Sigma Nu Phi
| Delta Theta Phi | |
|---|---|
| ΔΘΦ | |
| Founded | 1900 Cleveland Law School |
| Type | Professional |
| Emphasis | Law |
| Publication | The Adelphia Law Journal,The Paper Book |
| Headquarters |
Campbell Univ., Wiggins School of Law 225 Hillsborough Street, Ste 432Raleigh, North Carolina United States |
| Website | www |
Campbell Univ., Wiggins School of Law
Delta Theta Phi (ΔΘΦ) is a professional law fraternity and a member of the Professional Fraternity Association. Delta Theta Phi is the only one of the two major law fraternities to charter chapters (senates) in the United States at non-American Bar Association-approved law schools. Delta Theta Phi can trace its roots to 1900 at the then-named Cleveland Law School. Delta Theta Phi has initiated more than 136,000 members across the country and in several other nations.
Delta Theta Phi is the only law fraternity with an authoritatively recognized law review, The Adelphia Law Journal. Membership is the only requirement to submit a note for consideration for publication.
The governing body for the fraternity, called the Supreme Senate, has overseen the operation of the fraternity since 1913. The Supreme Senate was originally composed of seven elected officers until a student was added to the board to assure a more complete student representation. In the 1970s, a second student position was added. On Saturday, August 5, 2017, At the 60th Biennial Convention in New Orleans, LA the International Senate elected the following members to serve as the Supreme Senate for the 61st Biennium:
Delta Theta Phi was established Sept. 26th, 1913, by the consolidation or union of three previously existing professional fraternities, viz.: Alpha Kappa Phi, Delta Phi Delta and Theta Lambda Phi.
Delta Phi Delta was founded at the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin University, September, 1900, by C. E. Schmick, E. Quigley, F. W. Sinram, J. L. Barrett, W. F. Mackay, J. H. Orgill and Arthur Born. It went national with the establishment of Beta Chapter (now Harlan-McKusick Senate) at the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1904. Delta Phi Delta's Magazine was the Syllabus, first published in 1911. Delta Theta Phi now uses that name for the newsletter distributed to elected members of the administrative organization.
Alpha Kappa Phi was founded at the law school of Northwestern University October 6, 1902. Seeking to secure the advantage of an earlier date of origin its founders took the name of an old undergraduate fraternity called Alpha Kappa Phi which originated at Centre College, Ky., in 1858 and established a number of chapters in the South, the last one of which at the University of Mississippi became a chapter of Beta Theta Pi in 1879, becoming extinct a few years later. They also sought to secure some sanction for their conduct by securing permission of the living members of the extinct society to such assumption of their abandoned name. But it is obvious that no expedient of this kind could alter the actual date of the organization of this fraternity or serve as a basis for a claim to an earlier date than 1902.
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