New England School of Law/Boston is established.
1908
Founded by Arthur MacLean, a law partner of Gleason Archer, it is located initially in their offices at 88 Tremont Street. It begins when MacLean starts tutoring two women in his office and assumes its name in 1919, it moves to 45 Mount Vernon Street in 1921. The first and law school in the U.S. exclusively for women, it is named for Caesar’s wife in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Incorporated on July 25, 1918, the school grants its first LL.B. degrees in 1920, and admits men and establishes an undergraduate division, Calvin Coolidge College, in 1938. The graduate division becomes the New England School of Law in 1969, fully accredited in 1973, moves to its current location at 154 Stuart Street in 1980, and becomes New England School of Law/Boston in 2008.
Sources
- City Record
- & Boston Bar Association