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research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the United States and considered an elite American graduate legal institution. Established in 1872, Boston University Law is the second-oldest law school in the state of Massachusetts, after Harvard University, and is the third-oldest law school in New England, after Harvard and Yale University. The school is an original charter member of the American Bar Association, and is the one of the oldest continuously operating law schools in the country. Approximately 630 students are enrolled in the full-time J.D. degree program (approximately 210 per class) and about 350 in the school's five LLM degree programs. Boston University Law was one of the first law schools in the country to admit students to study law regardless of race or gender.

History

The Boston University School of Law was founded in 1872. It was one of the first law schools to admit women and minorities, at a time when most other law schools barred them. In 1881,

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became the first female BU Law graduate. Then, women lawyers were less than half of one percent of the profession. Upon graduation, she successfully lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to permit the admission of women to the state bar, and in 1882, became the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Her classmate,

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, would later become the founding dean of Stanford Law School. Another prominent female alumna at the time, Alice Stone Blackwell, would go on to help found the

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''. Takeo Kikuchi (1877), the school's first Japanese graduate, was co-founder and president of

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which grew into Chuo University. Clara Burrill Bruce (1926) was the first black woman elected editor-in-chief of a law review (the ''Boston University Law Review''). BU Law's first buildings were 36 Bromfield Street, 18–20 Beacon Street and 10 Ashburton Place. The first year of courses commenced in 1872. In 1895, the university's trustees acquired 11 Ashburton Place, which was refurbished and named Isaac Rich Hall in honor of the third founder of Boston University. The dedication speaker was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. whose historic speech ''The Path of the Law'' was delivered in 1897. In 1918, former United States President William Howard Taft lectured on legal ethics at BU Law until his appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court two years later. In 1921, the ''Boston University Law Review'' was founded. Isaac Rich Hall housed BU Law until 1964. In 1964 BU Law occupied the bottom half of the current building, 765 Commonwealth Avenue on the Charles River Campus, colloquially known as the "Tower". BU Law shared the Tower with the School of Education for some years but now occupies the entire building. The School of Law's legal library, the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries, occupies three floors in the Law Complex, spanning both the Law Tower and the Redstone Building. The Libraries also include two floors of closed stacks in the basement of the adjacent

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, BU's main library. The entire BU Law tower underwent a multi-million dollar refurbishment from 2014 to 2018. In 1975, BU Law began publishing the ''

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delivered a notable BU Law lecture outlining an optimistic view of the judiciary and its power to use the United States Constitution to for good. In July 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a new partnership allowing BU Law to serve as headquarters for a $350 million initiative researching and combating antibiotic-resistant diseases, CARB-X. Professor

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Academics

Boston University School of Law offers a rigorous and broad selection of legal classes and seminars with a student to faculty ratio of 12:1. It offers the J.D. and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees as well as numerous dual degrees. With over 200 courses and seminars, BU Law's curriculum is one of the widest selections of any law school in the country. This curriculum covers in 18 different areas of legal study. The student to faculty is 6:1. There are approximately 20 study abroad opportunities at BU Law, which most students partake in their second year, including dual-degree programs with international universities. The campus offers five moot court opportunities, seven academic concentration tracks, and legal writing on six academic journals.

Admissions

BU Law's most recent entering class comes from 41 states and the District of Columbia. These students represent 16 countries and 155 undergraduate institutions.Class Profile , School of Law
/ref> Admission to Boston University School of Law is especially competitive, with a 12% acceptance rate in the 2021-2022 admissions cycle. The 50th LSAT percentile for the 2022 entering class was 170, and the median GPA was a 3.84. The BU Law Admissions office hosts a large alumni network. There are 25,000+ BU Law alumni worldwide.

Rankings

Boston University School of Law currently ranks 17th among American law schools in the 2023 list of best law schools compiled by '' U.S. News & World Report''. It has ranked as high as 11th and as low as 22 in the same ranking. ''U.S. News'' also ranks the school's Health Law program #5 and Intellectual Property Law program #11. BU Law is ranked # 8 for graduates with the best debt-to-salary ratio. It is ranked #29 by the Above The Law Top 50 Law Schools list for post-graduate gainful employment.

Attorney Skills Accelerator Program

The Attorney Skills Accelerator Program (ASAP) at Boston University School of Law offers summer classes, clinics, and externships for qualified J.D. students enrolled in accredited law schools. During Summer 2017, ASAP students will be able to enroll in Contract Drafting and/or Negotiation courses. ASAP students will also have the opportunity to take part in a legal externship, or one of three clinics: * Entrepreneurship & IP Clinic * Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic * Criminal Law: Prosecutor Clinic

Law journals

* ''Boston University Law Review'' * ''

'' * ''Review of Banking & Financial Law'' * ''Boston University International Law Journal'' * ''Journal of Science & Technology Law'' * ''Public Interest Law Journal''

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at BU Law for the 2017–18 academic year was $74,689. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $243,230.

Employment

According to BU Law's official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 87.6% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation. BU Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 11.3%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2019 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job ten months after graduation. For new graduates, the self-reported median starting salary for the class of 2019 was $176,000 in the private sector, and $79,000 in the public sector. This ranked the school #9 on the '' US News'' list "Schools Where Salaries for Grads Most Outweigh the Debt". BU placed 68 graduates from the class of 2019 at NLJ 100 firms, earning it the number 15 slot on the ''

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Notable people

Alumni

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, 1949-52; U.S. senator, 1940–45 Governor of Rhode Island * Thomas McIntyre, LLB 1940, U.S. senator (NH) *

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, LLB 1896, founder of RCA, 1929 '' Time'' magazine's Man of the Year, chairman and

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Faculty

George Annas George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law. Biography Annas h ...

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James E. Fleming James E. Fleming is an American legal scholar who serves as the Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law. He is a scholar in standard constitutional theory and constitutional interpretation, with special attention to ...

Tamar Frankel Tamar Frankel (born July 4, 1925 in Tel Aviv) has been a professor of law at Boston University School of Law since 1968. She is the author of ''The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims'', ''Fiduciary Law'', ''Trus ...

Wendy Gordon Wendy J. Gordon is an American lawyer who is currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University School of Law Boston University School of Law (Boston Law or BU Law) is the law school of Boston University, a priva ...

Keith Hylton Keith N. Hylton is an American law professor, focusing in antitrust law, economics & law, employment law, intellectual property and torts, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University at Boston University. A p ...

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Wendy Mariner Wendy K. Mariner is an American academic who is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights in the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a profes ...

Linda McClain Linda McClain is the Robert B. Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and was previously the Rivkin Radler Distinguished Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School. McClain's work focuses on family law, sex equality, and feminis ...

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David H. Webber David H. Webber is the author of ''The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon'' and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at Boston University School of Law, where he writes about shareholder activism and litigation. Bio ...

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Former faculty

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Janis M. Berry Janis M. Berry is an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2001 to 2016. Early life Berry was born and raised in Everett, Massachusetts. Her father was a dump truck driver and her mother worked ...

* Danielle Citron * Archibald Cox * Edwin W. Hadley *

George Stillman Hillard George Stillman Hillard (September 22, 1808 – January 21, 1879) was an American lawyer and author. Besides developing his Boston legal practice (with Charles Sumner as a partner), he served in the Massachusetts legislature, edited several Bo ...

Boyd B. Jones Boyd B. Jones (October 13, 1856 – June 5, 1930) was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1897 to 1901. He later served on the faculty at the Boston University School of Law and was ...

Rikki Klieman Rikki Klieman (born 1948) is an American criminal defense lawyer and television personality. A native of Chicago, she is a legal analyst for CBS News, having previously worked in criminal defense in Boston and taught at Columbia Law School. Addi ...

David A. Lowy David A. Lowy is an American attorney, academic and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Early life and education Lowy is a native of Peabody, Massachusetts and graduated from Peabody Veterans ...

* Frank Parsons *

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References

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