See this article on Bryd receiving, finally, his college degree:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85823,00.html
The article says that he had earned his law degree from another university…
My question is how can he earn a law degree before earning a college degree ? Isn’t that a requirement ?
I know back in the day, one would be able to apprentice and become a lawyer, but when was that changed, and the requirement for a college degree added ?
Anyone know ?
Back in the day (waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day) you could get a law degree without having attended college. You earned a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Case in point: my law school alma mater, the University of Texas has a really stupid mascot, the Peregrinus. I’ll spare you the stupid story behind it; suffice it to say it was created shortly before the turn of the (last) century; the name sprung from non-college-educated students becoming familiar with a new word: “peregrinate” (that the students are mostly poorly educated rural folk looking to be country lawyers while the professor is Ivy League educated in the classics factors heavily into the story). So UT Law circa 100 years ago did not require an undergraduate degree for admission.
I have no idea when the study of law started to become a graduate-level discipline, nor do I know how rapidly that new scheme was adopted at the various law schools across the nation.