History

Since 1957, the William and Mary Law Review has published important scholarly work and has become one of the top general interest law journals in the country. Published six times per year—in October, November, December, March, April, and May—the Review has featured the work of noted scholars in all areas of the law.

The Chair of Law at the College of William & Mary is the oldest in the United States and one of the oldest in the English-speaking world. Through the efforts of Thomas Jefferson, the College of William & Mary created a professorship of Law and Police on December 4, 1779. The College chose as the first occupant of the Chair George Wythe, in whose offices Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Monroe, and Henry Clay studied.

From 1779 until the beginning of the Civil War, the study of law at William & Mary continued to develop. Due to the outbreak of hostilities in 1861 and the commencement of military campaigns on the Virginia Peninsula, the College was compelled to close its doors. Sixty years later, however, the historic priority in law was revived in a modern program that is now more than eighty years old.

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