Santa Clara University School of Law
| Santa Clara University School of Law |
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| Motto | Lawyers Who Lead |
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| Parent school | Santa Clara University |
| Established | 1851[1] |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $697 million |
| Dean | Donald J. Polden |
| Location | Santa Clara, California, US |
| Enrollment | 963[2] |
| Faculty | 117[2] |
| USNWR ranking | 96, US News Rankings 2012[1] |
| Bar pass rate | 81% (ABA profile) |
| Website | law.scu.edu |
| ABA profile | Santa Clara University School of Law |
The Santa Clara University School of Law (Santa Clara Law) is the law school of Santa Clara University, a Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley region. The School of Law was founded in 1911. The Jesuit affiliation of the university is manifested in a concern with ethics, social justice, and community service.
Santa Clara Law offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree. It also offers several joint degree programs, including J.D./Master of Business Administration (J.D./M.B.A.) and J.D./Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) offered in conjunction with Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, ranked 10th in graduate programs on the U.S. News & World Report graduate schools rankings.[3] In addition, the School offers Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees in Intellectual Property Law, in U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers, and in International and Comparative Law. Santa Clara Law also features specialized curricular programs in High Tech and Intellectual Property law, International Law, and Public Interest and Social Justice law. The School offers more summer study abroad programs than any law school in the United States, with 13 different programs in 17 countries.[4]
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History [edit]
Santa Clara University School of Law was founded in 1911. The school is part of Santa Clara University (founded 1851), the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California and the oldest Catholic university in the American West. It was approved by the American Bar Association in 1937.[5] It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1940.[6]
Rankings [edit]
According to The Faculty Lounge, 43.0% of the Class of 2012 was employed in full-time, long-term positions requiring bar admission, ranking 162nd out of 197 law schools. [7]
Law school rankings of Santa Clara Law include:
- Number 3 for Intellectual Property Law among law schools in the United States[8]
- Number 7 for diversity among law schools (first in California with the USC Law School)[9]
- Number 96 overall among law schools in the United States [1]
- Princeton Review "Best 170 Law Schools" (2008) – Number 22 overall among law schools for average starting salary[10]
- The Census Group Composition ranking, which scores law schools based on selectivity, salary, placement and yield, ranks Santa Clara Law at Number 64[11]
- Hylton Rankings, which scores programs based on their U.S. News & World Report peer assessment ratings provided by law professors and by the mean LSAT scores of each law school, ranked Santa Clara Law at Number 78 overall[12]
- Listed Number 13 overall for mid-career median salary (at $188,000 a year) in Forbes' list of Best Law Schools for Getting Rich[13]
- Listed as "B-" in the January 2011 "Best Public Interest Law Schools" listing by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[14]
- Listed as an "A" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students[15]
Bar passage rates [edit]
Based on a 2001–2007 6 year average, 71.9% of Santa Clara University Law graduates passed the California State Bar.[16]
Post-graduation employment [edit]
Law School Transparency reports a 41.3% employment score for the class of 2011.[17]
According to the American Bar Association's "Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools," 94.5 percent of Santa Clara students were employed nine months after graduation, with 77 percent of graduates employed in the private sector and 21 percent employed in the public sector.[18]
According to the Princeton Review, the average starting salary for Santa Clara Law graduates is $90,000.[19] According to Forbe's magazine, mid-career median salary is currently $188,000 a year.[20]
Students [edit]
The top feeder schools into Santa Clara Law in order are UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and Santa Clara University.[21]
The top five feeder states in order are California, Texas, Arizona, Washington, and Illinois.[21] In 2010, 4,973 people applied to the School of Law and 329 matriculated.[22] Over 44 percent of the applicants were from outside California, including applicants from all 50 states and 55 foreign countries.[22]
The LSAT scores were 162 for the 75th percentile and 158 for the 25th percentile. The GPA for entering students were 3.55 for the 75th percentile and 3.12 for the 25th percentile.[22]
Santa Clara Law has a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.[23]
Statement of Purpose [edit]
"Santa Clara University School of Law will excel in preparing its students to meet the challenges of a legal profession that is increasingly global, technologically sophisticated, and culturally diverse. In fulfilling this vision, the Law School is dedicated to educating lawyers of competence, conscience and compassion. (Adopted in principle by faculty on 2/4/00)" – Santa Clara University website
The School of Law is thus dedicated to:
- The training of lawyers with uncompromising standards of excellence in service to their clients and to society;
- An emphasis on ethical considerations in the legal process;
- Full participation of the legal academic community in the larger University community;
- A diverse community of men and women devoted to freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression;
- Excellence in teaching and scholarly research;
- A balance of the rigorous and the humane in student-teacher relationships;
- A curriculum addressing the fundamental demands of law practice and the evolving needs of society; and
- Endeavors outside the University that reflect high moral standards and professional excellence.
Campus [edit]
Over the last century, the Santa Clara University campus, located along El Camino Real in Santa Clara, has expanded to more than 104 acres (0.4 km2; 0.2 sq mi). Amid its many Mission Style academic and residential buildings are the historic mission gardens, rose garden, and palm trees. The campus benefits from the area's mediterranean climate, with more than 300 days of sun a year.
Until 1939, the law school inhabited present-day St. Joseph's Hall at the center of campus. Under the tenure of Dean Edwin Owens, Bergin Hall was constructed and became home to the school in 1939. The new building was built using monies collected through Santa Clara football's successful appearances in the Sugar Bowl and named after Thomas Bergin, Santa Clara's first graduate, a California legal pioneer, and an early donor to the School of Law.
The Edwin Heafey Law Library was constructed in 1963, and expanded in 1973 to include more space for library materials. Heafey was renovated and expanded again in 1988.
Also in 1973, Bannan Hall was built, including space for the Law School on the ground floor. In 2008 Dean Donald Polden announced the law school would have exclusive use of Bannan Hall, and the building was renovated and used exclusively by the law school shortly thereafter.
Construction on the new law school complex will begin in 2014. Bannan Hall will undergo a major interior and external renovation. The Heafey Law Library will be replaced with an entirely new building which will house a 250-seat moot courtroom, 60-seat moot courtroom, main atrium, grand reading room, student lounge, additional classrooms, and new law library.
Publications [edit]
- Santa Clara Law Review
- Santa Clara Journal of International Law
- Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal
Notable Faculty [edit]
- David D. Friedman – author of The Machinery of Freedom, son of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman.[24]
- Beth van Schaack – Executive Director and Staff Attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability; defense attorney for John Walker Lindh; former clerk for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Deputy to United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. State Department.[citation needed]
- Edward Steinman – Civil Rights and Criminal Defense attorney; argued and won a unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court in the landmark civil rights case Lau v. Nichols, which expanded the rights of students nationwide with limited English proficiency.
- Kenneth A. Manaster – Environmental Law scholar; Chair, Public Advisory Committee to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.[citation needed]
- Tyler Ochoa – Intellectual Property Law scholar.[25]
- Kathleen (Cookie) Ridolfi – Director of the Northern California Innocence Project, member of the Camden 28.[26]
- Gerald F. Uelmen – former Dean; Criminal Law/Procedure; member of the defense team for the O.J. Simpson murder case.[citation needed]
- Catherine Sandoval – Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission.[27]
- Stephanie Wildman – Social Justice scholar, Director of the Center for Social Justice and Public Interest.[28]
- Ro Khanna – former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce
Notable Alumni [edit]
- Kyong-Whan "Kenny" Ahn (1985)[29] – Director of the Public Law and Human Rights Law Center of the Faculty of Law at Seoul National University
- Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson (1979)[29] – Judge on Guam's Superior Court
- Elizabeth Birch (1985)[30] – former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC); former Director of litigation for Apple Computer and General Counsel for its Claris subsidiary
- W. David Carey III (1981)[29] – President and CEO of Outrigger Enterprises, Inc.
- John Cruden (1974)[29] – Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section for the U.S. Department of Justice
- Benjamin J. Cruz (1975)[29] – Attorney General on Guam's Superior Court
- Dorian Daley (1986)[29] – General Counsel for Oracle Corporation
- William Dallas (1987)[29] – Founder and Owner of Dallas Capital
- Alfred Delucchi (1960)[29] – Alameda County Judge; Presided over Scott Peterson trial.
- Mike Dillon (1984)[29] – General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Sun Microsystems
- Tom Dunlap (1979)[29] – former General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Intel
- Carrie Dwyer (1976)[29] – Executive Vice President of Corporate oversight at Charles Schwab
- Mike Espy (1978)[31] – former United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Phyllis Jean Hamilton (1976)[29] – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Elizabeth Harris (1986)[29] – Senior Corporate Counsel for Safeway Inc.
- Eugene Hyman (1977)[29] – Superior Court Judge of Santa Clara County; created the Juvenile Delinquency Court for the Domestic Violence and Family Violence programs, the first of its kind in the US
- Arturo Jaramillo (1975)[29] – head of Regulation and Licensing Department, State of California
- Eileen Kato (1980)[29] – former president of the Washington State District and Municipal Judges Association, the first judge of color to head the organization; former senior trial attorney with the Department of the Treasury
- Beth Kerttula (1981)[32] – Minority Leader, Alaska House of Representatives
- Mary Jo Levinger (1973)[29] – Superior Court Judge of Santa Clara County
- Zoe Lofgren (1975)[29] – U.S. Representative for California's 16th congressional district
- Bonnie MacNaughton (1982)[29] – Senior Attorney at Microsoft
- Peter McCloskey (1980)[29] – Senior Trial Attorney at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Rodney Moore (1985)[29] – President of the National Bar Association
- Douglas Moylan (1991)[29] – Judge on the Supreme Court of Guam. First elected Attorney General of Guam.
- Edward Panelli (1955)[29] – former Justice of the Supreme Court of California
- Leon Panetta (1963)[29] – former Secretary of Defense; former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton
- Howard Peters (1978)[29] – Peters, Verny, Jones, Schmitt & Aston LLP; American Chemical Society National Board of Directors
- Rolanda Pierre-Dixon (1980)[29] – Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney
- Eugene Premo (1962)[29] – Associate Justice, California Sixth District Court of Appeal
- Curren Price (1976)[33] – Senator, California State Senate
- Murlene Randle (1980)[29] – Director of the Office of Criminal Justice for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Thomas Romig (1980)[29] – Dean of the Washburn University School of Law
- David Sandino (1984)[29] – Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources
- Scott Shipman (1999)[29] – Associate General Counsel, Global Privacy Leader for eBay
- Mark Stone (1988) – Assemblymember for California's 29th State Assembly district
- Hae-Suk Suh (1987)[29] – Proportional Representative in Korea's National Assembly
- Alan Tieger (1975)[29] – Senior Trial Attorney at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Jason Weiss (1992)[29] – FBI computer forensics agent
- Jean High Wetenkamp (1976)[29] – Superior Court Judge of Santa Clara County
- James Wright (1949)[29] – former Judge for the Santa Clara County Superior Court
- Gordon Yamate (1980)[29] – Vice President and General Counsel of Knight Ridder, Inc.
Law School Deans [edit]
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- James Campbell – 1911 to 1918
- Lawrence E. O'Keefe, SJ – 1919 to 1920
- Clarence Coolidge – 1920 to 1933
- Edwin J. Owens – 1933 to 1953
- Byron J. Snow – 1953 to 1955
- Warren P. McKenney – 1955 to 1959
- Leo Huard – 1959 to 1969
- George Strong (acting) – 1970
- George Alexander – 1970 to 1985
- Richard Rykoff (acting) – 1985 to 1986
- Gerald Uelmen – 1986 to 1994
- Mack Player – 1994 to 2003
- Donald J. Polden – 2003 to 2013
- Lisa Kloppenberg - 2013 to Present
Centers and institutes [edit]
Centers and institutes based at Santa Clara Law include:[34]
- BroadBand Institute of California
- Center for Social Justice and Public Service
- Death Penalty College
- High Tech Law Institute
- Institute of International and Comparative Law
- Institute of Recovery and Redress
- Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center
- Northern California Innocence Project
References [edit]
- ^ a b c "U.S. News & World Report, "Best Law Schools: Santa Clara University"". Retrieved April 14, 2011.
- ^ a b Santa Clara University School of Law Official ABA Data
- ^ Business – Best Graduate Schools – Education – US News and World Report
- ^ Santa Clara Law Center for Global Law & Policy
- ^ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
- ^ AALS Member Schools
- ^ Rosin, Gary. "Full Rankings: Bar Admission Required, Full-Time, Long Term", The Faculty Lounge, 30 March 2013. Retrieved on 2 May 2013.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Law – Best Graduate Schools – Education – US News and World Report – Most Diverse
- ^ Reprinted in The National Jurist – January 2008 issue
- ^ University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne College and University Rankings Site
- ^ Microsoft Word – HYLTON RANKINGS 2007 _2_.doc
- ^ Best Law Schools for Getting Rich – Forbes
- ^ Weyenberg, Michelle (January 2011). "Best Law Schools for Public Interest". The National Jurist (San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines) 20 (4): 24–28
- ^ Larsen, Rebecca (March 2011). "Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)". The National Jurist (San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines) 20 (6): 30–37
- ^ "Internet Legal Research Group: Santa Clara University, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ . Law School Transparency http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=santaclara. Retrieved 23 April 2013. Missing or empty
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- ^ The Princeton Review – Law – Santa Clara University School of Law – Employment Statistics
- ^ The Best Law Schools For Getting Rich – Forbes
- ^ a b About Santa Clara Law – Fast Facts
- ^ a b c Santa Clara Law Admissions – Class Profile 2010
- ^ Order of the Coif member schools
- ^ Bowmaker, Simon W. (2010). The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 9781848447905.
- ^ Parker, Jo Alyson; Harris, Paul A.; Steineck, Christian (2010). Time: Limits and Constraints. Brill. p. xiii. ISBN 9789004185753.
- ^ Fletcher, Connie (2006). Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work from Discovery Through Verdict. Macmillan. p. 377. ISBN 9780312340377.
- ^ Santa Clara University Law Professor Catherine Sandoval Named Commissioner of CPUC
- ^ Faculty Profile – Stephanie Wildman – Santa Clara Law
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak "Lawyers Who Lead alphabetical list". Santa Clara University. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ Hemmelgarn, Seth (Npvember 1, 2007). "Former HRC head Elizabeth Birch honored at diversity event". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ "Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy". Black Americans in Congress. United States House of Representatives. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ "Representative Beth Kerttula". Alaska State Legislature: House of Representatives. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ "Senator Curren D. Price, Jr.". California State Senate. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ Santa Clara Law – Centers, Clinics & Programs
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