Motto | Juncta Juvant ("Strength in Unity") |
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Type | Public (state university) |
Established | 1833 |
Dean | Jennifer S. Bard |
Students | 385 |
Location | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
Campus | Urban |
Website | www.law.uc.edu |
The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continually running law school in the United States and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools. Then-dean and future 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft (1880), merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896.
The school has produced both a President of the United States (William Howard Taft) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (both Taft and Willis Van Devanter). The school has also produced a Vice President of the United States, Charles G. Dawes, and a Secretary of Commerce, Charles W. Sawyer.
U.S. News & World Report, perhaps the most well-known publisher of unofficial law school rankings, listed Cincinnati's full-time Juris Doctor program as 60th in the nation in 2016.
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UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The College of Law is located in Cincinnati, Ohio which is the 64th largest city in the United States--List of United States cities by population, while the Cincinnati-Middletown metropolitan area is the 24th largest in the country by population--United States metropolitan areas. The Greater Cincinnati area is home to over 685 law firms. Notably, Cincinnati's downtown is the site for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit courthouse, and also the courthouse for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.