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Nebraska College of Law History
The University of Nebraska College of Law was established in 1891 when the University's Board of Regents voted to take over the private, two-year-old Central Law College and incorporate it into the University system. The first classes were offered in the fall of 1891 and in 1893 Manoah B. Reese, a former justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, became the first Dean of the College of Law. Reese served as dean until 1903, when Roscoe Pound assumed the deanship. Dean Pound's goal was to revolutionize the training of lawyers by making academic legal study the primary means of preparation for law practice.