Word: vinerian
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...Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship of law in the English-speaking world. The picture has the distinction of being the only painting in the Law School that includes women. On each side of the Royall group are portraits of early members of the Law School Faculty. Here are likenesses...
...Harvard Law Review will embark on its forty-third year of publication with its November issue. Sir William Searle Holesworth. Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls' College. Oxford, Erwin N. Griswold of the Ohio Bar Association. Professor Felix Frankfurter, LLB. '06, and James M. Sandis are among the contributors to the first number...
...William Holesworth, who is the author of the "History of English Law" has written an essay on "Blackstone's Treatment of Equity". Blackstone was the first to hold the Vinerian professorship which Holesworth now holds. Famous for his "Commentaries". Blackstone exerted a powerful influence on American law at a time when law books were exceedingly scarce in this country. The "Commentaries" consist chiefly of the material which the author used for his lectures and, similarly. Holesworth's article contains material from these lectures...
William Searle Holdsworth, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford, received the Ames Prize, awarded by the Faculty of Harvard Law School for "the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in English and published during the years...
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