Law school to hold first Alumni Distinguished Lecture
March 13, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – March 13, 2009 – Legal order in colonial South Carolina will be the topic of the University of South Carolina School of Law’s first Alumni Distinguished Lecture, set for 5 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the law auditorium.
William E. Nelson, the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and History at New York University and one of the country’s foremost legal historians, will deliver the lecture, titled, The Height of Sophistication: Law and Professionalism in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina, 1670-1775.
Nelson served as law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court of the United States and has authored more than 10 books, including, most recently, “The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660.
