Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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| Motto | צדק צדק תרדף Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof (English: "Justice, justice, shall you seek") |
| Parent school | Yeshiva University |
| Established | 1976 |
| School type | Private |
| Dean | Melanie Leslie, Dean and Professor of Law |
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New York City, New York, United States 40°44′05″N 73°59′40″W / 40.734856°N 73.994309°WCoordinates: 40°44′05″N 73°59′40″W / 40.734856°N 73.994309°W |
| Enrollment | 1,144 (JD & LLM) |
| Faculty | 85~ |
| Website | www.cardozo.yu.edu |
| ABA profile | Profile |
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The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University, located in New York City. The school is named for Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Cardozo's performance as a young school has led some to characterize Cardozo as a "rising star" among law schools. Among the top 100 law schools, only three schools are younger than Cardozo, which graduated its first class in 1979. Cardozo is currently ranked 74th by U.S. News and World Report ranking of law schools. Its intellectual property program was ranked 7th, and its dispute resolution program was ranked 6th.
The school introduced the Cardozo Data Law Initiative in 2013, creating a startup technology clinic building its program in business, technology and law. Also notable is the FAME Center for fashion, art, media and entertainment law, which was established in 2014. The school is also home to the Innocence Project, run by Cardozo Professor Barry Scheck, which has used DNA profiling to help free innocent prisoners. The project's work has been instrumental in some high-profile cases. In 1999 Cardozo became a member of the Order of the Coif, an honor society for law scholars. Cardozo has seven faculty members who have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and Cardozo has had two graduates chosen to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. Cardozo was the second U.S. law school to secure an invitation to The European Law Moot Court Competition, and the first American law school to be invited twice consecutively. Many of Cardozo's 12,000 alumni reside in the New York metropolitan area, while many pursue their careers internationally and can be found across the country. In 2013, 88% of the law school's first-time test takers passed the bar exam, placing the law school sixth-best among New York's 15 law schools. According to Cardozo's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 54.3% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
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