Stanford University Law School
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| Parent school | Stanford University |
| Established | 1893 |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $21.4 billion |
| Dean | M. Elizabeth Magill |
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Stanford, California, US 37°25′27″N 122°10′04″W / 37.42417°N 122.16778°WCoordinates: 37°25′27″N 122°10′04″W / 37.42417°N 122.16778°W |
| Enrollment | 572 |
| Faculty | 93 (full- and part-time), 128 (total) |
| USNWR ranking | 2 |
| Bar pass rate | 94% (ABA profile) |
| Website | www |
| ABA profile | ABA profile |
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Stanford Law School (also known as Stanford Law or SLS) is a professional graduate school of Stanford University, located in the Silicon Valley near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law is currently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the second best law school in the United States and has been ranked as one of the top three law schools, with Yale Law School and Harvard Law School, every year since 1992. Stanford Law has consistently been regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world.
Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree. Stanford Law also confers four advanced legal degrees: a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.), and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.). Each fall, Stanford Law enrolls a J.D. class of approximately 180 students, giving Stanford the smallest student body of any law school ranked in the top fourteen (T14). Stanford also maintains eleven full-time legal clinics, including the nation's first and most active Supreme Court litigation clinic, and offers 27 formal joint degree programs.
Stanford Law alumni include several of the first women to occupy Chief Justice or Associate Justice posts on supreme courts: current Chief Justice of New Zealand Sian Elias, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the late Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court Rhoda V. Lewis, and the late Chief Justice of Washington Barbara Durham. Other justices of supreme courts who graduated from Stanford Law include the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist, retired Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George, retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, and the late California Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson.
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