University of Oregon School of Law
| University of Oregon School of Law | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Mens agitat molem (Latin) Minds Move Mountains |
| Parent school | University of Oregon |
| Established | 1884 |
| School type | Public |
| Parent endowment | US $ 491 million |
| Dean | Michael Moffitt |
| Location |
Eugene, Oregon, United States 44°02′35″N 123°04′09″W / 44.04297°N 123.06929°WCoordinates: 44°02′35″N 123°04′09″W / 44.04297°N 123.06929°W |
| Enrollment | J.D. 528 students; LL.M. 10 students |
| Faculty | 37 full-time |
| USNWR ranking | 78 |
| Bar pass rate | 84% |
| Website | law.uoregon.edu |
| ABA profile | University of Oregon School of Law Profile |
The University of Oregon School of Law is a public law school in the U.S. state of Oregon. Housed in the Knight Law Center, it is Oregon's only state funded law school. The school, founded in 1884, is located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, on the corner of 15th and Agate streets, overlooking Hayward Field.
Oregon Law was founded in 1884 in Portland, Oregon. Richard R. Thornton organized the department that began as a two-year program with three classes per week. In 1906, the course of study was expanded to three years, and in April 1915, the school's board of regents ordered that the program be moved to Eugene as part of a consolidation program within the university. Though the school moved, some of the faculty remained in Portland and started the Northwest College of Law, now the Lewis & Clark Law School. In 1923, the school was approved by the American Bar Association (ABA), one of the first 39 schools to earn that distinction in the initial year of the ABA approval of law schools.
In 1931, Wayne Morse became dean. Three years later, the law school organized a chapter of the national law school honor society, the Order of the Coif. In 1938, the law school moved to Fenton Hall. In 1939, the law school graduated Minoru Yasui, who later took his challenge to the military curfew on Japanese Americans during World War II all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
In 1941, Orlando John Hollis became acting dean. His appointment became permanent in 1945 when Morse resigned to run for the U.S. Senate. During the war years, many law students were called to service. In 1944, there were no graduating students; in 1945, only one student graduated. After the war's conclusion, the school admitted every returning veteran who sought a legal education: out of 26 students who graduated in 1948, 25 had served in World War II.
The post-war era was marked by the Oregon legislature's adoption of law professor Kenneth O'Connell's Oregon Revised Statutes. Professor O'Connell was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 1958, and later became its chief justice.
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