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The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law) was founded in 1895. It became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900. Its primary home facility is the Barco Law Building. The school offers four degrees: Master of Studies in Law,
Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
, Master of Laws for international students, and the Doctor of Juridical Science. The school offers several international legal programs, operates a variety of clinics, and publishes several law journals. According to University of Pittsburgh School of Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 91.4% of graduates were employed ten months after graduation with 68% attaining positions where bar admission is required.


History

The law department was founded in 1843 and is one of 17 schools constituting the University of Pittsburgh. The first four law degrees were conferred in 1847. Classes were held in a stone building at Third Street until the building was destroyed in the fire of 1845 and were then held in the university's building on Duquesne Way until that building was burned in 1849. Classes were continued after the second fire in the basement of the Third Presbyterian Church until the universities first law professor,
Walter H. Lowrie Walter Hoge Lowrie (March 31, 1807 – November 14, 1876) was a Pennsylvania jurist. He was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, son of Matthew B. Lowrie, and nephew of Senator Walter Lowrie. After serving in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire ...
, was elected to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1851 and forced him to abandon his teaching at the school. This, along with the fires that destroyed many of the university's facilities and resources, disrupted the development of the School of Law. Although various attempts were made to reestablish law instruction beginning in 1862, a permanent law school was not established until 1895. The university at that time was named the Western University of Pennsylvania, but despite this, the law school was originally named the Pittsburgh Law School, a name it held until 1918. The Pittsburgh Law School became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900. The first classes in the permanently established school were conducted in the orphans' court rooms in the old Allegheny County courthouse. In 1897, the school moved into the old university building at Ross and Diamond streets that had been sold to the county in 1882. The school moved again in 1919-20 to the tenth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. In 1936 the School of Law moved in its entirety to the 14-16 floors of the Cathedral of Learning on the main campus of the university located in the
Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...
neighborhood of Pittsburgh. During the 1950s and 1960s, the School of Law's Health Law Center was an early pioneer in the field now known as computer-assisted legal research (CALR). Attorney and researcher John Horty was astounded by the extent to which the laws governing hospital administration varied from one state to the next across the United States, and began building a computer database to help him keep track of it all. News of Horty's pioneering work at Pitt inspired the Ohio State Bar Association (just across the state line in nearby Ohio) to create its own separate CALR system, the ancestor of the database system known today as LexisNexis. Available through IEEE Xplore. The School of Law moved into their own dedicated facility, the Barco Law Building, upon its opening on the university's main campus in 1976. In 2007, one ranking put Pitt's Law School faculty as 21st in the nation based on scholarly impac

Pitt Law is currently ranked tied for 78th out of 199 in ''U.S. News & World Report''s rankings of America's top law schools and in 2009 was listed among the "Best Law Schools" by ''The Princeton Review''. Pitt Law is also one of 80 law schools with membership in the Order of the Coif.


Facilities

* Barco Law Building - Pitt Law School is housed in the six-story Barco Law Building on Forbes Avenue, located on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh. * Barco Law Library - The Law Library is housed on the third, fourth, and fifth floors of the Barco Law Building. The library was renovated in 200

and the current collection numbers some 450,000 volumes and volume equivalents and has a seating capacity, in both the individual carrels and in private reading areas, of over 400. In addition, located within several blocks of the Law Building are Hillman Library (University of Pittsburgh), Hillman Library,
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the public library system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its main branch is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and it has 19 branch locations throughout the city. Like hundreds of other Carn ...
, and several special libraries of the University, including the business, medical, and public and international affairs libraries. * Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom - Located on the ground floor, the
moot courtroom Moot court is a co-curricular activity at many law schools. Participants take part in simulated court or arbitration proceedings, usually involving drafting memorials or memoranda and participating in oral argument. In most countries, the phrase " ...
, named for the late Benjamin H. Teplitz, includes a seven-seat judges' bench, jury and press boxes, counselors' tables, judges' chambers, and a jury room. It is used primarily by trial tactics classes and by the growing number of moot court programs. It is equipped to handle special sessions of the Commonwealth and Federal Appellate Courts and hearings before various administrative tribunals. * Other design features of the Law Building include a pedestrian bridge connecting the School of Law with Litchfield Towers dormitories, Lawrence Hall, and
Wesley W. Posvar Hall Wesley W. Posvar Hall (WWPH), formerly known as Forbes Quadrangle, is a landmark building on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. At it is the largest academic-use building on campus, providing ...
.


Deans of the Law School

* John Douglass Shafer, 1895–1920 * Alexander Marshall Thompson, 1920–1940 * Eugene Allen Gilmore, 1940–1942 * Judson Adams Crane, 1942–1949 * Charles Bernard Nutting, 1949–1951 * Judson Adams Crane (Acting Dean), 1951–1952 * Brainerd Currie, 1952–1953 *
Arthur Larson Lewis Arthur Larson (July 4, 1910 – March 27, 1993) was an American lawyer, law professor, United States Under Secretary of Labor from 1954 to 1956, director of the United States Information Agency from 1956 to 1957, and executive assistant for ...
(on leave of absence 1954–56), 1953–1956 * Charles Wilson Taintor II (Acting Dean), 1954–1957 * Thomas McIntyre Cooley II, 1957–1965 * William Edward Sell, Chairman, Administrative Committee, 1965–1966; Dean, 1966–1977 *
John E. Murray Jr. John Edward Murray Jr. (December 20, 1932 – February 11, 2015) was a chancellor and a professor of law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and th ...
, 1977–1984 * Richard J. Pierce Jr., 1984–1985 *
Mark A. Nordenberg Mark A. Nordenberg (born July 12, 1948) is the chancellor emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh and chair of the university's Institute of Politics. A professor of law and university administrator, Nordenberg served as the seventeenth Chancell ...
, 1985–1993 (University Chancellor, 1995–2014) * Richard H. Seeburger (Interim Dean), 1993–1994 *
Peter M. Shane Peter Milo Shane (born 1952) is a law professor and writer. His best-known scholarly work focuses mainly on two subjects. The first is separation of powers law, especially law and the presidency. His work often explores what he calls an instituti ...
, 1994–1998 * David J. Herring, 1998–2005 * Mary A. Crossley, 2005–2012 * William M. Carter Jr., 2012–2018 * Amy J. Wildermuth, 2018–Present


Academics

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law offers four degrees. The J.D. (Juris Doctor) is the required degree to practice law in most of the United States, thus J.D. students make up most of the school's student body.


Academic programs

* The John P. Gismondi Civil Litigation Certificate Program * Environmental Law, Science and Policy * Health Law * Intellectual Property and Technology Law * International and Comparative Law * Disability Studies * Law and Entrepreneurship * Washington, D.C. Externship Program


Pitt Law Center for International Legal Education

Pitt Law offers area studies in the following international legal systems: * Asian Studies * Global Studies * Latin American Studies * Russia and Eastern European Studies * Western European Studies These area studies serve to supplement the study of International Law, in addition to providing Pitt Law students with the opportunity to pursue careers abroad.


Experiential skills programs


Clinics

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law has several clinical programs, which allow law students to gain practical experience as lawyers before graduating from law school. The following clinics are currently offered by the School of Law: * Tax Clinic * Securities Arbitration Clinic * Family Law Clinic * Environmental Law Clinic * Health Law Clinic * Elder Law Clinic * Immigration Law Clinic


Lawyering Skills Competitions

The law school also hosts and facilitates multiple moot court and lawyering skills competitions for law students. The law school's Moot Court Board administers three intramural competitions each year: the Appellate Moot Court Competition, the Murray S. Love Trial Moot Court Competition, and the Negotiations Competition. The school also assembles teams to compete at multiple interscholastic and international moot court competitions covering specialized areas such as Energy Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, International Arbitration and International Law, Workers' Compensation Law, Client Counseling, and Intellectual Property. The school's Mock Trial Program recruits adjunct coaches from the local practicing bar to assemble law student teams to participate in mock trial competitions throughout the country. In 2014-2015, more than 20% of second- and third-year students participated in an interscholastic competition.


Practicums

The law school has several practicum courses, which aim to combine traditional coursework and instruction with experiential learning under supervising attorneys in various specific interest areas: *Criminal Prosecution Practicum *Education Law Practicum *Health Law Practicum: Alternative Dispute Resolution *Law, Entertainment, and Social Enterprise Practicum *Lawyering Process III Practicum *Pennsylvania Practice Practicum *Medicare and Medicaid Practicum *Social Security Disability Practicum *Unemployment Compensation Practicum *Veterans Practicum *Workers' Compensation Practicum


Semester in D.C. Program

The law school's Semester in D.C. Program allows spring semester second- and third-year students to pursue a full-time externship for an employer in Washington, D.C. The Semester in D.C. combines full-time work for academic credit with a small seminar class held at the law school's dedicated Washington Center to fulfill a full semester credit load. Students can also pursue a Public Policy Concentration, taking additional courses to learn to apply legal advocacy, research, and writing skills in the policy context.


Publications


Journals

Pitt Law is home to two law reviews and several student-edited legal journals, including the Pittsburgh Law Review, which is one of the 40 most-cited law reviews in the country, according to Chicago-Kent Law Review's 1996 Faculty Scholarship Surve

The following law reviews are all publications of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: *
University of Pittsburgh Law Review The ''University of Pittsburgh Law Review'' is a journal of legal scholarship edited by an independent student group at University of Pittsburgh School of Law and published by the D-Scribe Digital Publishing program at the University Library Sys ...
*
Journal of Law and Commerce The ''Journal of Law and Commerce'' is a law review published by an independent student group at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, focusing on domestic and international commercial and business law. The journal is published biannually, wi ...
The following journals are all publications of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: *
Pittsburgh Tax Review The ''Pittsburgh Tax Review'' is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at University of Pittsburgh School of Law The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law) was founded in 1895. It became a charter ...
* Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy * Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law


JURIST

JURIST A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
is the world's only law school-based comprehensive legal news and research service. Its professionally trained staff of law faculty and law students report and research the latest legal developments in real time for members of the legal community and the public at large. JURIST covers legal news stories based on their substantive importance rather than on their mass-market or commercial appeal.


Applicant Information


Admissions

Admissions to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are conducted on a rolling basis, with an acceptance rate of slightly less than 30%. For the entering class of 2019, the median LSAT score was 158, and the median GPA was 3.49. There were 120 entering students. Admissions Statistics for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law


Costs and Financial Aid

The estimated cost of attendance (includes tuition, fees, books, and living expenses) at Pitt Law for the 2014-15 academic year is $50,008 for a Pennsylvania resident and $57,492 for a non-resident. The average law school debt for the graduating Class of 2012 was $94,879, well below the national average. Pitt Law was one of only 53 law schools out of over 200 nationally (and one of only three in Pennsylvania) to be ranked as a 2014 Best Value by The National Jurist. The survey took into account multiple factors, with success in job placement weighted most heavily at 35%, followed by tuition (25%), average indebtedness (15%), bar passage rates (15%), and cost of living (10%).


Employment


Rankings and Honors

* Pitt Law is ranked tied for 78th by '' U.S. News & World Report''.


Notable alumni

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Ruggero J. Aldisert Ruggero John Aldisert (November 10, 1919 – December 28, 2014) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Early life and education Born November 10, 1919, in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, to Italia ...
- (1947) - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1968-1986 *
W. Thomas Andrews W. Thomas Andrews (November 8, 1941 - September 14, 2009) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania Gene ...
- (1966) - Pennsylvania State Senator * Pavel Astakhov - (2002) - Children's Ombudsman of Russia (2009–present) *
George Barco George J. Barco (11 April 1907 – 15 November 1989) was an American lawyer and cable television (CATV) executive who played a key role in development of the cable industry. Early years George Barco was born on 11 April 1907, the son of Italian ...
- (1934) - Cable television executive who played a key role in development of that industry *
Yolanda Barco Yolanda G. Barco (March 13, 1926 – May 27, 2000) was an American lawyer and cable television (CATV) executive who played a key role in development of the cable industry. Early years Yolanda Barco was born on March 13, 1926 in Meadville, Pen ...
- (1949) - Cable television executive * Derrick Bell - (1957) - First tenured black professor at
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Homer S. Brown Homer Sylvester Brown (September 23, 1896 – May 22, 1977) was an American judge, civil rights leader, and elected state representative in Pennsylvania. In a career of firsts, he was the first African American in a variety of leadership roles, inc ...
- (1923) - Judge, civil and political rights activist, elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1934–1950) * Mary Beth Buchanan - (1987) - United States Attorney for Western Pennsylvania (2001–2009) *
Linda Drane Burdick Linda Drane Burdick (born October 12, 1964) was the Chief Assistant State Attorney at the Orange and Osceola County State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida. She was the lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony case. Backgrou ...
- (1989) - Chief Assistant State Attorney at the Orange and Osceola County State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida. She was the lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony case. *
Ralph J. Cappy Ralph J. Cappy (August 25, 1943 – May 1, 2009) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1998 and chief justice of the Court from 2003 to 2008. Prior to joining the state Supreme Court, Cappy was named to the Allegheny Co ...
- (1968) - Justice (1990–2008) and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–2008) *
Earl Chudoff Earl Chudoff (November 15, 1907 – May 17, 1993) was an American lawyer and jurist who served five terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1958. Early life and career Earl Chudoff was b ...
- (1932) -
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(1949–1958) *
Robert J. Cindrich Robert James Cindrich (born September 22, 1943) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for ...
(1968) – former U.S. attorney and US District judge *
Harry W. Colmery Harry W. Colmery (December 11, 1890 – August 23, 1979) was an American attorney who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 1936 to 1937. Considered the principal architect of the G.I. Bill, he was the first past nationa ...
(1916) – Author of G.I. Bill. * William Corbett (1927) - 2nd
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(1956) *
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- (1911) -
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(1951–1953) *
Q. Todd Dickinson Q. Todd Dickinson (December 21, 1952 – May 3, 2020) was an Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He was an executive director of the American Intellectual Pr ...
- (1977) - former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (1999–2001); current Executive Director of the
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(AIPLA) *
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(1983) – vice chair, President, CEO of
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*
James H. Duff James Henderson Duff (January 21, 1883 – December 20, 1969) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1957. Previously he had served as the 34t ...
- (1907) -
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(1947–1951),
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(1951–1957) *
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- (1908) - President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate (1941–1944) *
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- (1913) -
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(1927–1933) *
Lucy Fato Luciana "Lucy" Fato (born 1966) is an American corporate attorney. She has been general counsel at AIG since October 2017. Prior to joining AIG, her positions included nine years as deputy general counsel at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and a year ...
- (1991) - Corporate attorney, general counsel of AIG (2017–present) * Anne Feeney - (1978) - folk musician, political activist and attorneyClay Rise
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- (1983) -
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(2003–2009) * Melissa Hart - (1987) -
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(2001–2007) * Orrin Hatch - (1962) -
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and
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(1977–2019) *
David J. Hickton David J. Hickton (born August 14, 1955) is the director and founder of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. Prior to that, he was the 57th U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He resigned ...
- (1981) – staff director and senior counsel to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, director and founder of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security * Mark R. Hornak - (1981) - Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (2011–present) *
K. Leroy Irvis Kirkland Leroy Irvis (December 27, 1919 – March 16, 2006) was a teacher, activist and politician based in Pennsylvania; he was the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Re ...
- (1953) - First African American to serve as a speaker of the house (Pennsylvania) in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction. *
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- (1970) - Retired notable private securities class action attorney *
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, who successfully sued the
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on behalf of blackballed player Connie Hawkins. * Susan Richard Nelson - (1978) - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota * Maryellen Noreika - (1993) - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware *
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(2003–2012) * Vjosa Osmani (LLM 2005, SJD 2015) - 5th President of Kosovo (2021–present) *
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- (1903) -
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(1922–1935) * Edgar Snyder - (1966) - Prominent personal injury attorney, Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" *
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- (1916) - Judge, Allegheny County Court and
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; first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania. *
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(1908) - Medal of Honor Recipient, College Football Hall of Fame player and coach, Pennsylvania State Senator (1913–16) *
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- (1957) -
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(1979–1987),
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(1988–1991) *
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- (1982) - Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2007–present) *
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- (1962) - American forensic pathologist *
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- (1950) - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1973-1988) * Mary Jo White - (1967) - Pennsylvania State Senator * James A. Wright - (1927) -
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(1941–1945) *
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- (1965) - Attorney,
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; son of murdered labor leader
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