Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University College of Law
Established	1914
Type	Private
Dean	María Pabón López
Students	850
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.law.loyno.edu

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is a private law school in New Orleans, Louisiana affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans. Loyola's law school opened in 1914 and is now located on the Broadway Campus of the University in the historic Audubon Park District of the city. The College of Law is one of only fourteen Jesuit law schools in the United States. It is also one of only a few law schools in the nation to offer curricula in both Civil Law and Common Law. The school releases several academic journals, most notable of which is the Loyola Law Review.

History

Entrance to the Memorial Library on the main campus, which housed the Law Library from 1915-1986

The College of Law was founded as the School of Law as one of the earliest academic departments of Loyola University New Orleans, chartered in 1912. The first session of the School of Law occurred on October 5, 1914; it originally held classes only in the evening and was located downtown at the College of the Immaculate Conception, now known as Jesuit High School. The School of Law was then moved uptown to the St. Charles Avenue campus of Loyola in 1915. In 1925, the law school opened a day division to better serve the needs of its students, as the coursework was expanded to a four-year program. In 1931, the law school became a member of the American Bar Association and became a member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1934. In 1986, the law school moved from the main campus to its current location on the Broadway Campus, only a few blocks away (located on the west side of the Audubon Park).

The School of Law was renamed the College of Law with the passage of the PATHWAYS Plan on May 19, 2006. In 2007, the law school completed a new four-story 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m²) addition to its current building, which increased the number of classrooms, office space and library space.

Ranking

In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked Loyola University New Orleans College of Law #126 out of 144 in the United States. The College of Law received a score of 29 out of 100. The rankings include 194 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association but due to many schools with tied scores, the lowest ranking is 144 representing schools with a score of 25 our of 100.

Academics

The school is known for its success in national and international moot court competitions. The College houses the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, a legal research and education center; William P. Quigley is the current Director.

The school's Sports and Entertainment Law Society provides students interested in legal careers in music, film, and sports with unique opportunities to meet and learn from experts in these respective areas. The school also runs the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center For Social Justice, where students are admitted to the limited practice of law under a supervising attorney's license for their 3L year. Through the Clinic, students are able to work in a variety of practice areas, including criminal defense, prosecution, family law, immigration, and mediation and arbitration.

Study abroad programs

Loyola Law has had a long history of contacts with civil law schools in other parts of the world. As a result, Loyola has one of most extensive catalog of study abroad programs in the country. These programs draw students from many other law schools in the country. With the school's special focus on the study of international law, over the course of the years, programs have established in the following countries:

• Budapest, Hungary
• Cuernavaca, Mexico
• Moscow, Russia
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• San Jose, Costa Rica
• Vienna, Austria

Employment prospects

The 2013 U.S. News & World Report survey "America's Best Graduate Schools" states that 35.1% of Loyola students were employed at graduation. According to "Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools," 135 out of 278 or 48.6% of Loyola 2012 graduates were employed 9 months after graduation in a full time position requiring bar passage.

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Loyola University New Orleans people

• Phillip D. Brady (L '76), former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Cabinet Affairs at the White House
• Anh "Joseph" Cao (L '00), first Vietnamese-American in the United States Congress.
• Patrick Connick (L '93), state representative from Jefferson Parish
• Hunt Downer (L '72), Former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives; assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard
• Adrian G. Duplantier (L '49), former State Senator and Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
• Charles Foti (L), former Attorney General of Louisiana
• Edwin Foulke (L '78), United States Assistant Secretary of Labor
• Norman Francis (L '55), current President of Xavier University and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; first African American to enroll at Loyola Law
• Kim Gandy (L '78), current President of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
• E. W. Gravolet, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Plaquemines Parish
• Mitch Landrieu (L), Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Current Mayor of New Orleans
• Moon Landrieu (L '54), former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Harry Lee (L '67), former Sheriff of Jefferson Parish
• Suzanne Haik Terrell, L'84, former Louisiana Commissioner of Elections
• Chet D. Traylor (L), Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1997-2009
• Louis Westerfield (L' 74), served as the first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law
• Robert Wilkie (L '88), current United States Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Edwin E. Willis, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1949 to 1969
• J. Skelly Wright ('32, L'34), former U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

See also

• American Bar Association Profile

External links

• Official site