The Baylor Law School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas was founded in 1857 and ceased operations in 1883. It was then established for a second time in 1920 under the leadership of Dean Allen Flowers. The mission of Baylor Law is to expose students to those basic legal principles that serve as the foundation for our system of justice; to develop in students the core lawyering skills of clear thinking, writing, and speaking; and to provide students using this knowledge and skill to perform a reasonable range of lawyering tasks. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... Waco may refer to multiple places in the United States of America: Waco, Georgia Waco, Kentucky Waco, Missouri Waco, Nebraska Waco, North Carolina Waco, Texas Waco may also refer to: a dialect of the Wichita language Siege of Waco, a 1993 confrontation between U.S. federal agents and the Branch... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Baylor University is a private, Baptist-affiliated research university located in Waco, Texas. ... Waco may refer to multiple places in the United States of America: Waco, Georgia Waco, Kentucky Waco, Missouri Waco, Nebraska Waco, North Carolina Waco, Texas Waco may also refer to: a dialect of the Wichita language Siege of Waco, a 1993 confrontation between U.S. federal agents and the Branch... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...

Baylor Law teaches the practical aspects of the law in addition to the usual theoretical legal education. Baylor Law has a reputation for being the "boot camp of law schools"^{[citation needed]} because of the rigorous curriculum and high expectations of faculty. For example, Baylor Law students are required to stand when speaking and to pass the notorious Practice Court program (where an average night's worth of reading will be 300+ pages in addition to various advocacy exercises).

For the Winter 2006 offering of the Texas Bar Exam, the school boasted a 97% bar passage rate [1].

Notable Alumni

• Colonel Leon Jaworski(1924) - Watergate Special Prosecutor; Senior Partner, Fullbright & Jaworski Houston, Texas; Served on the Warren Commission; President American Bar Association (1971-1972); Chief of War Crimes detachment of the JAG Corps of the US Army (1944-1946);Treasurer and co-founder, Democrats for Reagan.

• Marion Price Daniel(1932) - United States Senator (1953—1957); Governor of Texas (1957—1963); Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1943–1945);Justice, Texas Supreme Court (1971-1978).

• Priscilla Owen, J.D. (1977) - Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (2005-Present); Former Texas Supreme Court Justice (1994-2005).

• Justice Rebecca Simmons- Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals, Texas

• William D. Underwood- President, Mercer University; former Interim President, Baylor University (not an alumnus but a former professor of law)

• Charles Wallace Barrow- Former Justice, Texas Supreme Court

• Phillip Benjamin Baldwin- Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

• Julie Kenner- Author

• Mark Wells White- Governor of Texas (1983-1987)

• James B. Adams- Texas legislator, and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1978-79)

• William Sessions- Director of the FBI (1987-1993)

• Max Sandlin- Judge, US Congressman (1997-2005)

• Louie Gohmert- US Congressman (2005-present)

• Beau Boulter- US Congressman (1985-1989)

• Jack M. Fields- US Congressman (1981-1997)

• Thomas C. Mann- US Ambassador to El Salvador (1955-1957) and US Ambassador to Mexico (1961-1963)

• Lyndon L. Olson- US Ambassador to Sweden (1998-2001)

• Joe L. Allbritton- Billionaire and CEO of Riggs National

Leon Jaworski (September 19, 1905 - December 9, 1982) was the Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. ... Marion Price Daniel, Sr. ... Priscilla Owen (born in Palacios, Texas, October 4, 1954) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. ... Justice Rebecca Simmons is a justice on the fourth court of appeals in Texas. ... William D. Underwood is the eighteenth president of Mercer University, an independent, coeducational, church-related, private university, located in the U.S. state of Georgia with major campuses in Macon, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia. ... Justice Charles Barrow Charles Wallace Barrow (born 22 September 1921 in Poteet, Texas, died 25 June 2006) was a former Justice to the Texas Supreme Court and a Dean of Baylor University Law School. ... Phillip Benjamin Baldwin (December 23, 1924 - April 20, 2002) from 1968 to 1991 served as a judge on U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. ... Julie Kenner (born Julia Beck in Mountain View, California)[1] is an award-winning American author. ... Mark Wells White (born 1940) is an American lawyer and a former Democratic governor of Texas. ... James Blackburn Adams (born December 21, 1926) was an attorney, Texas legislator, and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... Categories: Stub | 1930 births | Directors of the FBI | People from Arkansas ... Max A. Sandlin, Jr. ... Louis Buller Louie Gohmert, Jr. ... Eldon Beau Boulter of Amarillo served as a Republican in Congress from 1985-1989. ... Jack Fields Jack Milton Fields, Jr. ... Thomas C. Mann (born November 11, 1912 in Laredo, Texas) was a diplomat who specialized in Latin American affairs, worked for the U.S. Department of State from 1942 to 1966. ... Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr. ...

External links

• Baylor University web site
• Baylor School of Law web site