The University of Illinois College of Law (UIUC Law) is the law school of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the public University of Illinois university system.
One of the most prestigious law schools in the Midwest and one of the best public law schools in the country, the College of Law was established in 1897, and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law. The College of Law also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers. The school offers 10 scholarly areas of research, teaching, and coursework, called specialty programs. These are not majors or concentrations in the traditional sense but areas of academic interest and strength within the College of Law. The specialty programs include; Business Law and Policy; Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy; Constitutional Theory, History and Law; Criminal Law and Procedure; Health Law and Policy; Intellectual Property and Technology Law; International and Comparative Law; Law, Behavior and Social Sciences; Law and Philosophy; and Legal History.
Established more than a century ago, the College shares the world-class reputation of the University of Illinois. The College of Law is consistently ranked among the nation's top 10 public law schools and a peer of the nation's private elite. The school has the 14th largest law library in the United States of America. In the 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranking of American law schools, the College of Law was ranked 21st in the country, in the 2011 U.S. News and World Report ranking of American law schools, the College of Law was ranked 23rd in the country. After it had turned out that some earlier rankings had been based on inaccurate admissions data, it was ranked 35th in the 2012 U.S. News and World Report ranking, and the College became the first law school to be fined by the American Bar Association for intentionally publishing false admissions data.
Prof. Brian Leiter, a University of Chicago law professor and well known for his blogs about law schools and law school rankings said that the University of Illinois College of Law is a top 20 law school. In its annual ranking of “Go-To Law Schools,” the National Law Journal has ranked the University of Illinois College of Law 16th in the number of alumni associates promoted to partner in 2011. The College of Law tied with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Emory University School of Law. Several of the law schools ranked in the Top 16 – including Harvard, Columbia, and Georgetown – graduate over twice as many students as the College of Law.
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