Washington and Lee University

The Washington and Lee University School of Law is a private American Bar Association-accredited law school located in Lexington in the Shenandoah... Valley region of Virginia. Facilities are currently on the campus of Washington and Lee University in Sydney Lewis Hall. W&L Law is known as one of the smallest top law schools in the country, with a total enrollment of approximately 400 students and a 9.52-to-1 student to faculty ratio. The Lexington Law School, the precursor to W&L Law, was founded in 1849 by Judge John White Brockenbrough and is the 17th oldest law school in the United States. The Law School was not integrated into Washington and Lee University until after the Civil War when Robert E. Lee was president of the university. In 1866, the School of Law was annexed to the university and known as the School of Law and Equity. In 1870, former Virginia Attorney General John Randolph Tucker was appointed to the faculty and later became Dean followed by his son Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. In 1900, the law school moved into the newly built Tucker Hall in memory of Dean Tucker.
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Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the... 1960s and 1970s. Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Louise , a landscape designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Sr., an agronomist. Wolfe was student council president, editor of the school newspaper and a star baseball player at St. Christopher's School, an Episcopalian all-boys school in Richmond, Virginia. Upon graduation in 1949, he turned down admission at Princeton University to attend Washington and Lee University, both all-male schools at the time. Wolfe majored in English and practiced his writing outside the classroom as well. He was sports editor of the college newspaper and helped found a literary magazine, Shenandoah. Of particular influence was his professor Marshall Fishwick, a teacher of American Studies educated at Yale. More in the tradition of anthropology than literary scholarship, Fishwick taught his classes to look at the whole of a culture, including those elements considered profane.
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