Concordia University School of Law
| Concordia University School of Law | |
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| Parent school |
Concordia University Portland, Oregon |
| Established | 2011, 6 years ago |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $7.2 million |
| Dean | Cathy Silak |
| Location |
Boise, Idaho, U.S. Coordinates: 43°36′43″N 116°12′07″W / 43.612°N 116.202°W |
| Enrollment | 110 |
| Faculty | 17 full-time; 31 part-time |
| Website | law.cu-portland.edu |
Concordia University School of Law is a private, non-profit, ABA Provisionally Approved law school which opened in August 2012 in Boise in the U.S. state of Idaho. Announced in 2007, the school originally planned to open in fall 2011. The first class had 75 students and the school expects to grow to 250 students when fully operational. The law school is the second in Idaho, and the first in Boise. The school is part of Concordia University, a private Lutheran school based in Portland, Oregon.
Concordia University announced it would open a law school in 2007, with the school looking at locations in Washington, California, and Idaho. In November of that year the small Lutheran school announced they were looking at Boise as the location under consideration in Idaho. Boise is the state’s most populous city and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States that did not have a law school. Proposed locations included using Boise’s Carnegie Library on a temporary basis.
The law school was originally scheduled to open in 2009, but an increase in the start-up costs from $4 million to $7 million delayed the planned opening to allow for additional fund-raising. Idaho's only law school, the University of Idaho's (UI) College of Law in Moscow, 300 miles (480 km) north, also had plans to open a campus in the city at that time. In August 2008, Concordia announced the school would be delayed until the fall of 2010, and Idaho’s Board of Education decided against allowing UI to add a full three-year program in Boise. Instead, UI would be allowed to open a program for third year students, also to open in fall 2010.
Concordia narrowed its search for a dean of the law school to two people by August 2008, and in December 2008 choose former Idaho Court of Appeals judge and Idaho Supreme Court justice Cathy Silak to lead the school. Expected to cost $7 million and take 18-months to open, the original plan called for an entering class of 70 students in fall 2010 with a faculty of 15. By December 2008 Concordia had raised $1.5 million for the law school and by 2009 had pushed the opening back to fall 2011. Concordia announced plans to buy a building at 501 Front Street in Boise in January 2010 to house the campus. The purchase was expected to close in April and be for about $2 million.
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