Southwestern University School of Law
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| Motto | A Landmark in Legal Education |
| Established | 1911 |
| School type | Private |
| Dean | Susan Westerberg Prager |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Enrollment | 964 |
| Faculty | 160 |
| USNWR ranking | "Unranked" |
| Bar pass rate | 74% (July 2013) |
| Website | www.swlaw.edu |
| ABA profile | Southwestern Law School |
Southwestern Law School (formerly known as Southwestern University School of Law and Southwestern College of Law) is a private, ABA-accredited law school in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, with about 1,000 students. Its campus includes the Bullocks Wilshire building, an art deco National Register of Historic Places landmark built in 1929. Southwestern is an independent law school with no affiliation to any undergraduate university. It has been an American Bar Association approved law school since 1970. In 2013, Southwestern fell out of the rankings in the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings into an "unranked" category.
Southwestern Law School was founded on November 25, 1911, as the Southwestern College of Law. John J. Schumacher, its founder, intended the nonprofit institution to be a law school that reached out to women and minorities. The school is one of the oldest law schools in the state of California and the second oldest law school in Los Angeles.
Southwestern received a university charter in 1913 after it expanded to include a number of other disciplines including a business school. Southwestern's first "home" was in the Union Oil Building in downtown Los Angeles, followed by a small campus on South Hill Street, where it existed for the ensuing decades.
The Great Depression and Second World War took a severe toll on the school's enrollment, and by the end of the 1930s the law school was the only school that remained. However, as veterans returned home the school experienced a surge of interest, and in 1974, the campus was moved to the school's current location on Westmoreland Avenue in the Wilshire Center area of Los Angeles.
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