Type | Private |
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Established | 1870 |
Dean | Wendy C. Perdue (since July 2011) |
Academic staff
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37 full-time, 60 adjunct |
Students | ~500 |
Location | Richmond, Virginia, USA |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | law.richmond.edu |
Coordinates: 37°34′38″N 77°32′19.2″W / 37.57722°N 77.538667°W
The University of Richmond School of Law (T.C. Williams School of Law), a school of the University of Richmond, is located in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond Law is considered "highly selective" by US News & World Report,top tier by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, among the top twenty law schools by the National Jurist, and one of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools of 2016.
One of the three highest ranked small private law schools—alongside Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School and W&L Law—with approximately 150 J.D. candidates per class year, the University of Richmond School of Law has full accreditation by all recognized standardizing agencies in the United States, as a member of the Association of American Law Schools on the American Bar Association registry.
Richmond Law is also regionally accredited by the Virginia State Board of Bar Examiners, and is the #1 alma mater of judges in the state. Above the Mason–Dixon line, U of R Law's Juris Doctor degree is fully accredited by the Regents of the University of the State of New York; below, Richmond Law is among Above the Law's top ten Law Schools of the South. Located near the border of America's cultural demarcation line, the University of Richmond campus can be found on 350 acres (1.4 km2) located about six miles (10 km) west of the center of the city of Richmond, Virginia.