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Revision as of 05:47, 28 May 2012
University of Colorado Law School | |
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Motto | Let Your Light Shine |
Established | 1892 |
School type | Public |
Parent endowment | $827.64 million[1] |
Dean | Phil Weiser |
Location | Boulder, Colorado, USA |
Enrollment | 547[2] |
Faculty | 77[2] |
USNWR ranking | 44[3] |
Bar pass rate | 95% (first time takers)[4] |
Website | [2] |
ABA profile | University of Colorado Law School |
The University of Colorado Law School is one of the professional graduate schools within the University of Colorado System. It is a public law school, with more than 500 students attending and working toward a Juris Doctor or Master of Law. The Wolf Law Building Located in Boulder, Colorado, and is sited on the south side of the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. The law school houses the William A. Wise Law Library, which is a regional archive for federal government materials and is open to the public. United States Supreme Court Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 1922.[5]
The University of Colorado Law School consistently ranks as a top law school in U.S. News & World Report rankings (currently ranked 44th[6]). It is renowned for its influence in the 12-state Rocky Mountain region and for the strength of its environmental law program.[7]
History
Established in 1892, the University of Colorado Law School is a charter member in the Association of American Law Schools and appeared in 1923 on American Bar Association's first ever publication of approved law schools. Although always located on the greater Boulder campus, the law school has occupied five buildings since its founding. For the first two years of its existence, the school was housed in the Kent building. From 1894 to 1909 the school occupied the Hale Law Building. For the next 50 years, until 1959, the school occupied the Guggenheim Law Building. From 1959 to 2005, the law school occupied the Fleming Law Building. In the fall of 2006, the law school once again moved and now sits in the Wolf Law Building.
The Wolf Law Building
By the late 1990s, Colorado Law had outgrown its building. In 1997 law students voted to tax themselves with a $1,000 per year tuition differential to help finance the building, but in 2001 the State of Colorado General Assembly rescinded its earmarked funds from the project.[8] Facing the risk of accreditation loss, law students worked with campus leaders and successfully passed a $400 per year fee on all Boulder students to fund capital construction on the Wolf Law Building and three other campus projects.[9] The Wolf Law Building was dedicated on September 8, 2006, by United States Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. The dedication ceremony represented the end of a long and creative funding process for a public law school.
In addition to student funds, over $13 million in private gifts were donated to support the construction of the new law building. The Wolf family, in honor of Leon and Dora Wolf, were especially generous in their contribution to the new building that now bears the Wolf family name.
Admissions
The 25th and 75th percentile LSAT scores for entering students are 160 and 165, respectively; the median LSAT is 164. The 25th and 75th percentile GPA for entering students are 3.41 and 3.79, with a median of 3.61.[7]
Job Placement
Controversial 2009 Employment Statistics
In October 2009, the journal Law Week Colorado stirred controversy when it reported that only 35% of the school's Class of 2009 had jobs at graduation.[10][11]
Officials from the school assailed the Law Week Colorado article. Former Assistant Dean of the Office of Career Development SuSaNi Harris called Law Week Colorado's report the product of a "miscalculation" and "misunderstanding" and claimed Law Week Colorado "confused 'employed' and 'unemployed.'"[11] Later, Associate Dean Dayna Matthew told Law Week Colorado that the numbers released were "premature" and asserted that the National Association of Legal Professionals (NALP) would release more favorable statistics in February 2010.[11] The reason, Matthew said, was that the NALP discounted graduates who did not report their employment status.[11]
For its part, Law Week Colorado stuck to its original statistics and noted that the University of Colorado had not provided any new statistics.[11]
Ranking
In 2008, US News & World Report ranked the University of Colorado Law School 32nd in the nation. In 2010, US News & World Report ranked the University of Colorado Law School 38th in the nation. In 2011, the school dropped to 47th, leading the online journal Above the Law to call the school "one of the biggest fallers among the top 50."[12] The school ranks 44th as of 2012.
Dual Degree and Certificate Programs at the University of Colorado Law School
- Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA)
- Juris Doctor/Master of Public Affairs (JD/MPA)
- Juris Doctor/Master of Science, Telecommunications (JD/MST)
- Juris Doctor/Master in Environmental Studies (JD/ENVS)
- Juris Doctor/Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Studies (JD/PhD)
- Juris Doctor/Doctor of Medicine (JD/MD)
- Juris Doctor/Master of Urban and Regional Planning (JD/MURP)
- Juris Doctor/Bachelor of Laws Canada (JD/LLB)
- Tax Emphasis Program
- American Indian Law Certificate
- Juvenile and Family Law Certificate
- Entrepreneurial Law Certificate
Experiential Learning at the University of Colorado Law School
- Clinics: the American Indian Law Clinic, the Civil Practice Clinic, the Criminal Defense Clinic, the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Family Law Clinic, the Juvenile Law Clinic, the Natural Resources Law Clinic, and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic.
- Externships [3]
- Public Service Pledge
- Appellate and Trial Competitions [4]
Publications at the University of Colorado Law School
- University of Colorado Law Review
- Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (CJIELP)
- Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law
Noted Alumni
- Gordon L. Allott, former United States Senator from Colorado
- Alfred Albert Arraj, former United States federal judge
- Michael L. Bender, Chief Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court
- Robert E. Blackburn, United States federal judge
- Jean Sala Breitenstein, former United States federal judge
- Donald G. Brotzman, Former U.S. Representative from Colorado
- Hank Brown, former United States Senator from Colorado and former president of the president of the University of Colorado and the University of Northern Colorado
- Bernie Buescher, former Secretary of State of Colorado
- Anne Gorsuch Burford, Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- George Alfred Carlson, former Governor of Colorado
- Ralph Lawrence Carr, former Governor of Colorado
- Olin Hatfield Chilson, former United States federal judge
- Michael L. Connor, Commissioner United States Bureau of Reclamation
- Stephen Coonts, thriller and suspense novelist
- Vine Deloria, Jr., American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist
- Crisanta Duran, member Colorado House of Representatives
- Fred Folsom, former NCAA football coach
- Larry R. Hicks, United States federal judge
- William Hybl, U.S. Representative to the 56th General Assembly of the United Nations and former President and current President Emeritus of the United States Olympic Committee[13]
- Larry Jent, Member of the Montana Senate
- James Paul Johnson, Former U.S. Representative from Colorado
- Carol Ronning Kapsner, Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
- Louis O. Kelso, political economist and inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- William Lee Knous, Former Governor of Colorado
- Marcia S. Krieger, judge for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Jeanne Labuda, member Colorado House of Representatives
- John H. Marsalis, Former U.S. Representative from Colorado
- John J. McIntyre, Former U.S. Representative from Wyoming
- Walker David Miller, United States federal judge
- Eugene Millikin, former United States Senator from Colorado
- Tom Van Norman, former member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
- Edward Nottingham, former United States federal judge
- Floyd Odlum, lawyer and industrialist[14]
- Frances Olsen, professor of law at UCLA
- Dan Pabon, member Colorado House of Representatives
- Ellen Hart Peña, former world-class runner and lawyer
- Ed Perlmutter, U.S. Representative from Colorado
- Manuel Ramos, noted attorney and author
- William J. Rea, former United States federal judge
- Bill Ritter, Denver District Attorney, Advisor to the U.S. Attorney General, Governor of Colorado
- Ellen Roberts, member, Colorado Senate
- Waldo Henry Rogers, former United States Federal Judge
- Roy Romer, Former Governor of Colorado
- Luis Rovira, former Chief Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court[15]
- Wiley Blount Rutledge, former Justice on the United States Supreme Court
- Brigadier General Felix L. Sparks, America Military Commander
- Pat Steadman, member Colorado Senate
- Carlton R. Stoiber, former Deputy General Counsel for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former director of the United States Department of State office of Nuclear Non-proliferation Policy[16]
- John Suthers, current Attorney General of Colorado
- Timothy Tymkovich, United States Federal Judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- William N. Vaile, Former U.S. Representative from Colorado
- Jacob Weinberger, former United States Federal Judge
- Robert Wherry, Judge of the United States Tax Court
- Fred M. Winner, former United States Federal Judge
Centers at the University of Colorado Law School
- Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES)
- The Natural Resources Law Center
- The Byron R. White Center
- The Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
External links
References
- ^ "University of Colorado Endowment Survey". Sustainable Endowments Institute. 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
- ^ a b c University of Colorado Law School ABA Data
- ^ [1]
- ^ "University of Colorado Endowment Survey" (PDF). Sustainable Endowments Institute. 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
- ^ Wiley B. Rutledge, 1943-1949 « The Supreme Court Historical Society
- ^ U.S. News Rankings Leaked? This Happens Every Year. « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession
- ^ a b Colorado Law :: Facts & Figures
- ^ Spencer, Jim. CU Students Pay for State Stinginess. The Denver Post. Sept. 8, 2006.
- ^ Marthea Davis, CU Making History In Legal Education, NBA News Brief.
- ^ Ashby Jones (10/22/09) Absolutely Wretched’: One Prof’s Take on the State of Legal Ed Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9-30-10.
- ^ a b c d e Debra Cassens Weiss (10/28/09) Law School Says Stats on Jobless Grads Were Wrong; Publication Differs ABA Law Journal. Retrieved 9-30-10.
- ^ David Lat (3/14/11) The 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Out! Above the Law. Retrieved 3/15/11.
- ^ http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/members/48881.htm
- ^ http://sports.nyhistory.org/floyd-odlum/
- ^ http://cuheritage.org/exhibits/notable-alumni/
- ^ http://lawweb.colorado.edu/events/details.jsp?id=2551