Michigan University Law School,

every civilized country of the world in awak ening to a realization of the fact of the ne cessity and advantages of schools of law. Even Japan has a law school in which a thousand students are to-day engaged in studying the English system of jurispru dence. Upon the continent of Europe the law school has always been deemed indis pensable. Bologna, now the most ancient

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was represented there. The fact is, and has been for centuries, that in most of the coun tries of Europe men enter the profession of the law through the Universities. But as recently as 1850, when Professor Amos came to the chair of English Law in the famous old University of Cambridge, the class of Eng lish Law in that institution could be counted on the fingers of one hand. It consisted of

THOMAS M. COOLEY. University in existence, was originally purely a law university, and law so predominated there that students of arts and of medicine were admitted only by enrolment in the law university, and on swearing obedience to its officers. Padua was likewise originally a law university, as were all the other Italian Universities with the possible exception of Salerno and perhaps Perugia. In France, Orleans, Bourges, and Poitiers are said to have been distinctively law universities; while Paris was distinctively a philosophi cal and theological university, although law

one A.M., one A.B., and two undergraduates. Of course the Inns of Court constituted a species of law school, and date back to an early period in English history, — that of Lin coln's Inn to the time of Edward II., and that of Gray's Inn to the time of Edward I [I. They were moreover well attended, as we learn from Chancellor Fortescue. But they were a poor apology for the modern law school as we know it in the United States or as it is known in Germany. In the Inns of Court young men " dined " themselves into the profession. Within the last ten