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From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia The UCLA School
of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles.
It is generally regarded as the best law school in Southern California and
amongst the premier law schools on the West Coast.[5] It is the youngest of
the top-tier U.S. law schools.[
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History
Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law is currently one of five existing law
schools within the University of California system. The others are UC
Berkeley School of Law, King Hall at UC Davis, UC Hastings College of the
Law in San Francisco, and UC Irvine School of Law.
UCLA Law's first dean was L. Dale Coffman, who recruited elderly Harvard
dean Roscoe Pound as one of the school's first professors.[7] The school was
forced to operate in a Quonset hut for its first two years until a proper
building was constructed. In September 1949, Pound insisted on delivering
the school's first ever keynote address in the Latin language, in the
Quonset hut.[8]
The UCLA Law Review, the law school's flagship scholarly journal, was first
published in 1953. Additionally, the first scholarly journal in the nation
focused on issues affecting Latinos, the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review, was
first published in 1971 as the Chicano Law Review.
[edit] Degrees and areas of specialization
The school offers the standard Juris Doctor degree as well as several
programs of specialization within the degree (which are indicated by
notations on a student's diploma). Students can specialize in Business Law
and Policy, Entertainment Law, Public Interest Law, Critical Race Studies,
and Law and Philosophy. The roughly 300 students who begin Law School at
UCLA every year are divided into sections in order to encourage a sense of
community. Students take all of their first year courses with their
sections.[9]
The Socratic method is still in use by most professors, but some faculty
allow for a slightly more relaxed classroom atmosphere than at other
top-tier law schools.[10] The school also has traditionally offered a strong
clinical program, which is housed in its own wing (built at a cost of $9
million).[11] Each year, the clinical program puts students through
realistic simulations of trials, depositions, and client meetings; these are
staffed with a pool of nearly 500 volunteers drawn from all over the
Southland who play parties, witnesses, judges, and jurors.[12]
Several joint degree programs are available. These require four years of
study, resulting in the simultaneous award of a Juris Doctor and a Master’s
Degree in Afro-American Studies, American Indian Studies, Management, Public
Health, Public Policy, Social Welfare, or Urban Planning.
The school also offers a Master of Laws (LL.M.) law program, which involves
one year of post-law-graduate studies. This program is popular among foreign
students, who then take the California bar exam.
Finally, it offers a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Degree, designed
for students who already have a J.D. and hope to become law professors.
[edit] Faculty and students
UCLA School of Law has over 100 faculty members with expertise in all major
disciplines of law; it "is one of the most diverse in the country."[10]
Since 2002, faculty members have published 48 new books, 45 chapters, and
over 150 journal articles.
Admission to UCLA Law is highly competitive. The admission rate for the
Class of 2012 was 16.8%, making the school among the most selective in the
country. To fill a class size of roughly 300 students, 1383 students were
admitted out of a pool of 8225 applicants. The median LSAT for the Class of
2012 was a 168, and the median GPA was a 3.77[13] The Princeton Review gives
UCLA Law an admissions selectivity rating of 96 out of 100.
The student body is "extraordinarily diverse."[14] Over 32% of the UCLA law
students are students of color, as 5.3% of the student body identify as
African American, 17.8% of the student body identify as Asian, 8.4% of the
student body identify as Hispanic or Laino(a) and 1.3% of the student body
identify as Native American. The student body is comprised of 49% females
and 51% males.
110 undergraduate schools are represented, with the top represented schools
by number of students enrolled for fall 2009 are: UCLA, UC Berkeley,
University of Southern California, UC San Diego, Stanford University,
University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UC Santa Barbara and Harvard
University. [15] 31% of UCLA law students hail from out-of-state, with
students coming from 33 states and 9 foreign countries.
94.9% of UCLA graduates have already secured employment by the time they
graduate; 99.1% of 2008 UCLA School of Law graduates seeking employment
secured professional employment within nine months of graduation. The median
starting salary in private practice in for the class of 2008 was $160,000.
UCLA also employs 8% of graduates in public-interest fields of law, thus
sporting one of the higher rates of public-interest graduates in the
country. While these UCLA-trained attorneys make significantly less than
their private-practice counterparts, their median starting salary, hovering
around $46,000, is one of the highest in the country. [16]
For the class of 2008, approximately 90% of UCLA Law first-time test takers
passed the July 2008 California Bar exam, compared to California's statewide
average of 75%. |
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