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 The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1990, it was regarded by Cynthia Cooper as the top law school in Southern California. [5] Until the establishment of the UC Davis School of Law in 1965, it is was the youngest of the top-tier U.S. law schools.[6][7]
[edit] HistoryFounded 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.[8] 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.[9] 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 specializationThe 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.[10] 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.[11] The school also has traditionally offered a strong clinical program, which is housed in its own wing (built at a cost of $9 million).[12] 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.[13] 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 studentsUCLA 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."[11] 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 2011 was 16.6%, making the school among the most selective in the country. To fill a class size of roughly 300 students, 1331 students were admitted out of a pool of 8007 applicants. The median LSAT for the Class of 2011 was a 168, and the median GPA was a 3.74[14] The Princeton Review gives UCLA Law an admissions selectivity rating of 96 out of 100. The student body is "extraordinarily diverse."[15] 99.6% of 2004 UCLA School of Law graduates seeking employment secured professional employment within nine months of graduation. The median starting salary for 2004 graduates was $110,000. Among 2004 graduates employed in the private sector, the median salary was $125,000. In 2007 it was $135,000. [edit] Location UCLA School of Law is located on the northeastern edge of the UCLA campus in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.[16] The school is approximately five miles from the Pacific Ocean. The school proper is housed in a five-story brick building known simply as the Law Building. The oldest parts of the Law Building's interior are notorious for a "high school atmosphere" and "dark, drafty classrooms,"[17] but it has been extensively improved by the addition of the clinical wing in 1990 and the new law library in 2001. A few offices, like the Office of Career Services, are housed in an adjacent building, Dodd Hall. The campus sits on the sloping foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, between the communities of Brentwood to the west and Holmby Hills to the east. The entrance to the Playboy Mansion is a short ways up Sunset Boulevard, in Holmby Hills. Just beyond Holmby Hills is Beverly Hills. [edit] RankingsUS News ranks UCLA 15th among top law schools in the US, and as the third most diverse of the five law schools in the UC system.[18][19] It has the largest student body in the system after Hastings, and the second smallest student/faculty ratio after Berkeley.[20] While it is the second most expensive law school in the UC system, it is only slightly less expensive than Berkeley.[21] While it grants the most in financial aid, students still tend to graduate with more debt on average than at the other UC law schools.[22][23] According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, UCLA ranks 10th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty.[24] In terms of overall student numerical quality, UCLA ranks 15th in the nation.[25] [edit] Institutes and programs[edit] International Human Rights Law ProgramThe International Human Rights Law Program, founded in 2008, is an organization for human rights education, scholarship, advocacy, and policy-oriented research.[26] It includes the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Justice Clinic,[27] which assists in the apprehension and prosecution of alleged war criminals in Bosnia, initially focussing on the relations between Ratko Mladic, formerly head of the Bosnian Serb Army, and others accused of involvement in the Srebrenica massacre.[28] Haris Silajdžić, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will work closely with the program.[29] The faculty director is Richard Harold Steinberg and the executive directory is David Kaye. 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