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Boston University School of Law

January 20, 2023

Boston University School of Law (Boston Law or BU Law) is the law school of Boston University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the United States and considered an elite American graduate legal institution.[5]

Boston University School of Law
Established1872
School typePrivate law school
Parent endowment$3.35 billion[1]
DeanAngela Onwuachi-Willig
LocationBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Enrollment648 FT-JD[2] 350 LLM
Faculty198[3][2]
USNWR ranking17th (2023)[2]
Bar pass rate94.50%[4]
Websitehttp://www.bu.edu/law/

Established in 1872, Boston University Law is the second-oldest law school in the state of Massachusetts, after Harvard University, and is the third-oldest law school in New England, after Harvard and Yale University. The school is an original charter member of the American Bar Association, and is the one of the oldest continuously operating law schools in the country. Approximately 630 students are enrolled in the full-time J.D. degree program (approximately 210 per class) and about 350 in the school's five LLM degree programs. Boston University Law was one of the first law schools in the country to admit students to study law regardless of race or gender.

History

 
BU School of Law campus

The Boston University School of Law was founded in 1872. It was one of the first law schools to admit women and minorities, at a time when most other law schools barred them. In 1881, Lelia J. Robinson became the first female BU Law graduate. Then, women lawyers were less than half of one percent of the profession.[6] Upon graduation, she successfully lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to permit the admission of women to the state bar, and in 1882, became the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Her classmate, Nathan Abbott, would later become the founding dean of Stanford Law School. Another prominent female alumna at the time, Alice Stone Blackwell, would go on to help found the League of Women Voters and edit the Woman's Journal. Takeo Kikuchi (1877), the school's first Japanese graduate, was co-founder and president of Tokyo's English Law School which grew into Chuo University. Clara Burrill Bruce (1926) was the first black woman elected editor-in-chief of a law review (the Boston University Law Review).[7]

BU Law's first buildings were 36 Bromfield Street, 18–20 Beacon Street and 10 Ashburton Place. The first year of courses commenced in 1872. In 1895, the university's trustees acquired 11 Ashburton Place, which was refurbished and named Isaac Rich Hall in honor of the third founder of Boston University. The dedication speaker was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. whose historic speech The Path of the Law was delivered in 1897.

In 1918, former United States President William Howard Taft lectured on legal ethics at BU Law until his appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court two years later. In 1921, the Boston University Law Review was founded.[8]

Isaac Rich Hall housed BU Law until 1964. In 1964 BU Law occupied the bottom half of the current building, 765 Commonwealth Avenue on the Charles River Campus, colloquially known as the "Tower". BU Law shared the Tower with the School of Education for some years but now occupies the entire building. The School of Law's legal library, the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries, occupies three floors in the Law Complex, spanning both the Law Tower and the Redstone Building. The Libraries also include two floors of closed stacks in the basement of the adjacent Mugar Memorial Library, BU's main library. The entire BU Law tower underwent a multi-million dollar refurbishment from 2014 to 2018.[9]

In 1975, BU Law began publishing the American Journal of Law & Medicine.[10]

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a notable BU Law lecture outlining an optimistic view of the judiciary and its power to use the United States Constitution to for good.[11]

In July 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a new partnership allowing BU Law to serve as headquarters for a $350 million initiative researching and combating antibiotic-resistant diseases, CARB-X.[12] Professor Kevin Outterson, a health law specialist and researcher at BU Law, serves as executive director of the initiative, which is named CARB-X.[12]

Academics

Boston University School of Law offers a rigorous and broad selection of legal classes and seminars with a student to faculty ratio of 12:1. It offers the J.D. and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees as well as numerous dual degrees. With over 200 courses and seminars, BU Law's curriculum is one of the widest selections of any law school in the country. This curriculum covers in 18 different areas of legal study. The student to faculty is 6:1.

There are approximately 20 study abroad opportunities at BU Law, which most students partake in their second year, including dual-degree programs with international universities. The campus offers five moot court opportunities, seven academic concentration tracks, and legal writing on six academic journals.

Admissions

BU Law's most recent entering class comes from 41 states and the District of Columbia. These students represent 16 countries and 155 undergraduate institutions.[13]

Admission to Boston University School of Law is especially competitive, with a 12% acceptance rate in the 2021-2022 admissions cycle.[14] The 50th LSAT percentile for the 2022 entering class was 170, and the median GPA was a 3.84. The BU Law Admissions office hosts a large alumni network. There are 25,000+ BU Law alumni worldwide.

Rankings

Boston University School of Law currently ranks 17th among American law schools in the 2023 list of best law schools compiled by U.S. News & World Report. It has ranked as high as 11th and as low as 22 in the same ranking.[15] U.S. News also ranks the school's Health Law program #5 and Intellectual Property Law program #11. BU Law is ranked # 8 for graduates with the best debt-to-salary ratio. It is ranked #29 by the Above The Law Top 50 Law Schools list for post-graduate gainful employment.[16]

Attorney Skills Accelerator Program

The Attorney Skills Accelerator Program (ASAP)[17] at Boston University School of Law offers summer classes, clinics, and externships for qualified J.D. students enrolled in accredited law schools. During Summer 2017, ASAP students will be able to enroll in Contract Drafting[18] and/or Negotiation[19] courses. ASAP students will also have the opportunity to take part in a legal externship, or one of three clinics:

  • Entrepreneurship & IP Clinic[20]
  • Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic[21]
  • Criminal Law: Prosecutor Clinic[22]

Law journals

  • Boston University Law Review
  • American Journal of Law & Medicine
  • Review of Banking & Financial Law
  • Boston University International Law Journal
  • Journal of Science & Technology Law
  • Public Interest Law Journal

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at BU Law for the 2017–18 academic year was $74,689.[23] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $243,230.[24]

Employment

According to BU Law's official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 87.6% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.[25] BU Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 11.3%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2019 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job ten months after graduation.[26]

For new graduates, the self-reported median starting salary for the class of 2019 was $176,000 in the private sector, and $79,000 in the public sector.[2] This ranked the school #9 on the US News list "Schools Where Salaries for Grads Most Outweigh the Debt".[27] BU placed 68 graduates from the class of 2019 at NLJ 100 firms, earning it the number 15 slot on the National Journal's law school rankings for large law firm employment.[28]

Notable people

Alumni

Main article: List of Boston University School of Law alumni

Faculty

Former faculty

References

  1. ^ "BU's Endowment Grows by Nearly $1 Billion".
  2. ^ a b c d Boston University | Best Law School | US News
  3. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Boston University - 2018 - First Time Bar Passage". abarequireddisclosures.org. American Bar Association. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  6. ^ Babcock, Barbara Allen (1998). . Stanford Law School. Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
  7. ^ "BU School of Law Kikuchi, Takeo". Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  8. ^ "BU School of Law Timeline". Boston University. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  9. ^ "Law Libraries | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  10. ^ "Law Libraries | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  11. ^ "Law Libraries | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  12. ^ a b Division, News (July 27, 2016). "HHS forges unprecedented partnership to combat antimicrobial resistance". HHS.gov. Retrieved October 11, 2016. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  13. ^ Class Profile | School of Law
  14. ^ https://www.bu.edu/law/files/2021/12/Std509InfoReport-69-69-12-15-2021-11-27-24.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  15. ^ Best Law School Rankings | Law Program Rankings | US News
  16. ^ Best Law School Rankings | Law Program Rankings | US News
  17. ^ "Attorney Skills Accelerator Program | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  18. ^ . www.bu.edu. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  19. ^ "Negotiation | School of Law". www-staging.bu.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  20. ^ "Entrepreneurship & IP Clinic | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  21. ^ "Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  22. ^ "Criminal Law: Prosecutor Clinic | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  23. ^ "Tuition, Fees, and Expenses".
  24. ^ "Boston University Profile".
  25. ^ . Archived from the original on October 25, 2016.
  26. ^ "Boston University Profile".
  27. ^ 10 Law Schools that Pay Off
  28. ^ The National Jurist – Back to School 2015
  29. ^ "Obituary, Frederic W. Allen". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, VT. April 13, 2016.

External links

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  • Boston University School of Law

January 20, 2023
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Boston University School of Law Boston Law or BU Law is the law school of Boston University a private research university in Boston Massachusetts It is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the United States and considered an elite American graduate legal institution 5 Boston University School of LawEstablished1872School typePrivate law schoolParent endowment 3 35 billion 1 DeanAngela Onwuachi WilligLocationBoston Massachusetts United StatesEnrollment648 FT JD 2 350 LLMFaculty198 3 2 USNWR ranking17th 2023 2 Bar pass rate94 50 4 Websitehttp www bu edu law Established in 1872 Boston University Law is the second oldest law school in the state of Massachusetts after Harvard University and is the third oldest law school in New England after Harvard and Yale University The school is an original charter member of the American Bar Association and is the one of the oldest continuously operating law schools in the country Approximately 630 students are enrolled in the full time J D degree program approximately 210 per class and about 350 in the school s five LLM degree programs Boston University Law was one of the first law schools in the country to admit students to study law regardless of race or gender Contents 1 History 2 Academics 2 1 Admissions 2 2 Rankings 2 3 Attorney Skills Accelerator Program 3 Law journals 4 Costs 5 Employment 6 Notable people 6 1 Alumni 6 2 Faculty 6 3 Former faculty 7 References 8 External linksHistory Edit BU School of Law campus The Boston University School of Law was founded in 1872 It was one of the first law schools to admit women and minorities at a time when most other law schools barred them In 1881 Lelia J Robinson became the first female BU Law graduate Then women lawyers were less than half of one percent of the profession 6 Upon graduation she successfully lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to permit the admission of women to the state bar and in 1882 became the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar Her classmate Nathan Abbott would later become the founding dean of Stanford Law School Another prominent female alumna at the time Alice Stone Blackwell would go on to help found the League of Women Voters and edit the Woman s Journal Takeo Kikuchi 1877 the school s first Japanese graduate was co founder and president of Tokyo s English Law School which grew into Chuo University Clara Burrill Bruce 1926 was the first black woman elected editor in chief of a law review the Boston University Law Review 7 BU Law s first buildings were 36 Bromfield Street 18 20 Beacon Street and 10 Ashburton Place The first year of courses commenced in 1872 In 1895 the university s trustees acquired 11 Ashburton Place which was refurbished and named Isaac Rich Hall in honor of the third founder of Boston University The dedication speaker was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr whose historic speech The Path of the Law was delivered in 1897 In 1918 former United States President William Howard Taft lectured on legal ethics at BU Law until his appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court two years later In 1921 the Boston University Law Review was founded 8 Isaac Rich Hall housed BU Law until 1964 In 1964 BU Law occupied the bottom half of the current building 765 Commonwealth Avenue on the Charles River Campus colloquially known as the Tower BU Law shared the Tower with the School of Education for some years but now occupies the entire building The School of Law s legal library the Fineman amp Pappas Law Libraries occupies three floors in the Law Complex spanning both the Law Tower and the Redstone Building The Libraries also include two floors of closed stacks in the basement of the adjacent Mugar Memorial Library BU s main library The entire BU Law tower underwent a multi million dollar refurbishment from 2014 to 2018 9 In 1975 BU Law began publishing the American Journal of Law amp Medicine 10 US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a notable BU Law lecture outlining an optimistic view of the judiciary and its power to use the United States Constitution to for good 11 In July 2016 the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a new partnership allowing BU Law to serve as headquarters for a 350 million initiative researching and combating antibiotic resistant diseases CARB X 12 Professor Kevin Outterson a health law specialist and researcher at BU Law serves as executive director of the initiative which is named CARB X 12 Academics EditBoston University School of Law offers a rigorous and broad selection of legal classes and seminars with a student to faculty ratio of 12 1 It offers the J D and Master of Laws LL M degrees as well as numerous dual degrees With over 200 courses and seminars BU Law s curriculum is one of the widest selections of any law school in the country This curriculum covers in 18 different areas of legal study The student to faculty is 6 1 There are approximately 20 study abroad opportunities at BU Law which most students partake in their second year including dual degree programs with international universities The campus offers five moot court opportunities seven academic concentration tracks and legal writing on six academic journals Admissions Edit BU Law s most recent entering class comes from 41 states and the District of Columbia These students represent 16 countries and 155 undergraduate institutions 13 Admission to Boston University School of Law is especially competitive with a 12 acceptance rate in the 2021 2022 admissions cycle 14 The 50th LSAT percentile for the 2022 entering class was 170 and the median GPA was a 3 84 The BU Law Admissions office hosts a large alumni network There are 25 000 BU Law alumni worldwide Rankings Edit Boston University School of Law currently ranks 17th among American law schools in the 2023 list of best law schools compiled by U S News amp World Report It has ranked as high as 11th and as low as 22 in the same ranking 15 U S News also ranks the school s Health Law program 5 and Intellectual Property Law program 11 BU Law is ranked 8 for graduates with the best debt to salary ratio It is ranked 29 by the Above The Law Top 50 Law Schools list for post graduate gainful employment 16 Attorney Skills Accelerator Program Edit The Attorney Skills Accelerator Program ASAP 17 at Boston University School of Law offers summer classes clinics and externships for qualified J D students enrolled in accredited law schools During Summer 2017 ASAP students will be able to enroll in Contract Drafting 18 and or Negotiation 19 courses ASAP students will also have the opportunity to take part in a legal externship or one of three clinics Entrepreneurship amp IP Clinic 20 Legislative Policy amp Drafting Clinic 21 Criminal Law Prosecutor Clinic 22 Law journals EditBoston University Law Review American Journal of Law amp Medicine Review of Banking amp Financial Law Boston University International Law Journal Journal of Science amp Technology Law Public Interest Law JournalCosts EditThe total cost of attendance indicating the cost of tuition fees and living expenses at BU Law for the 2017 18 academic year was 74 689 23 The Law School Transparency estimated debt financed cost of attendance for three years is 243 230 24 Employment EditAccording to BU Law s official 2019 ABA required disclosures 87 6 of the Class of 2017 obtained full time long term JD required employment ten months after graduation 25 BU Law s Law School Transparency under employment score is 11 3 indicating the percentage of the Class of 2019 unemployed pursuing an additional degree or working in a non professional short term or part time job ten months after graduation 26 For new graduates the self reported median starting salary for the class of 2019 was 176 000 in the private sector and 79 000 in the public sector 2 This ranked the school 9 on the US News list Schools Where Salaries for Grads Most Outweigh the Debt 27 BU placed 68 graduates from the class of 2019 at NLJ 100 firms earning it the number 15 slot on the National Journal s law school rankings for large law firm employment 28 Notable people EditAlumni Edit Main article List of Boston University School of Law alumni Frederic W Allen LLB 1951 chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1984 1997 29 Lincoln C Almond JD 1961 governor of Rhode Island George W Anderson LLB 1890 judge of the U S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Consuelo Northrup Bailey LLB 1925 first woman elected as lieutenant governor in the United States F Lee Bailey LLB 1960 criminal defense lawyer represented Sam Sheppard and O J Simpson among others Albert Brown LLB 1904 governor of New Hampshire Fred H Brown LLB 1884 governor of New Hampshire U S congressman Edward W Brooke LLB 1948 LLM 1949 attorney general of Massachusetts first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote one of only five African Americans to serve in the U S Senate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom William M Butler LLB 1884 U S senator MA Norman S Case LLB 1912 governor of Rhode Island Martha M Coakley JD 1979 Massachusetts attorney general 2007 2015 district attorney for Middlesex County Massachusetts 1999 2007 William S Cohen LLB 1965 U S Secretary of Defense U S senator from Maine Paul A Dever LLB 1926 governor of Massachusetts Joshua Eric Dodge 1877 Wisconsin Supreme Court Samuel Felker JD governor of New Hampshire Michael F Flaherty JD 1994 president of the Boston City Council Michael D Fricklas JD 1984 executive vice president general counsel and secretary of Viacom Inc Richard Graber JD 1981 former United States ambassador to the Czech Republic Judd A Gregg JD 1972 LLM 1975 U S senator Governor of New Hampshire Melanie B Jacobs JD 1994 dean of the University of Louisville School of Law Jeff Jacoby JD 1983 Boston Globe opinion editorial columnist Dr Barbara C Jordan LLB 1959 first African American woman elected to the U S Congress from a southern state awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 first woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 1976 David E Kelley JD 1983 Emmy winning television producer Robert Khuzami JD 1983 director of Enforcement U S Securities and Exchange Commission Gary F Locke JD 1975 US ambassador to China United States Secretary of Commerce governor of Washington and the first Asian American governor in the mainland U S Maria Lopez JD 1978 first Hispanic appointed a judge in the Massachusetts current television jurist on the U S syndicated television show Judge Maria Lopez Sandra Lynch JD 1971 chief judge U S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Frederick William Mansfield LLB 1902 46th mayor of Boston Massachusetts and 38th treasurer and receiver general of Massachusetts Elizabeth Sadie Holloway Marston LLB 1918 co creator of the comic book character Wonder Woman J Howard McGrath LLB 1929 sixtieth attorney general 1949 52 U S senator 1940 45 Governor of Rhode Island Thomas McIntyre LLB 1940 U S senator NH F Bradford Morse LLB 1949 director of the United Nations Development Program Markos Moulitsas JD 1999 founder of the popular blog Daily Kos Shannon O Brien JD 1985 first woman to hold the office of treasurer and receiver general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Irving H Picard JD 1966 trustee in the liquidation of Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC Shari Redstone JD 1979 LLM 1981 president of National Amusements and vice chair of CBS Corporation and Viacom Chase T Rogers JD 1983 chief justice Connecticut Supreme Court Greg Griffin LLM 1984 Judge Alabama 15th Judicial Circuit Court First African American General Counsel of an Alabama State Agency William Russell LLB 1879 governor of Massachusetts Sabita Singh JD 1990 associate justice of the Appeals Court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Robert T Stafford LLB 1938 HON 1959 U S senator father of the Robert T Stafford Student Loan Stafford Loan program the Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act Stafford Act and co sponsor of the Wilderness Protection Act Niki Tsongas JD 1988 congresswoman for Massachusetts s 5th congressional district Robert Upton LLB 1907 U S senator NH David I Walsh LLB 1897 U S senator governor of Massachusetts Myrth York JD 1972 Rhode Island state senator first female chair of the Senate Health Education and Welfare Committee Owen D Young LLB 1896 founder of RCA 1929 Time magazine s Man of the Year chairman and CEO of General Electric David Zaslav JD 1985 president and CEO Discovery Communications Inc Howard Moore Jr LLB 1960 general counsel Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC and Federation of Southern CooperativesFaculty Edit George Annas James Bessen James E Fleming Tamar Frankel Wendy Gordon Keith Hylton Gary Lawson David Lyons Wendy Mariner Linda McClain Kevin Outterson Christopher T Robertson Jay Wexler David H Webber William G YoungFormer faculty Edit Randy Barnett Janis M Berry Danielle Citron Archibald Cox Edwin W Hadley George Stillman Hillard Boyd B Jones Rikki Klieman David A Lowy Frank Parsons Arthur Holbrook Wellman Henry A WymanReferences Edit BU s Endowment Grows by Nearly 1 Billion a b c d Boston University Best Law School US News Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on August 13 2016 Retrieved October 24 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Boston University 2018 First Time Bar Passage abarequireddisclosures org American Bar Association Retrieved April 12 2019 Boston University School of Law Official Guide Archived from the original on March 31 2014 Retrieved June 5 2014 Babcock Barbara Allen 1998 Making History Lelia Robinson s Index to American Women Lawyers Stanford Law School Archived from the original on December 2 2010 Retrieved March 15 2010 BU School of Law Kikuchi Takeo Retrieved January 5 2021 BU School of Law Timeline Boston University Retrieved January 16 2014 Law Libraries School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 12 2016 Law Libraries School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 12 2016 Law Libraries School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 12 2016 a b Division News July 27 2016 HHS forges unprecedented partnership to combat antimicrobial resistance HHS gov Retrieved October 11 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a first has generic name help Class Profile School of Law https www bu edu law files 2021 12 Std509InfoReport 69 69 12 15 2021 11 27 24 pdf bare URL PDF Best Law School Rankings Law Program Rankings US News Best Law School Rankings Law Program Rankings US News Attorney Skills Accelerator Program School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 13 2016 Contract Drafting School of Law www bu edu Archived from the original on December 20 2016 Retrieved December 13 2016 Negotiation School of Law www staging bu edu Retrieved December 13 2016 Entrepreneurship amp IP Clinic School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 13 2016 Legislative Policy amp Drafting Clinic School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 13 2016 Criminal Law Prosecutor Clinic School of Law www bu edu Retrieved December 13 2016 Tuition Fees and Expenses Boston University Profile Class of 2015 Employment Archived from the original on October 25 2016 Boston University Profile 10 Law Schools that Pay Off The National Jurist Back to School 2015 Obituary Frederic W Allen Burlington Free Press Burlington VT April 13 2016 External links Edit Media related to Boston University School of Law at Wikimedia Commons Boston University School of Law Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Boston University School of Law amp oldid 1117507680, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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