Augusta Law School was a

law school A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction. Law degrees Argentina In Argentina, ...

Augusta, Georgia Augusta ( ), officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navig ...

which operated from 1833 to 1854. It was the first law school in Georgia and in the

Deep South The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. The term was first used to describe the states most dependent on plantations and slavery prior to the American Civil War. Following the war ...

. It was modeled after the influential

Litchfield Law School The Litchfield Law School of Litchfield, Connecticut, was the first independent law school established in America for reading law. Founded and led by lawyer Tapping Reeve, the proprietary school was unaffiliated with any college or university. (Whi ...

, and was founded by

William Tracy Gould William Tracy Gould (October 25, 1799 – July 18, 1882) was an American lawyer and founder of the Augusta Law School, the first law school in the Deep South. Gould, son of Judge James Gould and Sally McCurdy Tracy, daughter of the Hon. Uriah T ...

, a graduate of Litchfield and the son of its director, James Gould.

References

* Hunter, Thomas Rogers. "Litchfield On The Savannah: William Tracy Gould And The Deep South's First Law School." '' Journal of Southern Legal History'' 19.(2011): 177–263. Defunct private universities and colleges in Georgia (U.S. state) Law schools in Georgia (U.S. state) Defunct law schools {{law-school-stub