Santa Clara University School of Law

Santa Clara University
School of Law
Motto Lawyers Who Lead
Parent school Santa Clara University
Established 1851[1]
School type Private
Parent endowment $876 million
Dean Lisa A. Kloppenberg
Location Santa Clara, California, US
Enrollment 880[2]
Faculty 117
USNWR ranking 94, US News Rankings 2015-2016[1]
Bar pass rate 77.11% (Required ABA Disclosure Information)
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 double 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]

History

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]

Prior to the requirement of all Californian law graduate to take the State Bar Exam, Santa Clara Law was one of the five schools whose graduates were exempt from the examination, along with Boalt Hall, Hastings, Stanford, and USC.[7]

Rankings

According to the required disclosures under ABA Section 509, 50.3% of the Class of 2013 was employed in full-time, long-term positions requiring bar admission.[8]

Law school rankings of Santa Clara Law include:

Bar passage rates

Based on a 2001–2007 6 year average, 73% of Santa Clara University Law graduates passed the California State Bar.[18]

Post-graduation employment

According to Santa Clara's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 42.2% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.[19] Santa Clara Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 34.5%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[20]

Law School Transparency reports a 41.3% employment score for the class of 2011.[21]

Bannan Hall

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.[22]

According to the Princeton Review, the average starting salary for Santa Clara Law graduates is $90,000.[23] According to Forbe's magazine, mid-career median salary is currently $188,000 a year.[24]

According to a study done by online salary-information company PayScale, graduates of Santa Clara Law have the third highest midcareer median salary among all graduate programs in the United States.[25] The report found that Santa Clara Law graduates typically make $76,900 the first year following graduation and attain a midcareer median salary of $197,700.[26]

ABA Employment Summary for 2013 Graduates[27]
Employment Status Percentage
Employed - Bar Passage Required
  
 50.0%
Employed - J.D. Advantage
  
 20.19%
Employed - Professional Position
  
 6.83%
Employed - Non-Professional Position
  
 0.31%
Employed - Undeterminable
  
 0.0%
Pursuing Graduate Degree Full Time
  
 1.55%
Unemployed - Start Date Deferred
  
 0.93%
Unemployed - Not Seeking
  
 0.31%
Unemployed - Seeking
  
 17.7%
Employment Status Unknown
  
 2.17%
Total of 322 Graduates

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Santa Clara for the 2013-2014 academic year is $70,320.[28] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $262,472.[29]

Students

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.[30]

Bergin Hall

The top five feeder states in order are California, Texas, Arizona, Washington, and Illinois.[30] In 2013, 2,598 people applied to the School of Law and 246 matriculated.[31] Over 44 percent of the applicants were from outside California, including applicants from all 50 states and 55 foreign countries.[31]

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.[31]

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.[32]

Campus

Santa Clara University Campus – St. Ignatius Statue

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. The collection contains over 400,000 volumes in both print and digital formats.[33] Additionally, the library manages an institutional repository which currently contains over 4,000 digital items including a collection of papers related to the Congressional hearings regarding the Watergate Scandal donated by Congressman Don Edwards.[34] Other digital collections include documents relating to litigation over the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act (also known as Obamacare) and the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.[35]

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.

Notable Faculty

Entrance to Bergin Hall and the Heafey Law Library

Notable Alumni

Law School Deans

Timeline of historical events, including previous deans.[46]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "U.S. News & World Report, "Best Law Schools: Santa Clara University"".
  2. ↑ Santa Clara University Consumer Information
  3. ↑ Business – Best Graduate Schools – Education – US News and World Report
  4. ↑ Santa Clara Law Center for Global Law & Policy
  5. ↑ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ AALS Member Schools
  7. ↑ http://law.scu.edu/centennial/coolidge-years
  8. ↑ "Santa Clara University School of Law - Class of 2013 Summary Report"], Retrieved on 15 October 2014.
  9. ↑ U.S. News and World Report - Intellectual Property Law
  10. ↑ Law – Best Graduate Schools – Education – US News and World Report – Most Diverse
  11. ↑ Reprinted in The National Jurist – January 2008 issue
  12. ↑ University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne College and University Rankings Site
  13. ↑ Hylton Rankings Microsoft Word – HYLTON RANKINGS 2007 _2_.doc
  14. ↑ Best Law Schools for Getting Rich – Forbes
  15. ↑ Weyenberg, Michelle (January 2011). "Best Law Schools for Public Interest". The National Jurist (San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines) 20 (4): 24–28
  16. ↑ Larsen, Rebecca (March 2011). "Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)". The National Jurist (San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines) 20 (6): 30–37
  17. ↑ Washington and Lee School of Law - Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking, 2005-2012
  18. ↑ "Internet Legal Research Group: Santa Clara University, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  19. ↑ "ABA Disclosures".
  20. ↑ "Santa Clara Profile".
  21. ↑ "Law School Transparency". Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  22. ↑ http://officialguide.lsac.org/SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/ABA_LawSchoolData/ABA4851.pdf
  23. ↑ The Princeton Review – Law – Santa Clara University School of Law – Employment Statistics
  24. ↑ The Best Law Schools For Getting Rich – Forbes
  25. ↑ Wall Street Journal "Harvard Law Graduates Top Salary Survey" October 22, 2014
  26. ↑ PayScale "Top 10 Law Schools by Salary Potential" October 23, 2014
  27. ↑ "Employment Summary for 2013 Graduates".
  28. ↑ "Tuition and Expenses".
  29. ↑ "Santa Clara University Profile".
  30. 1 2 About Santa Clara Law – Fast Facts
  31. 1 2 3 Santa Clara Law Admissions – Class Profile 2010
  32. ↑ Order of the Coif member schools
  33. ↑ Heafey Law Library - About the Library
  34. ↑ Watergate Hearings
  35. ↑ Santa Clara Law Digital Commons - Communities
  36. ↑ Santa Clara Law Prof. Colleen Chien Joins White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "Santa Clara Law", Sep. 13, 2013
  37. ↑ Bowmaker, Simon W. (2010). The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 9781848447905.
  38. ↑ Santa Clara University Law Professor Catherine Sandoval Named Commissioner of CPUC
  39. ↑ "Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy". Black Americans in Congress. United States House of Representatives. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  40. 1 2 3 4 "Lawyers Who Lead alphabetical list". Santa Clara University. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  41. ↑ "Representative Beth Kerttula". Alaska State Legislature: House of Representatives. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  42. ↑ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000020
  43. ↑ http://www.therecorder.com/id=900005437209/Judicial-Profile-Edward-Panelli?slreturn=20160405105413
  44. ↑ "Senator Curren D. Price, Jr.". California State Senate. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  45. ↑ http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/general/2002-03/releases/021103aaa.html
  46. ↑ Santa Clara Law Historical Timeline
  47. ↑ "Mack A. Player | Santa Clara Law". law.scu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  48. ↑ "Donald J. Polden | Santa Clara Law". law.scu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  49. ↑ "Lisa A. Kloppenberg | Santa Clara Law". law.scu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-08.

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