Reeve, Tapping (1744–1823)

US law professor, jurist, and author. He was a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court 1798–1814. He was a staunch Federalist who was once indicted (1801) for having libelled President Jefferson in one of his vitriolic newspaper articles.

He was born in Brookhaven, New York. After graduating from (1763) and teaching at (1764–71) the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), he practised law in Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1784 he established the Litchfield Law School, one of the first two law schools in America and for many years the most influential. He wrote extensively on the law.