McGeorge School of Law

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
McGeorge School of Law
Other forms of name
Pacific McGeorge (School)
Pacific McGeorge School of Law
University of the Pacific. McGeorge School of Law
Coordinates
-121.473 -121.473 38.5492 38.5492 (gooearth )
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 130152778
Wikidata: Q6801255
Library of congress: n 50047090
Sources of Information
  • De minimis, fall 1974.
  • McGeorge, 1982, issue 1:t.p. (University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law)
  • Its Web site, June 18, 2009(University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Pacific McGeorge School of Law; Pacific McGeorge; Pacific McGeorge history: fall 1921, Verne Adrian McGeorge offered to lecture on the law in his residence when the operators of a fledgling law school had decided to abandon the project the evening before classes were to begin; arrangement continued until January 1924 when several civic-minded leaders joined McGeorge in founding a non-profit corporation, the Sacramento College of Law [no publs. in LC database]; McGeorge was appointed manager of the college, later named dean and professor of law; in 1929, the Board of Trustees, after receiving complaints about the similarity of names from Sacramento City College and Sacramento Main High School, changed the law school's shingle to McGeorge College of Law [no publs. in LC database]; one-room night school; McGeorge merged with the University of the Pacific in 1966 and began offering day classes the following year)