AUSTIN, TEXAS. 	SEPTEMBER, 1893. 


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TI-IE 	UNI,7ERSITY OF TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 
CIRCULAR. 
The attention of lawyers and students of law is called to the fact that the session of the Law Department begins on September 27, with such additions to its corps of instructors as enables it to add largely to the facilities offered students. 
INSTRUCTORS. 
Robert S. Gould, Professor of Law. 
Thomas S. Miller, Professor of Law. 
R. L. Batts, Assistant Professor of Law. 
John W. Stayton, Lecturer on Evidence. 

R . R. Gaines, Lecturer on Pleading and Practice . 
Prof. R. S. Gould has been one of the law faculty since the opening of the University, and brings to his work the experience of ten years as instructor in law. 
Prof. Thomas S. Miller is a native of Louisiana, and in the prime of life. He took both the Academic and the Law courses at Harvard Uni­versity, receiving the degrees of B. A. and LL. B. In 1877 he located in Dallas, and his subsequent career there has given him an enviable reputation amongst the bar and the people of Texas as a lawyer, as a scholar, and as a man. 
Prof. R. L. Batts is a native of Texas, born November 1, 1864, graduated with distinction in the Law Department of this University in the summer of 1886, was a member of the Twenty-second Legislature, and has recently been assistant to the Attorney-General of the State. His reputation for energy and ability, and his desire to devote his life to the work on which he now enters, justify the expectation that he will prove a most valuable addition to the law faculty. 
The Hon. John W. Stayton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, and the Hon. R. R. Gaines, Associate Justice of the same court, have, without compensation, agreed, so far as their official duties will allow it, to take charge of the law of procedure, or the subjects of Plead­ing, Practice, and Evidence. The advantage to students of instruction from these distinguished gentlemen is obvious. It is hoped that before the end of the session, the names of other distinguished judges and mem­bers of the bar may be added to the list of lecturers. 
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With these additional instructors, it has become practicable to add to the senior course the subject of Insurance, and to give largely additional instruction in the real estate law of Texas. 
It has also become practicable to inaugurate the long promised gradu­ate courses, including elementary instruction in Roman Law. 
It is also now found practicable to propose lectures at night, designed for the benefit of those whose employment will not allow them to attend at the regular lecture hours. It is believed that there are a number of young men in the city of Austin, either employed in some of the public departments or engaged in some business, who intend to become lawyers, who have sufficient time at their disposal to enable them to complete in three years the regular undergraduate two years course. If a sufficient number of such students present themselves they wiU be offered the same facilities extended to others, the exercises being shaped with reference to graduation in three years. For the present session this offer extends only to the studies of the junior year. 
The course of study required for graduation occupies two years, and there are in this course two classes, Junior and Senior. 
JUNIOR CLASS. 
Municipal Law, embracing the elementary law of Rights, Wrongs and Remedies, including the following subjects: Personal Rights; Domestic Relations; Estates in, and Titles to, Property, both real and personal; Torts; Criminal Law; Contract; Sales; Agency; Negotiable Instruments; Pleading; Practice and Evidence. 
SENIOR CLASS. 
The Government of the United States and of the State of Texas, with the Judicial System of each; International Law; Constitutional Law; Law of Real Property; Equity; Suretysbip and Guaranty; Insurance; Partnership; Private Corporations, and Legal Ethics. 
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION. 
The methods of instruction contemplate the use of text-books, with daily examinations and oral explanations; and also contemplate, thi:ough­out the en tire course, occasional lectures, supplementing the text. books and developing the peculiar features of Texas Jurisprudence. The stu­dents are also frequently exercised in the examination of legal questions, and in the oral presentation in the class-room of the results of their ex­amination, also occasionally in the preparation of legal instruments. 
MOOT COURT. 
The Moot Court commences to sit immediately after the Christmas recess, and continues during the remainder of the session. In this Court the members of the ~enior Class are assigned to prosecute and defend cases framed so as to present solely issues of law. They are required to prepare the pleadings in accordance with the rules regulating the District Courts so as to form these issues, and when so formed to support their side of the case with written briefs and oral arguments. The Court is presided over by one of the professors, assisted in turn by two members of the Senior Class. At the next sitting of the Court after the hearing of the case its opinion is delivered in writing by one or both of the assis­tant judges. 
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. 
All applicants, whether candidates for a degree or not, must be at least eighteen years of age, must have a sufficient English education to enable them to write with ordinary correctness, and mus.t also have a general knowledge of the outlines of English and American history. If these requirements are complied with, applicants not candidates for graduation, may be admitted as special students in either class, according to the ex­tent of their legal attainments. If admitted as special students, they must remain such during that session. 
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, except graduates of some approved high school or reputable college, must pass the following examinations: 
First. They must write a composition or essay on one of several desig­
nated subjects, which composition must be at least two pages of foolscap 
paper in length, correct in spelling, punctuation, capitals, and grammar, 
and, in style and matter, must exhibit a fair degree of culture and men­
tal training. 
Second. They must pass an examination either in Mathematics or in 
Latin, being substantially the same required for admission into the 
Academic Department. To be more specific: Applicants who elect the 
examination in Mathematics will be examined in Arithmetic; in Algebra, 
including Quadratic Equations; and in Plane Geometry. Those electing 
the examination in Latin should be prepared to translate the first two 
books of Cresar's Commentaries, three of Cicero's Orations, and the first 
two books of Virgil's JEneid. Equivalent study of other Latin authors 
will be accepted. 
Third. They must pass an examination in the History of England 
and of the United States. 
Applicants for admission to the Senior Class will, of course, be sub­
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jected to the same examination for admission as others, and will also be examined on the studies of the Junior Year. If found deficient in only one of those studies, they may be allowed to join the Senior Class, being required to attend with the Junior Class in that particular study. 
Applicants who have to be examined should present themselves promptly on Wednesday, the first day of the session. The examinations begin on the next day, and those coming later may have to submit to tedious delays. 
No student not enrolled as a member of the Senior Class will be en­titled to examination for graduation, but members of either class are privileged to be present at the exercises of the other. 
Upon a successful completion of the course, the degree conferred is Bachelor of Laws. 
A recent act of the Legislature of the State enables a graduate of the Law Department to obtain license in any of the courts of the State, with­out examination. 
GRADUATE COURSES, 
The graduate courses are designed to give students who have taken the regular course successfully an opportunity to spend a thfrd year of study in the Law Department, and to choose between two distinct and different lines of study. The first course is intended to meet the wants of those who merely wish to obtain a more complete mastery of our own system of law by studying other purely professional subjects not em­braced in the undergraduate course, or perhaps by making a more exhaustive study of some subjects in that course. 
The second course is. intended for those who wish to enlarge the scope of their studies and to equip themselves for a career not exclusively professional. 
Probably, during the present session, the studies of the graduate stu­dents will include a part of each of the two courses, which are outlined as follows: 
COURSE  1.  
Municipal Corporations.  Insurance.  
Real Estate .  Wills and Administration.  
Conflict of Laws.  Admirality.  

COURSE 2. 
Roman Law. General and Comparative Jurisprudence. Constitutional History. 
LIBRARY. 
The library of the Supreme Court is accessible to students, and affords excellent facilities for investigation. The law library of the University is small, but contains two complete sets of Texas Reports, including those of the Court of Appeals; a set of the United States Supreme Court Re­ports; also complete sets of American Decisions, American Reports, and, so far as issued, American State Reports. 
FEES. 
On and after September 28, 1893, the fee for admission will be thirty dollars and will exempt the student from any further fee in this or any other department of the University. Any former student of the Uni­versity will be required, on entering this department, to pay only the difference between thirty dollars and the sum of the matriculation fees already paid by him. 
RECESS. 
In the Law Department, as in the Department of Literature, Science, and Arts, there will be a week's recesi; at Christmas. 
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