George Mason University Law School
| Antonin Scalia Law School | |
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Hazel Hall, Antonin Scalia Law School
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| Parent school | George Mason University |
| Established | 1979 |
| School type | Public |
| Dean | Henry N. Butler |
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Arlington, Virginia, USA 38°53′06″N 77°06′01″W / 38.88500°N 77.10028°WCoordinates: 38°53′06″N 77°06′01″W / 38.88500°N 77.10028°W |
| Enrollment | 496 |
| Website | www.law.gmu.edu |
| ABA profile | ABA Profile |
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Antonin Scalia Law School, previously George Mason University School of Law, is the law school of George Mason University, a state university in Virginia, United States. The law school is located in Arlington, roughly fifteen miles east-northeast of the university's main campus in Fairfax.
George Mason University School of Law was authorized by the Virginia General Assembly in March 1979 and was founded on July 1, 1979. The American Bar Association provisionally approved the school in the fall of 1980 and granted full approval in 1986.
As of 2016, the school had 518 students in its J.D., LL.M., JD/MBA, and JD/MPP programs. The median LSAT score among those offered admission to the full-time program for the fall 2016 entering J.D. class was 162 and the median GPA was 3.66. Students in the first-year class hold 26 advanced degrees including Ph.D.s. The passage rate for first-time takers of the Virginia bar exam in February 2017 was 100%, tying for first among Virginia's eight law schools.
On March 31, 2016, the Board of Visitors approved renaming the school after the late United States Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. The name change followed gifts of $20 million from an anonymous donor and an additional $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation conditioned on the renaming, and was announced as requiring approval by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The name change became effective on May 17, 2016.
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) for the 2015-2016 academic year at Mason Law is $49,219 for in-state students attending full-time; the total cost of attendance for non-resident students attending full-time is $64,605. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $188,965 for residents, and $248,292 for non-residents. To combat the high cost of law school, George Mason's Board of Visitors voted in 2013 to freeze tuition through the 2016-2017 academic year.
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