More than any other institution, the University of Mississippi Law School has shaped the laws of its state. Graduates dominate the state Supreme Court, state bar and make up a quarter of the legislature. Few out-of-state professors ever strayed to Ole Miss until early in the civil rights movement, and then a couple of events almost knocked it loose from its antebellum attitudes.
In 1962 James Meredith shook the uni versity by becoming an undergraduate; a year later the law school got a new dean, Joshua Morse III, now 45. Morse began his reign by taking a year off and...
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