The University of Illinois College of Law (Illinois Law or UIUC Law) is the

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of the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

, a

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. It was established in 1897 and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees.

History

The College of Law was founded in 1897 and is a

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of the

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. The law

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known as the

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was founded at the University of Illinois College of Law in 1902. University of Illinois College of Law is on the south end of the main University of Illinois campus in Champaign, near

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and the

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. The University of Illinois College of Law has the 14th largest

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in the United States of America, and the college has several notable

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, the

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, and

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, including:

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, name

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at the law firm

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from 2000 to 2008, and

Philip McConnaughay Philip J. McConnaughay (born January 5, 1953, in Geneva, Illinois), is the current dean and professor of law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. Previously, he was the dean and The Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at The Pennsylvan ...

, current

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and former dean of

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Investigation into manipulation of admissions data

On September 11, 2011, ''The News-Gazette'' reported that the University of Illinois College of Law posted inaccurate information on its website about the

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scores and GPAs of its incoming first-year law students. The school removed the inaccurate information and placed an assistant dean on

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. On September 19, 2011, the University of Illinois College of Law posted the corrected information on its website. The actual LSAT and GPA

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for the class of 2014 were 163 and 3.70, respectively. Two months later, the law school announced that a report commissioned from

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and

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had found admission data for six of the seven previous years to have been manipulated by the assistant

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Paul Pless, and that Pless had acted alone and would no longer work for the College.

Academics

The College of Law offers the

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(J.D.), the

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in law, as well as the

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(LL.M) and

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(J.S.D.),

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s in law. A program that had been started with the American Bar Association in 2009 to permit certain UIUC undergraduates to enter without an LSAT was shut down in 2012 as part of the penalty for the college's falsification of admission data. The flagship

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is the ''

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''; the law school also publishes two specialized law journals, the ''Elder Law Journal'' and the ''Journal of Law, Technology & Policy'', which in 2007, ExpressO then ranked as the #4 Science & Technology law journal. The College is also the home institution for the ''

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'', and for ''Law and Philosophy''. The Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Library is the college's

. It is among the largest academic law libraries in the United States.

Employment

According to the College of Law's official 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 78.92% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment 10 months after graduation. This was then the 19th highest out of all

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under-employment score is 10.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job 10 months after graduation.

Rankings

In 1957, the ''

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'' released the first modern rankings of law schools, and included Illinois among the top 10 law schools in America. In its annual 2011 ranking of "Go-To Law Schools," ''

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'' then ranked the University of Illinois College of Law 16th in the number of alumni associates promoted to partner. In the 2010 '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranking of American law schools, the college was ranked 21st in the country and in the 2011 ranking, it was ranked 23rd in the country. In the 2012 ranking, the college was originally ranked 23rd in the country. However, in the wake of the grades and LSAT

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scandal, that ranking fell from #23 to #35 in 2012, and dropped to 47th in 2013. In the 2014 rankings, the college rose to 40th. In 2015, it dropped one spot to 41st. In 2018, the ranking rose to 37th, and rose again to 31st in the 2020 rankings. The college's 31st place tie with a few other law schools, including

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and

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. In 2012, the ''

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'' named the University of Illinois College of Law in its list of the 20 most innovative law schools, based on more than 40 submissions. In 2020, the popular website '' Above the Law'' ranked the college #19 in the nation. In the 2022 ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranking, the college was ranked 29th in the country tied with a few other law schools.

Alumni

Academia

William Bennett Bizzell William Bennett Bizzell (October 14, 1876 – May 13, 1944) was the president of three American higher education institutions. He was the fifth president of the University of Oklahoma, the president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas ( ...

1912 – fifth president of the

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and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now

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) * Ralph L. Brill – professor of law at

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and

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innovator * John E. Cribbet 1947 – accomplished

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, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, and

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of the University of Illinois *

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2001 – activist, former president of Minneapolis

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and former professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law * Philip J. McConnaughay 1978 – current dean of

and former dean of

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1942 – labor lawyer and law professor at the

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and

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, subject of ''

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'' *

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– eighteenth president of

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Judges

Federal

* Wayne Andersen 1970 –

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on the

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial-level court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois. Appeals from the Northern District of Illinois ar ...

* Harold Baker 1956 – United States federal judge on the

United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (in case citations, C.D. Ill.) serves the residents of forty-six counties, which are divided into four divisions. The counties are: Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, C ...

* Charles Guy Briggle 1904 – United States federal judge on the

United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (in case citations, S.D. Ill.) is a federal district court covering approximately the southern third of the state of Illinois. Appeals from the Southern District of Illinois ...

* Colin S. Bruce 1989 – United States federal judge on the

* Owen McIntosh Burns 1929 – United States federal judge on the

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* James L. Foreman 1952 – United States federal judge on the

* James F. Holderman 1971 – United States federal judge on the

George Evan Howell George Evan Howell (September 21, 1905 – January 18, 1980) was a United States representative from Illinois and Judge of the United States Court of Claims. Education and career Born in Marion, Illinois, Howell attended the public schools ...

1930 – United States federal judge on the

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* William F. Jung 1983 – United States federal judge on the

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* Frederick J. Kapala 1976 – United States federal judge on the

* Alfred Younges Kirkland, Sr. 1943 – United States federal judge on the

* David Laro 1967 – senior judge on the

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* Walter C. Lindley 1910 – United States federal judge on the

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* George Michael Marovich 1954 – United States federal judge on the

Prentice Henry Marshall Prentice Henry Marshall (August 7, 1926 – May 24, 2004) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Early life and education Born in Oak Park, Il ...

1967 – United States federal judge on the

* Frederick Olen Mercer 1924 – United States federal judge on the

* William A. Moorman 1970 – judge on the

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Philip Godfrey Reinhard Philip Godfrey Reinhard (born January 12, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Education and career Born in LaSalle, Illinois, Reinhard received a Bachelor of ...

1964 – United States federal judge on the

* Stanley Julian Roszkowski 1954 – United States federal judge on the

Fred Louis Wham Fred Louis Wham (June 15, 1884 – February 2, 1967) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Education and career Born in Marion County, Illinois, Wham received a Bachelor of ...

1909 – United States federal judge on the

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* Harlington Wood, Jr. 1948 – United States federal judge on the

State

* Thomas R. Chiola 1977 – judge of the

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, first

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elected official in Illinois * Arno H. Denecke 1939 – Chief Justice

Oregon Supreme Court The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States.Byron O. House 1926 – Chief Justice

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* Lloyd A. Karmeier 1964 – Chief Justice

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1924 – Chief Justice

* Howard C. Ryan – Chief Justice

Roy Solfisburg Roy John Solfisburg Jr. (September 9, 1912 – April 19, 1991) was the Supreme Court of Illinois, Chief Justice of Illinois for the 1962–63 term and again from 1967 to 1969. Solfisburg was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1960, the fir ...

1940 (LL.B) – Chief Justice

* Robert C. Underwood 1939 – Chief Justice

Other

* Antonio Herman de Vasconcellos e Benjamin (

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) –

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of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil * R. Grant Hammond (

) –

of the

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Politics

Al Salvi Albert J. Salvi (born April 25, 1960) is an American attorney, politician, and former radio talk show host. Salvi served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and was a Republican nominee for the United States Senate and Illinois S ...

1985 – Illinois House,

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candidate,

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of Salvi & Maher, LLC *

John Bayard Anderson John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981. A member o ...

1946 –

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and

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William W. Arnold William Wright Arnold (October 14, 1877 – November 23, 1957) was an American politician and jurist, serving as a U.S. representative from Illinois and a judge of the United States Tax Court. Life and career Born in Oblong, Illinois, Arnold at ...

1901 –

Jason Barickman Jason Barickman (born May 1, 1975), is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 53rd district since January 2013. He previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 105th district from 2011 to 2013 ...

2006 –

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* Terry Lee Bruce 1969 – U.S. Congressman *

John Porter East John Porter East (May 5, 1931 – June 29, 1986) was a Republican U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1981 until his suicide in 1986. A paraplegic since 1955 because of polio, East was a professor of political science at East C ...

1959 –

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Tom Fink Thomas A. Fink (August 26, 1928 – June 4, 2021) was an American Republican politician from Alaska. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1987 to 1994 and Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975. He was also a member of the F ...

1952 – Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives;

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* Otis Ferguson Glenn 1910 –

* William J. Graham 1893 – U.S. Congressman * William Perry Holaday 1905 – U.S. Congressman *

1930 – U.S. Congressman *

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1993 – U.S. Congressman * Tim Johnson 1972 – U.S. Congressman *

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–

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; Member of the

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Samuel H. Shapiro Samuel Harvey Shapiro (born Israel Shapiro; April 25, 1907 – March 16, 1987) was the 34th governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Life and career Born in 1907 in the Governorate of Eston ...

–

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* James C. Soper 1931 - Illinois State Senate *

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1935 – U.S. Congressman *

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1994 –

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and the Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs on the

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presidential transition team * Sheadrick Turner - Illinois House of Representatives *

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1937 – U.S. Congressman *

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1947 – U.S. Congressman

Other

* Leonard V. Finder –

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and

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(Law) – journalist and author *

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1927 – First United States Air Force Judge Advocate General * Albert E. Jenner, Jr. 1930 (

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) – one of the name partners at the law firm of

* Thomas R. Lamont 1972 –

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* Paul M. Lisnek 1983 – author, television and radio

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host and interviewer *

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–

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and producer of

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* Jerome W. Van Gorkom 1941 –

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, U.S.

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1982–83, best known as the named party in the landmark corporate law case of ''

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'', 488 A.2d 858 ( Del. 1985). * Josh Whitman, 2008 –

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at the

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, former

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player

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Illinois Law, University of Law schools in Illinois Educational institutions established in 1897 1897 establishments in Illinois

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