Boston University School of Law (Boston Law or BU Law) is the

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Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original cam ...

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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

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, and is the third-oldest law school in

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. The school is an original charter member of the

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, 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

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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, Lelia J. Robinson 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, Nathan Abbott, would later become the founding dean of Stanford Law School. Another prominent female alumna at the time,

Alice Stone Blackwell Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15, 1950) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, radical socialist, and human rights advocate. Early life and education Blackwell was born in East Orange, New Jersey to Henry Browne ...

, would go on to help found the League of Women Voters and edit the ''

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''. Takeo Kikuchi (1877), the school's first Japanese graduate, was co-founder and president of Tokyo's English Law School which grew into Chuo University. Clara Burrill Bruce (1926) was the first black woman elected editor-in-chief of a

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(the ''Boston University Law Review''). BU Law's first buildings were 36 Bromfield Street, 18–20

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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

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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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''. US Supreme Court Justice

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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

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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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, a health law specialist and researcher at BU Law, serves as executive director of the initiative, which is named CARB-X.

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

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(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

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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

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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 ''

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'' 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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'' law school rankings for large law firm employment.

Notable people

Alumni

Frederic W. Allen Frederic Walter Allen (May 31, 1926 – April 9, 2016) was an American lawyer and judge who served as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Biography Frederic Walter Allen was born in Burlington, Vermont on May 31, 1926. He graduated from ...

, LLB 1951, chief justice of the

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(1984-1997) * Lincoln C. Almond, JD 1961,

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* George W. Anderson, LLB 1890, judge of the

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. * Consuelo Northrup Bailey, LLB 1925, first woman elected as

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in the United States *

F. Lee Bailey Francis Lee Bailey Jr. (June 10, 1933 – June 3, 2021) was an American criminal defense attorney. Bailey's name first came to nationwide attention for his involvement in the second murder trial of Sam Sheppard, a surgeon accused of murdering ...

, LLB 1960, criminal defense lawyer; represented

Sam Sheppard Samuel Holmes Sheppard, D.O. ( – ) was an American neurosurgeon. He was exonerated in 1966, having been convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard. The case was controversial from the beginning, with extensive ...

and O. J. Simpson, among others * Albert Brown, LLB 1904,

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Fred H. Brown Fred Herbert Brown (April 12, 1879February 3, 1955) was an American lawyer, baseball player, and politician from New Hampshire. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown was the 59th governor of New Hampshire and a United States Senator. Brown att ...

, LLB 1884,

, U.S. congressman * Edward W. Brooke, LLB 1948, LLM 1949,

attorney general of Massachusetts The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The officeholder is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The officeholder al ...

; first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote; one of only five African Americans to serve in the U.S. Senate; awarded the

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. *

William M. Butler William Morgan Butler (January 29, 1861March 29, 1937) was a lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator. Biography Butler was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he attended the public school and stud ...

, LLB 1884,

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(MA) * Norman S. Case, LLB 1912,

* Martha M. Coakley, JD 1979, Massachusetts attorney general (2007–2015), district attorney for

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(1999-2007) * William S. Cohen, LLB 1965, U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. senator from

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* Paul A. Dever, LLB 1926,

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Joshua Eric Dodge Joshua Eric Dodge (October 25, 1854May 2, 1921) was an American lawyer politician, and judge from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for 12 years (1898–1910). Earlier, he served as a United States ...

, 1877,

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* Samuel Felker, JD,

Michael F. Flaherty Michael F. Flaherty (born May 4, 1969) is an at-large member of the Boston City Council. Flaherty is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected Boston City Council Vice President in 2001 and Boston City Council President from ...

, JD 1994, president of the

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* Michael D. Fricklas, JD 1984, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Viacom, Inc. *

Richard Graber Richard William Graber (born 1956) is an American lawyer from Wisconsin and Republican politician who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009. Graber spent 20 years as a partner at the law firm of Reinhart Bo ...

, JD 1981, former United States ambassador to the

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* Judd A. Gregg, JD 1972, LLM 1975, U.S. senator,

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Melanie B. Jacobs Melanie B. Jacobs is an American legal scholar and administrator. She served as the interim dean of Michigan State University College of Law and was appointed 27th dean of the University of Louisville School of Law. Biography Jacobs received h ...

, JD 1994, dean of the

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* Jeff Jacoby, JD 1983, ''

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'' opinion/editorial columnist * Dr. Barbara C. Jordan, LLB 1959, first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress from a southern state, awarded the

in 1994, first woman to deliver a

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at the

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in 1976 *

David E. Kelley David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney, known as the creator of '' Doogie Howser, M.D.'', '' Picket Fences'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''The Practice'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''Boston Publi ...

, JD 1983, Emmy winning television producer *

Robert Khuzami Robert S. Khuzami (; born August 2, 1956) was the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York until March 22, 2019. He previously was a United States federal prosecutor and Assistant United ...

, JD 1983, director of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission * Gary F. Locke, JD 1975, US ambassador to

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, and the first Asian-American governor in the mainland U.S. *

Maria Lopez Maria Lopez (born September 12, 1953) is a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist on the syndicated court show, ''Judge Maria Lopez''. Judge Lopez made legal history as the first Latina appointed to the bench in Massachusetts ...

, JD 1978, first Hispanic appointed a judge in the Massachusetts, current television jurist on the U.S. syndicated television show ''

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'' *

Sandra Lynch Sandra Lea Lynch (born July 31, 1946) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the ...

, JD 1971, chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit * Frederick William Mansfield, LLB 1902, 46th

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, and 38th

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* Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston, LLB 1918 - co-creator of the comic book character

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J. Howard McGrath James Howard McGrath (November 28, 1903September 2, 1966) was an American politician and attorney from Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming governor, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Sena ...

, LLB 1929, sixtieth

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, 1949-52; U.S. senator, 1940–45

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* Thomas McIntyre, LLB 1940, U.S. senator (NH) *

F. Bradford Morse Frank Bradford Morse (August 7, 1921 – December 18, 1994) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He had a notable career in the United States Congress and the United Nations. In Congress, he served in ...

, LLB 1949, director of the

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Markos Moulitsas Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (; born September 11, 1971), often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos" ( ), is an American blogger who is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party p ...

, JD 1999, founder of the popular blog,

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Shannon O'Brien Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien (born April 30, 1959) is an American politician and attorney who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 through 1993, in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 1995, and was the Massa ...

, JD 1985, first woman to hold the office of

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* Irving H. Picard, JD 1966, trustee in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC *

Shari Redstone Shari Ellin Redstone (born April 14, 1954) is an American media executive with a background in numerous aspects of the entertainment industry and related ventures. She currently serves as the non-executive chairwoman of Paramount Global (formerly ...

, JD 1979, LLM 1981, president of

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and vice-chair of

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and Viacom * Chase T. Rogers, JD 1983, chief justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Greg Griffin
LLM 1984, Judge
Alabama 15th Judicial Circuit Court
First African American General Counsel of an Alabama State Agency * William Russell, LLB 1879,

Sabita Singh Sabita Singh is an American lawyer and Judge of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. On Oct. 25, 2006, the then Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney nominated Singh to be Judge of the Concord District Court. Her nomination was confirmed o ...

, JD 1990, associate justice of the Appeals Court in the

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* Robert T. Stafford, LLB 1938; HON 1959, U.S. senator, father of the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan (Stafford Loan) program, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) and co-sponsor of the Wilderness Protection Act *

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, JD 1988, congresswoman for

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* Robert Upton, LLB 1907, U.S. senator (NH) * David I. Walsh, LLB 1897, U.S. senator,

* Myrth York, JD 1972, Rhode Island state senator, first female chair of the Senate Health, Education and Welfare Committee *

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, LLB 1896, founder of

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, 1929 ''

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'' magazine's Man of the Year, chairman and

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, JD 1985, president and CEO,

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, Inc. * Howard Moore Jr, LLB 1960, general counsel

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(SNCC) and Federation of Southern Cooperatives

Faculty

* George Annas *

James Bessen James Bessen (born 1950) is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004, and was previously a software developer and CEO of a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet a ...

* James E. Fleming * Tamar Frankel * Wendy Gordon *

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 ...

Gary Lawson Gary Raymond Lawson (born 19 October 1965) is a New Zealand international lawn bowler and a record 14 times New Zealand champion. Bowls career World Championships In 1996 he won the lawn bowls fours bronze medal at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls ...

* David Lyons *

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 *

* Christopher T. Robertson * Jay Wexler * David H. Webber *

William G. Young William Glover Young (born September 23, 1940) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Education and career Born in Huntington, New York, Young received an Artium Baccalaur ...

Former faculty

Randy Barnett Randy Evan Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is the director of the Georg ...

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 Danielle Keats Citron is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law. Citron is the author of "Th ...

Archibald Cox Archibald Cox Jr. (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was ...

* 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 B ...

* Boyd B. Jones *

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. Add ...

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 Me ...

* Frank Parsons * Arthur Holbrook Wellman * Henry A. Wyman

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Boston University School of Law
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