University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law |
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Parent school | University of the Pacific |
Established | 1924 |
School type | Private |
Dean | Francis J. Mootz III |
Location | Sacramento, California, US |
Enrollment | 416 (Full-time) 137 (Part-time) |
Faculty | 52 (Full and Part-time) 76 (Total) |
USNWR ranking | 144 (Overall) 38 (Part-time) 12 (Trial Advocacy) 25 (International Law) |
Bar pass rate | 70% |
Website | www.McGeorge.edu |
ABA profile | McGeorge School of Law |
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law is a private, American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school in the Oak Park neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the University of the Pacific and is located on the University's Sacramento campus.
Founded in 1924, the school merged with and became part of the University of the Pacific in 1966. The current dean of McGeorge School of Law is Francis J. Mootz III, formerly the William S. Boyd Professor of Law and associate dean for academic affairs and faculty development at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Former CIA General Counsel Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker stepped down on June 1, 2012, after 10 years as dean of McGeorge School of Law.
The school that eventually became McGeorge began in 1921 when Stanford Law School graduate and Standard Oil executive Verne Adrian McGeorge began teaching law students at night in downtown Sacramento, California. After its formal establishment as a school in 1924, this Sacramento Law School, subsequently renamed in Professor McGeorge's honor as the "McGeorge School of Law," merged with the University of the Pacific in 1966 and came to be known as "Pacific McGeorge." McGeorge became an integral part of the University of the Pacific in 1991.
McGeorge has been fully approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1969. As a result of its ABA accreditation, McGeorge is also approved by the Committee of Bar Examiners of The State Bar of California.
The first year curriculum at McGeorge consists of 27 units. McGeorge law students must also complete 29 units of upper-level required curriculum. Therefore, 56 units out of the 88 units to graduate are required courses. All students take the same required courses.