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This category includes law schools in California that are approved (including provisionally approved) by the American Bar Association. It also includes law schools that are no longer open. It also includes law schools that are no longer open.
As of 2025, 19 law schools are approved by the State Bar of California. [4] Other states that approve non-ABA accredited law schools include Alabama, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. Also, the CBE allows registered unaccredited schools to operate and students of those schools are eligible to take the California Bar Examination upon graduation.
In March 2018, Law.com ranked Tulane Law 36th among its list of The Top 50 Go-To Law Schools. [24] Tulane Law is ranked 37th in Law School 100's 2018 ranking, which relies on a qualitative assessment. [25] The Leiter Law School ranking, conducted in 2010, put Tulane at 38th, based on student quality. [26]
Levi Woodbury was the first Justice to have formally attended a law school. Stanley Forman Reed was the last sitting Justice not to have received a law degree.. The Constitution of the United States does not require that any federal judges have any particular educational or career background, but the work of the Court involves complex questions of law – ranging from constitutional law to ...
This exceeds the 40% minimum rate for California accredited law schools, but is below the 75% require for ABA approved law schools. [6] Due to the small number of St. Francis graduates taking the bar exam, statistics on St. Francis graduates' performance on individual exams are not published by the California state bar. [7]
As of 2006, Concord was the largest of the seven distance learning law schools. [19] The California School of Law, founded in 2007, is the first law school to utilize synchronous technology in all courses. [20] Such technology provides direct communication between professors and students in live “real time” virtual classrooms.
Western State College of Law was founded in 1966 in Orange County, California. [5] [6] In 1987, the school applied for accreditation with the American Bar Association (ABA).). Although the school was unsuccessful in this attempt, it was at the time accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges [8] [9] and by the California State Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE).
Of all the law schools in California, Berkeley had the highest bar passage rates in 2021 (95.5%) and 2022 (92.2%). [4] [9] The school offers J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and Ph.D. degrees, and enrolls approximately 320 to 330 J.D. students in each entering class, annually, with each class being further broken down into smaller groups that take courses ...