Tapping Reeve (October 1, 1744 – December 13, 1823) was an American lawyer, judge, and law educator. In 1784 he opened the Litchfield Law School, the first law school in the United States, in Litchfield, Connecticut.[1][2]
^Cite error: The named reference YaleLaw was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"1966 Debate Over the First Law School in America | College of William & Mary Law School". scholarship.law.wm.edu. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
TappingReeve (October 1, 1744 – December 13, 1823) was an American lawyer, judge, and law educator. In 1784 he opened the Litchfield Law School, the...
school established in America for reading law. Founded and led by lawyer TappingReeve, the proprietary school was unaffiliated with any college or university...
Levi Woodbury, appointed to the Court in 1846. Woodbury had attended TappingReeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, the most prestigious law school...
entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under TappingReeve, Elisha Williams, and James Gould, he returned to Kingston, New York...
moved to Litchfield, Connecticut to study law with his brother-in-law TappingReeve, founder of the Litchfield Law School. In 1775, news reached Litchfield...
line of a letter to a friend. Esther Burr's daughter, Sarah, married TappingReeve, previously Aaron Jr. and Sarah's School Tutor and the founder of America's...
Scholar who served with Ellen Ash Peters, Arthur Healey, and David Shea. TappingReeve (1798–1823, Chief Justice, 1814–1823), succeeded Stephen Mix Mitchell...
Hawaiian native instrumental in founding the Foreign Mission School TappingReeve, lawyer and educator Thomas Robbins, Congregational minister and librarian...
the former Hannah Rolfe. He graduated from the local academy, run by TappingReeve and Francis Barber, where he was classmates with Alexander Hamilton...
Law School, operating simultaneously in Litchfield, CT and founded by TappingReeve in 1784. Students often attended each school from the same families...
Levi Woodbury, appointed to the court in 1846. Woodbury had attended TappingReeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, prior to his admission to the...
purpose of teaching law was the Litchfield Law School, set up by Judge TappingReeve in 1784 to organize the large number of would-be apprentices or lecture...
Generations of Gardeniers in America (1990), p. 2. Marian C. McKenna, TappingReeve and the Litchfield Law School (1986), p. 190. Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene...
legal rights" during the 18th century. Sedgwick enlisted the aid of TappingReeve, the founder of Litchfield Law School, one of America's earliest law...
school was the Litchfield Law School, founded in 1782 in Connecticut by TappingReeve. Between 1784 and its closure in 1833, it trained over 1000 lawyers...
of White Plains in 1776. As a relatively young lawyer, Sedgwick and TappingReeve pleaded the case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley (1781), an early "freedom...
College in 1791, studied law in Litchfield, Connecticut with Judge TappingReeve, who also taught Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun. In 1793, Porter was...
graduated from Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1809, briefly attended TappingReeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, and read law to be admitted to...
began painting prominent local people as well as students from the TappingReeve Law School and the Litchfield Female Academy founded by Sarah Pierce...
Global Information