MEDALLIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS
Thirty-six medallions and two inscriptions surround the hundred-year-old, newly renovated Silverman Hall at 34th and Chestnut Streets. They enshrine some familiar and not-so-familiar figures from European and American legal history along with, at the 34th Street entrance, James Wilson and George Sharswood, two giants in the history of the Law School. For an insightful overview of these "greats" in the context of legal history and education, please see Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon's article, "Chiseling Legal Tradition."
Medallions Facing the West Courtyard
| POTHIER |
French Jurist (1699-1772) |
| DOMAT |
French Jurisconsult (1625-1696) |
| SAVIGNY |
German Jurist (1779-1861) |
| GAIUS |
Roman Jurist (c. 130-180) |
| PAPINIAN |
Roman Jurist (c. 140-212) |
| ULPIAN |
Roman Jurist (fl. 211-222) |
Medallions Facing Sansom Street
| TRIBONIAN |
Byzantine Jurist and Minister for Justinian
(d. 545) |
| JUSTINIAN |
Byzantine Emperor and Legal Reformer (483-565) |
| GREGORIUS |
Pope Gregory IX (1143-1241)(Pope 1227-1241) |
| BRACTON |
English Jurist (d. 1268) |
| EDWARD I |
King of England (1239-1307) |
| COKE |
English Jurist (1552-1634) |
| HALE |
Lord Chief Justice of England (1609-1676) |
| PRATT |
Lord Chancellor of England (1714-1794) |
| HOLT |
Lord Chief Justice of England (1642-1710) |
Medallions Facing Chestnut Street
| BLACKBURN |
English Jurist (1813-1896) |
| FIELD |
American Lawyer and Legal Reformer (1805-1894) |
| BRADLEY |
Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court (1813-1892) |
| GROTIUS |
Dutch Jurist and Statesman (1583-1645) |
| VATTEL |
Swiss Jurist (1714-1767) |
| STOWELL |
English Jurist (1745-1836) |
| ELDON |
Lord High Chancellor of England (1751-1838) |
| HARDWICKE |
Lord Chancellor of England (1690-1764) |
| JESSEL |
English Jurist (1824-1883) |
Medallions & Inscriptions Facing Thirty-Fourth Street
| BLACKSTONE |
English Jurist (1723-1780) |
| KENT |
American Jurist (1763-1847) |
| MANSFIELD |
Chief Justice of England (1705-1793) |
| MADISON |
Fourth President of the United States (1751-1836) |
| HAMILTON |
American Statesman and Economist (1755-1804) |
| WEBSTER |
American Lawyer and Statesman (1782-1852) |
| WILSON |
Philadelphia Lawyer, Delivered
the First Law Lectures at Penn in 1790 (1742-1798) |
| SHARSWOOD |
Chief Justice, Pennsylvania
Supreme Court, Penn Law Professor who reorganized
the Law Department in 1850 (1810-1883) |
| GIBSON |
Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
(1780-1853) |
| TILGHMAN |
Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
(1756-1827) |
| BINNEY |
Philadelphia Lawyer (1780-1875) |
| STORY |
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1779-1845) |
| MARSHALL |
First Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
(1755-1835) |
| TANEY |
Fifth Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
(1777-1864) |
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