The Law Center History Committee was created for the purpose of launching a research project into the history of Georgetown Law School, for the school's 125th anniversary. This collection consists of the research for the book "The First 125 Years 1870-1995 :Illustrated History of the Georgetown University Law Center."

Professor Dan Ernst wrote the text for the founding years and the formative years, for the project. He also edited an early draft of the modern era and most of the books's sidebars. He joined the Georgetown faculty in the 1988-89 academic year. He is the author of Lawyers Against Labor (1995), for which he received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association and co-editor of Total War and the Law (2003). In 1996, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand, and in 1998 he was the Jack and Margaret Sweet Visiting Professor of History at Michigan State University. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow during the 2003-04 academic year. From 2006 to 2010, he was co-editor of "Studies in Legal History," a book series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and the University of North Carolina Press. He teaches courses in American Legal History and Property.