Penn State Law
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| Parent school | Pennsylvania State University |
| Established | 1834 (as The Dickinson School of Law) |
| School type | Law School |
| Endowment | $24.5 million |
| Dean | Hari M. Osofsky |
| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Enrollment | 402 |
| Faculty | 61 |
| USNWR ranking | 82 |
| Website | https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu |
Penn State Law, located in University Park, Pennsylvania, is one of two separately accredited law schools of the Pennsylvania State University. Penn State Law offers J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees. The school also offers a joint J.D./M.B.A. with the Smeal College of Business, as well as joint degrees with other graduate programs at Penn State.
Penn State Law traces its roots to the founding of The Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Penn State and The Dickinson School of Law merged in 2000, and, until fall 2014, Penn State's Dickinson School of Law operated as a single law school with two campuses—one in Carlisle and one on Penn State's University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 2014, Penn State received approval from the American Bar Association to operate the two campuses as two separate and distinct law schools, both of which share the history of The Dickinson School of Law: Dickinson Law, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Penn State Law, in University Park, Pennsylvania.
U.S. News & World Report, in its 2018 rankings of Best Graduate Schools, ranked Penn State Law 82nd among 197 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association.
Penn State Law is housed in the The Lewis Katz Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The building opened for classes on January 9, 2009. The $60 million, 114,000-square foot building is the first academic facility to be built on the west side of Park Avenue on the University Park campus. The building is adjacent to the Penn State Arboretum.
The Lewis Katz Building is LEED certified and equipped with advanced high-definition digital audiovisual telecommunications capacity that enables real-time collaborative projects and programs with schools and institutions worldwide. The second floor includes the glass-enclosed library, with a two-story information commons, four group study rooms and 11 offices. Library spaces comprise about 50 percent of the building.
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