Talk:List of law schools attended by United States Supreme Court justices

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Untitled[edit]

The title of this article is nonsensical. I think it's trying to say, "List of law schools in descending order of United States Supreme Court Justices who attended the school." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.99.114 (talk) 22:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You evidently figured it out.Sweetmoose6 (talk) 02:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

After this discussion, articles were not merged. Cnilep (talk) 15:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by education is basically just a sloppy copy of List of Law Schools by United States Supreme Court Justices trained, and is extraneous. While we're at it, I'm not too thrilled about "List of Law Schools by United States Supreme Court Justices trained" as an article name either - it's rather unwieldy and doesn't reflect the justices who didn't go to law school. Wl219 (talk) 08:44, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

serious error[edit]

Not only did Sherman Minton go to law school, but he received an LLM from Yale. That's the only one I bothered checking -- I suspect that there are other errors on the list. 68.73.93.130 (talk) 01:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sherman Minton's law school attendance[edit]

Sherman Minton received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University (Bloomington). He did not attend law school in Bloomington. He went to the Benjamin Harrison School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana, a predecessor to what is now Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

The anonymous Wikipedia user is wrong. (Also, the anonymous Wikipedia user deleted my contribution to this talk page; I am reposting it).

Sherman Minton attended law school at Indiana University, he graduated in 1915. His alma matter is now known as the "Maurer School of Law." As evidence, his Congressional biography indicates this, and the Maurer School's website indicates this. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000800; http://law.indiana.edu/students/competitions/mootcourt/minton.shtml

Somebody has been editing Wikipedia to indicate that Sherman Minton attended a different law school, a school now known as the McKinney Law School in Indianapolis. This is incorrect. McKinney itself does not claim Sherman Minton as a graduate. Of note is that while the McKinney school is currently affiliated with Indiana University, this affiliation did not begin until 1944. http://indylaw.indiana.edu/admissions/about.htm.

Whoever is editing Wikipedia with the incorrect information regularly cites, as authority, "Gugin (1997), p. 51." I looked that book up, and checked it out from the library. That page from that book includes the following sentences: "One day when a flash flood swelled the normal trickle of the Jordan River, actually a creek that winds through the Bloomington campus, Minton plunged into the churning water and was swept away. With great effort he managed to pull himself to safety after grabbing hold of a bush." That exact same page also includes a story about him building scaffolding outside of Assembly Hall, which is on the campus at Bloomington, "to see an all-girl show." The scaffolding collapsed, and he was injured. It is absolutely and abundantly clear that Sherman Minton attended law school in Bloomington, at what is now the Maurer School of Law. Musskel (talk) 14:34, 22 September 2012 (UTC) Musskel (talk) 20:59, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete?[edit]

I happened to look for Joseph Story and discovered that he was not included anywhere in the article. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard, so I have added him, but I suspect that the article is missing other justices, probably especially those who did not attend law school. Can someone check and add whoever else happens to be missing? 107.145.77.108 (talk) 00:34, 9 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Law schools attended by unsuccessful nominees?[edit]

Could and/or should law schools attended by unsuccessful nominees be included as a separate section?

There exist five law schools attended by an unsuccessful nominee, but which have never been attended by a successful nominee:

University of North Carolina School of Law
- John J. Parker
University of Texas School of Law
- Homer Thornberry
  - No jurist gaining legal education from any public law school has been appointed to the Supreme Court since Thornberry’s failed 1968 nomination. The last successful nominee educated at a public law school was Charles Evans Whittaker from 1957 and the last sitting Justice educated at a public law school was Hugo Black who retired and died in 1971.
Mercer University School of Law
- G. Harrold Carswell
University of Chicago Law School
- Robert Bork
Southern Methodist University (Dedman School of Law)
- Harriet Miers

Luokehao (talk) 12:10, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]