The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law) was founded in 1895. It became a charter member of the

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in 1900. Its primary home facility is the

Barco Law Building Barco Law Building is an academic building housing the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The $8.5 million ($ million today) six-story building was opene ...

. The school offers four degrees:

Master of Studies in Law A Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), also Master of Science of Law or Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.) or Juris Master (J.M.) or Masters of Jurisprudence (M.J.) or Master in Law (M.L.), is a master's degree offered by some law schools to students ...

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 ...

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for international students, and the

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. 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 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. 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, was elected to the

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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

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

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on the main campus of the university located in the

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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 Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily ...

(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

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(just across the state line in nearby

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) to create its own separate CALR system, the ancestor of the database system known today as

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. Available through

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. The School of Law moved into their own dedicated facility, the

, 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

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Facilities

- Pitt Law School is housed in the six-story Barco Law Building on Forbes Avenue, located on the main campus of the

. * 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,

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, 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, 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

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Deans of the Law School

* John Douglass Shafer, 1895–1920 * Alexander Marshall Thompson, 1920–1940 *

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, 1940–1942 * Judson Adams Crane, 1942–1949 * Charles Bernard Nutting, 1949–1951 * Judson Adams Crane (Acting Dean), 1951–1952 *

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, 1952–1953 *

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(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 W. Edward Sell (1923 – August 15, 2004) was the Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1966 through 1977. Education He graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in 1945. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1947. Te ...

, Chairman, Administrative Committee, 1965–1966; Dean, 1966–1977 * John E. Murray Jr., 1977–1984 * Richard J. Pierce Jr., 1984–1985 * Mark A. Nordenberg, 1985–1993 (University Chancellor, 1995–2014) * Richard H. Seeburger (Interim Dean), 1993–1994 * Peter M. Shane, 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

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, 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

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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: *

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* Journal of Law and Commerce The following journals are all publications of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: * Pittsburgh Tax Review * Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy *

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JURIST

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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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and Director of the

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and

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(1979–1987),

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(2007–present) *

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- (1967) -

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