requirements were raised from one year of university work to two,6 and in 1917 a four year law program was offered.7 On October 25, 1924, the Board of Trustees voted to move the college, and in September of 1925 the college moved to the old Library Building, to be renamed the Law Building (Altgeld Hall).8 In 1926 the Law Alumni Association, an organization of former faculty and students, was founded.9 In 1949, the first issue of Law Forum, a student-published quarterly periodical appeared.10 In 1953, money was appropriated by the state legislature for the construction of a Law Building,11 and in 1955, the College of Law moved to its present site.12 The College of Law is the thirteenth largest in the nation and has a full-time faculty of over thirty professors.13 The college offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.), Master of Comparative Law (M.C.L.), Master of Laws (LL.M.), and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).14 Student activities include the Student Research Bureau, the Black Law Students Association, Women Law Students and the Student Bar Association (formerly Junior Bar Association), the student government body of the college.15
This unit covers:
--Environmental and Ecological Studies, Office of (1974)
--Graduate and International Legal Studies, Office of (1974)
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 19th Report, Dec. 8, 1896, p. 44.
2. College of Law, Announcements, 1903.
3. Allen Nevins, Illinois, (New York, 1917), pp. 172-73.
4. College of Law, Announcements, 1903.
5. Allen Nevins, Illinois, (New York, 1917), p. 235.
6. University of Illinois, Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois, p. 219.
7. Ibid., p. 219.
8. Board of Trustees Transactions, 33rd Report, October 25, 1924, p. 83.
9. College of Law, Bulletin, 1976-78, p. 34.
10. A.J. Harno, Statement to Law Alumni, 1949.
11. Board of Trustees Transactions, 47th Report, July 25, 1953, p. 747.
12. College of Law, Announcements, 1956-57.
13. College of Law, Announcements, 1976-78, pp. 14-15.
14. Ibid., p. 29.
15. Ibid., p. 27.
Commercial Code
Consumer Credit
Criminal Statistics
Evidence
Legislation
Liens
Motor Vehicle Legislation
Securities
Uniform State Legislation
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1401008.pdf
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