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By MARY CLIFFORD
Tar Heel Staff Writer
Historians at the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill took pride in remembering
its past as they pointed to renovated buildings
while they walked around the neatly trimmed
lawns. At the corner of Franklin Street and
Hillsborough streets, between the beautifully
renovated Chi-Omega and Tri-Delta houses
was a weatherbeaten, old cottage. Long ivy
vines grew over the broken stucco and stone
walls and 2-foot tall grass and weeds covered
the yard. The cottage had been physically
neglected and historically overlooked. This
cottage built in 1843, was the first site of the
UNC Law School.
The UNC Law School, established in 1845,
was the first professional school at UNC. The
cottage once called "Mr. Sam's Law Office,"
was named after Professor Samuel Field. Field,
and Professor William Horn Battle were the
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law school's first professors.
Phillips, who was the original owner of the
cottage, graduated from UNC in 1841, joined
the faculty in 1845 as a professor of law and
taught until 1859.
Battle graduated from UNC in 1820 and
. was the first law professor at UNC when UNC
president Swain honored him with a profes
sorship in 1845. Field and Battle taught with
out a law library and relied on their own legal
experience as a primary teaching tool.
The history of the law school can be traced
to the commencement of 1824 when gradu
ating senior James W. Bryan delivered an ora
tion titled, "Should a Professorship of Law be
Established at the University?" By 1840 a law
club had been formed and in 1845 the formal
study of law had been brought to UNC.
The Law School was made up of two classes:
Independents and the College class. The Col
lege Class had to have faculty permission to
study law. Tuition was $100 a year for the In
dependent Class and $50 a year for the College
Class. The College Class received a Bachelor
of Law after two and a half years and the In
dependents finished in two years.
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After years of neglect, the first site of the UNC Law School is being
renovated into a private law of fice.
The former school is now being renovated
into a private law office with the assistance of
the Chapel Hill Preservation Society. The rear
of the building is being extended to twice the
original size. The Italian architecture will be
maintained in the renovations, and a comple
tion date for the project is not known.
The law school was moved from the cottage
on Franklin Street to South Building. It then
moved to Smith Hall, Manning Hall and finally
to it's present location at Van Hecke-Wettach
Hall in 1968. The enrollment of the law school
has increased from 10 students in 1847 to
about 700 today.
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