Skip to Main Content
Campbell University | Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law Library Home

 

History of Campbell Law School

Celebrating 50 years of making great lawyers.

Throughout our remarkable fifty-year journey, Campbell Law has remained true to its core principles while offering students a cutting edge legal education. In this guide, you will find local newspaper clippings and other ephemera that tell the story of Campbell Law School's beginning at Campbell University's home campus of Buies Creek to the move to our current home in downtown Raleigh. It is an excellent resource for those looking for research on the the Law School's early history, as well as for those wanting to learn more about the school itself. 

Our Story in Pictures

1975 - Campbell Law's first Dean -- F. Leary Davis

1976 - 1L Registration

1976 - Senator Morgan Speaks at Orientation

1977- Honor Code Committee

1978 - Dean Davis with his three children, Trey, Ben, and Elizabeth Joy

1979 - Campbell Law Mock Trial

1979 - Law School Civil Rights Research Committee

1979 Student Bar Association

1979 - Law Review

1979 - U.S. Senator Robert Morgan at Charter Class Graduation

1980 - Student Studying

1981 - Law school class in the courtroom

1982 - Campbell Law

1982 - Law School Class

1982 - Student Studying

1991 - 1L Orientation

First-year law students take notes in 1L Orientation.

1991 - Library

Students studying the library, 1991. 

1993 - Professor Margaret Currin and Former Dean F. Leary Davis

Professor Margaret Currin. Professor Currin's son, and former Dean F. Leary Davis pose with a picture taken of them during the registration of the charter class in 1976

1991 - 1993

The addition of Wiggins Hall to Kivett Hall began in 1991 and was completed in 1993. 

1995 - Computer Lab

1995 - Trial Advocacy