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As of 2015, Alaska was the only state without a law school, but Seattle University School of Law has opened a satellite campus at Alaska Pacific University, where law students from any ABA accredited school can study Alaska-specific courses during summers or for part or all of their third (and final) year of law school.
Southwestern Law School: Private Full ABA 1911 1970 Urban California Stanford Law School: Private Full ABA 1893 1923 Suburban California (San Diego) Thomas Jefferson School of Law: Private California 1969 2020 Urban California Trinity Law School, Trinity International University: Private California 1980 State approved Suburban
This category contains ABA accredited law schools in the United States that are not attached to a college or university, as well as independent law schools that ceased to exist prior to the implementation of ABA accreditation.
Originally the second of three degrees in sequence – Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B., last conferred by an American law school in 1970); LL.M.; and Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or Doctor of Laws, which has only been conferred in the United States as an honorary degree but is an earned degree in other countries. In American legal academia, the LL.M. was ...
As part of the revolving door between the ABA and start up law schools, Concord hired Barry Currier from 2004 to 2010 as Dean of the law school. [5] The merger of Concord into Kaplan University in late 2007 made Concord the first online law school to be part of a regionally accredited university.
Law schools that offer accelerated JD programs have unique curricula for such programs. Nonetheless, ABA-approved law schools with Accelerated JD programs must meet ABA rules. Finally, the emphasis in law schools is rarely on the law of the particular state in which the law school sits, but on the law generally throughout the country.
In March 2012, the ABA again granted provisional accreditation. [12] Finally, on March 14, 2016, the College received full accreditation from the ABA. [13] However, in November 2019, the College of Law’s board of trustees voted to convert the school from an ABA-accredited institution to one approved by the State Bar of California instead.
In California, students can attend unaccredited law schools for 4 years through either a correspondence or online law school. Once a law student has successfully completed their first year of law school, Business and Professions Code section 6060 requires the student to take and pass the First Year Law Student Examination (FYLSE), commonly known as the "baby bar", within the first three ...