The School
Since enrolling its first class in 1865, The George Washington University Law School has produced some of the finest minds across the spectrum of legal scholarship. That tradition continues today, as GW Law graduates use the knowledge and skills they gain here to influence the critical legal conversations of our times.
"...our class on constitutional law had to hold its sessions in the larger room of what was called Columbian Hall since the lectures were given by the renowned Mr. Justice John Maynard Harlan, and there was always a gallery of visitors. ...
... Mr. Justice David Brewer also was a member of the law faculty, as was also Willis Van Devanter, destined later to become a member of the United States Supreme Court."
Memories of the Law School from Jessie W. Barrett, LL.B., 1905. More