Texas A&M University School of Law
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1989 |
| Dean | Andrew Morriss |
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Academic staff
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39 |
| Students | 735 |
| Location |
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. 32°44′54″N 97°19′32″W / 32.748466°N 97.325559°WCoordinates: 32°44′54″N 97°19′32″W / 32.748466°N 97.325559°W |
| Website | law |
Texas A&M University School of Law (previously Texas Wesleyan University School of Law) is a public, ABA-accredited law school located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The law school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and offers the juris doctor degree through its full-time, part-time, and evening programs.
Founded in 1989, the law school began as the DFW School of Law in Irving, Texas, then became the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in 1992. Texas A&M University acquired the law school in 2013.
On June 26, 2012, Texas Wesleyan University and Texas A&M University reached an agreement whereby the university would take over ownership and operational control of the School, to be renamed the Texas A&M University School of Law. The agreement was finalized on August 12, 2013, with Texas A&M purchasing the school and all its physical and licensing assets for $73 million.
The school confers the Juris Doctor degree upon students who satisfactorily complete a 90-hour course of study, rigorous writing requirement, and a 30-hour pro bono requirement. For July 2015, the school had a Texas Bar Exam pass rate of 73.96%, placing it sixth in the state of Texas behind University of Texas School of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law, Baylor Law School, and the University of Houston Law Center. In 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office approved a clinic at the law school after the school had shown a strong intellectual property program. The school has expanded that program, doubling that faculty in 2015.
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