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Authors

Cathy Cox

Publication Date

12-2022

Document Type

Special Contribution

Abstract

Longtime readers of Mercer Law Review’s Annual Survey of Georgia Law likely know that Mercer Law School is steeped in history. It is the first American Bar Association-accredited law school in the state of Georgia, having earned that distinction in 1925—more than fifty years after the law school was actually founded in 1873. In the same vein, the Mercer Law Review was founded in 1949 and remains the oldest continuously-published law journal in Georgia.

When I became a student at Mercer Law School, I knew little about Mercer Law’s history or heritage, or for that matter, about lawyers or law practice. I enrolled thinking I needed to get a legal education to write more intelligently for the newspaper where I had been working, but the Mercer “mystique” captured me in short order.

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