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James Barr Ames (1846-1910) became assistant professor of Law in 1873. Professor in 1877, Bussey Professor in 1879, and Dane Professor in 1903. In 1895 he succeeded Langdell as Dean. The time when he with Gray and Thayer were teaching at the school under Langdell is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
Joseph Story (1779-1845) was Dane Professor of Law from 1829 to 1845. He was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1813 to 1845. His treatises, published between 1832 and 1845, on different subjects of commercial law, on conflict of laws, on equity, and on constituional law, had much to do with the shaping of American law in its formative period. Story is one of the great figures in American judicial history, as well as in American law writing and law teaching...
Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853) was Royall Professor from 1833 to 1846, and Dane Professor, succeeding Story, from 1846 to 1848. The time when story and Greenleaf were associated in teaching is reckoned as one of the great periods in the school's history. Greenleaf's "Treatise on Evidence", embodying the results of his teaching of that subject in the school, was for a long time the standard work upon the subject, and is still an authority...
Parsons a Dane Professor...
Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882) was Dane Professor of Law, succeeding Greenleaf, from 1848 to 1870. His "Treatise on Contracts", published originally in 1853, went through nine editions and was the standard treatise upon the subject until the publication of Professor Samuel Williston's '82 great book in 1920. The time when Parsons taught in association with Joel Parker and Emory Washburn is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...