Florida International University College of Law
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| Established | 2000 |
| School type | Public |
| Parent endowment | $138 million |
| Dean | R. Alexander Acosta |
| Location | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Enrollment | 475 (Fall 2015) |
| Faculty | 28 |
| USNWR ranking | 102 |
| Bar pass rate | 84.6% (February 2016) |
| Website | law |
The Florida International University College of Law is the law school of Florida International University, located in Miami, Florida in the United States. The law school is accredited by the American Bar Association, and is the only public law school in Southern Florida.
Six times in its history, the FIU College of Law has ranked first in the state of Florida with the state's highest bar-passing rates (February 2005, February 2007, February 2009, July 2011, July 2015, and February 2016). In 2007, the school also ranked first in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam with a 96% passage rate.
According to FIU's 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 70.1% of the Class of 2014 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, with 79% of graduates seeking employment securing full-time, long-term legal jobs.
Florida International University worked towards the creation of a public law school in South Florida for many years, beginning with the 1986 appointment of Modesto A. Maidique as University president. Maidique met resistance from the Florida Board of Regents, which had a number of graduates of other Florida law schools, and opposed the opening of any new public law schools in the state. The establishment of this institution was finally realized in 2000, when Governor Jeb Bush pushed the project through the state legislature, along with the re-establishment of a law school at Florida A & M University.
Shortly thereafter, the College of Law hired Leonard Strickman as its inaugural Dean. Strickman, a Yale Law School graduate, had previously served as Dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law and the University of Arkansas School of Law, and had been a member of the ABA Accreditation Committee during the 1990s, and had chaired 15 ABA accreditation site visits.
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