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 campu ...

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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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Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, and is the third-oldest law school in

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, after Harvard and

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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 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, 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

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. Another prominent female alumna at the time,

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, would go on to help found the

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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

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. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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, 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, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, D.O. ( – ) was an American Neurosurgery, neurosurgeon. He was exonerated in 1966, having been convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard. The case was con ...

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

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* Fred H. Brown, LLB 1884,

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* Edward W. Brooke, LLB 1948, LLM 1949,

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

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; 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 Paul Andrew Dever (January 15, 1903April 11, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts and was its youngest-ever Attorney General. Among his notable accomplishments ...

, LLB 1926,

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, 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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, JD 1984, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of

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, Inc. * Richard Graber, 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, 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

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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 *

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, 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,

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* Gary F. Locke, JD 1975, US ambassador to

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

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, 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. Sen ...

, 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, LLB 1949, director of the

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, JD 1999, founder of the popular blog,

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, JD 1985, first woman to hold the office of treasurer and receiver general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts * Irving H. Picard, JD 1966, trustee in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC *

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, JD 1979, LLM 1981, president of National Amusements and vice-chair of

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and

* 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,

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, 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 *

Niki Tsongas Nicola Dickson "Niki" Sauvage Tsongas (; born April 26, 1946) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 2007 to 2019. She held the seat formerly held by her husband, the late Paul Tsongas, for the dis ...

, JD 1988, congresswoman for

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

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, JD 1972,

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, 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 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 ...

* James Bessen * James E. Fleming * Tamar Frankel * Wendy Gordon * Keith Hylton * Gary Lawson * 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 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 ...

Christopher T. Robertson Christopher Tarver Robertson is a specialist in health law working at the intersection of law, philosophy and science. His research explores how the law affects decision making in domains of scientific uncertainty and misaligned incentives, which ...

* Jay Wexler * David H. Webber * William G. Young

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 *

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 * Boyd B. Jones * Rikki Klieman * David A. Lowy * Frank Parsons * Arthur Holbrook Wellman * Henry A. Wyman

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Boston University School of Law
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