John B. Minor

John Barbee Minor (1813 to 1895) was an American jurist and professor of law. Born in Louisa County, Virginia, he took his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Virginia in 1834 and practiced law at Buchanan and then Charlottesville before being elected professor of law at the University of Virginia in 1845, a chair he held until his death. He was the sole instructor of the law department until 1851 and later taught common and statutory law. In 1870 he began a summer course of law lectures regarded as the first summer law school in the United States, and he published the four-volume Institutes of Common and Statute Law (1875 to 1895) and an Exposition of the Law of Crimes and Punishments (1894). Woodrow Wilson and James Clark McReynolds were among his students.