Thursday, October 04, 2007

Wake County gets law school again

The big news in Raleigh today is Campbell University’s announcement that it is moving its school of law to Raleigh. The university’s Norman A. Wiggins School of Law will move from the Campbell campus at Buies Creek in Harnett County to a brick building in downtown Raleigh on Hillsborough Street just a couple blocks west of the Capitol.
It’s a coup for Raleigh, of course, but it’s also a big story for Wake County. The move returns a law school to Wake County for the first time in more than half a century. The old Wake Forest College School of Law in Wake Forest, N.C. moved to Winston-Salem in 1956 when the college packed up and took up quarters on a beautiful new campus in Forsyth County, thanks to a generous offer from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
There’s some symmetry to this current move: Norman Wiggins, for whom the Campbell law school is named, graduated from Campbell College when it was a two-year school, then earned his bachelor’s degree at Wake Forest College and a law degree from its law school – when the college was still in Wake Forest.
After earning a master’s degree and doctorate in law at Columbia, Wiggins returned as a law professor and general counsel at the new Wake Forest campus in Winston-Salem. In 1967 he became president of Campbell College, driving its growth, its name change to a university and creation of the law school, which was named for him in 1977. Wiggins died this summer, but discussions about a move to Raleigh had long been underway. Perhaps it’s appropriate that the name Norman Wiggins has accompanied the planned move of a law school to Wake County where Wiggins first got his legal training.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least this is a positive development on the Wake County government and education front. A Campbell law school in Raleigh will help re-invigorate legal education and career preparation in the state's fastest-growing county, soon to overtake Mecklenburg in population.

What's not so benevolent is the rabbit-out-of-a-hat financial extravaganza created recently for the Wake County schools when the judge in the Jim Black case just made up an extravagant figure out of the blue and set a fine of $1 million for the former Speaker of the N.C. House for a campaign violation involving unreported political funds with the transaction having occurred in Salisbury.

Salisbury and Rowan County schools won't see a penny of the revenue being derived from the court's ruling in the case. However, the whole bundle is slated for delivery to the Wake County schools, giving them a true leg up on all the other local school systems in teh state of North Carolina.

Take it from this journeyman violinist--Charlotte and Mecklenburg are now getting their first bitter lessons in how to play second fiddle to Wake County in state and local politics.

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