Following in Thorbecke's constitutionalist footsteps at Leiden were, notably, Johannes Theodoor Buys [nl], Joël Emanuel Goudsmit [nl] and Simon Vissering [nl]. Later in the 1870s opposition reformed against positivism around new treatments of classical notions, such as justice, through academics including Hendrik Lodewijk Drucker, Willem van der Vlugt [nl] and Tobias Asser.[14] Other notable faculty members of this period were Anthony Modderman and Henri van der Hoeven, the law school of the late 19th century had a considerable range of great scholars. During this time the law faculty dominated the university in terms of student numbers and it was not until after the 1876 Education Act that medical numbers increased steeply and overtook law.[15]