University of Arkansas Law School
| University of Arkansas School of Law | |
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| Parent school | University of Arkansas |
| Established | 1924 |
| School type | Public |
| Endowment | US$84.2 million |
| Parent endowment | US$939.8 million |
| Dean | Stacy L. Leeds |
| Location |
Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA 36°04′11″N 94°10′29″W / 36.06972°N 94.17480°WCoordinates: 36°04′11″N 94°10′29″W / 36.06972°N 94.17480°W |
| Enrollment | 410 |
| Faculty | 58 |
| USNWR ranking | 61 |
| Website | law |
| ABA profile | Arkansas School of Law Profile |
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The University of Arkansas School of Law is the law school of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a state university. It has around 445 students enrolled in its Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Law (LL.M) programs and is home to the nation's only LL.M in agricultural law program. The School of Law is one of two law schools in the state of Arkansas; the other is the William H. Bowen School of Law (University of Arkansas at Little Rock).
According to the University of Arkansas School of Law's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 68% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
The School of Law was founded in 1924. The founding dean was Julian Waterman, a Dumas, Arkansas native and University of Chicago Law School graduate who led the school through its first 19 years, until his death in 1943.
The School met initially in the bottom floor of Old Main, and was approved by the American Bar Association two years later, in 1926. In 1927, the first class, consisting of ten students, graduated.
Over the next several decades, as the law school grew in size, it moved to larger accommodations. The 1930s saw a move to the Chemistry Building just to the southeast of Old Main, and then into Waterman Hall, the first dedicated law school construction project, in the 1950s. The latter half of the 20th century saw additions added to Waterman Hall to form the Robert A. Leflar Law Center.
On February 2, 1948, the University of Arkansas School of Law became the first Southern white university to accept an African-American student since Reconstruction. Silas H. Hunt, a World War II veteran who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and following the conclusion of the war had completed an undergraduate degree in English at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College applied to multiple law schools in 1947. He chose to seek entry at the Arkansas School of Law to challenge the system of racial segregation established in Arkansas at the time. Accompanied by his attorney, Howard Flowers, Hunt met with the dean of the law school, Robert A. Leflar, who reviewed Hunt's application. Leflar was impressed and accepted Hunt's application to the law school. For a semester, Hunt attended the law school until succumbing to illness, and dying in a veteran's hospital on April 22, 1949, in Springfield, Missouri.
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