Northwestern University School of Law

The Northwestern University School of Law is an elite, private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the North Side's Streeterville, it is one of the twelve constituent schools of Northwestern University. The law school was founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. The first law school established in Chicago, it became jointly controlled by Northwestern University in 1873 and fully incorporated into the Northwestern in 1891. The law school was ranked 12th by the 2012 Edition of US News and World Report guide to the nation's top law schools.

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