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A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree . Law schools in the U.S. confer the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is a professional doctorate. [1] It is the degree usually required to practice law in the United States, and ...
Harvard Law School ( HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States. Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ...
The legal education is a three tier system – 4-year bachelor's degree studies, 1-year Master of Law and 5-year doctoral studies. The Belgrade Law School is the most distinguished and largest by capacity in Serbia. Courses are offered in Serbian and English.
There are 198 ABA accredited law schools, along with one law school provisionally accredited by the ABA. [ 2] The ABA occasionally revokes accreditation, as was done mostly recently with the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2019. In the past decade, since 2014, 11 law schools have closed, with the most recent closing, of Golden Gate University ...
The New York University School of Law ( NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1835, it was the first law school established in New York City and is the oldest surviving law school in New York State and one of the oldest law schools in the United States.
There is no universally accepted ranking system, but many have attempted to divide law schools into "tiers" consisting of quartiles (50 law schools each) or perhaps eighths (25 law schools each), or have separated out the top 10 or top 20 law schools by U.S. News rank or median LSAT score.
Yale Law School ( YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United States. [ 3] Its yield rate of 87% is also consistently the highest of any law school in the United States.
Georgetown University Law Center. / 38.89833°N 77.01250°W / 38.89833; -77.01250. The Georgetown University Law Center is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment, with over 2,000 ...