UCLA School of Law

UCLA School of Law
UCLA School of Law's south entrance facing Charles E. Young Drive East
Motto	Fiat lux (Latin)
Parent school	University of California
Established	1949
School type	Public
Parent endowment	$2,810,319,000 (June 30, 2013)
Dean	Jennifer Mnookin (June 2015)
Location	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Enrollment	1,011
Faculty	116–138
USNWR ranking	17
Bar pass rate	88%
Website	www.law.ucla.edu
ABA profile	[1]

The University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, also referred to as UCLA School of Law and UCLA Law, is the law school of UCLA, located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law was the first public law school in Southern California and the youngest top-ranked law school in the nation. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report ranked UCLA Law tied at No. 16, and the school has consistently ranked between 15th and 17th since 2009. Its Class of 2013 had a bar passage rate of 88 percent, the second highest in California behind Stanford. The student to faculty ratio is 10.4 to 1.

Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law is one of five law schools within the University of California system. L. Dale Coffman became the school's first dean and recruited Harvard dean Roscoe Pound to become one of its first professors. The school was forced to operate in a Quonset hut for its first two years until a proper building was constructed. In September 1949, Pound insisted on delivering the school's first keynote address in the Latin language at the Quonset hut.

The UCLA Law Review, the law school's flagship scholarly journal, was first published in 1953. From 1971 to 1983, UCLA School of Law published the Alaska Law Review, a publication dedicated to the legal issues that pertain to Alaskans. Additionally, the first scholarly journal in the nation focused on issues affecting Latinos, the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review, was first published in 1972 as the Chicano Law Review.

The school offers standard Juris Doctor degrees in addition to notable programs of specialization within the schools. Students can elect to specialize in Business Law and Policy, Entertainment Law, Public Interest Law, Critical Race Studies, and Law and Philosophy. The roughly 300 students who begin Law School at UCLA every year are divided into sections to encourage a sense of community. Students take all of their first year courses with their sections.