Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
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| Motto | Per Veritatem Vis |
| Established | 1867 |
| School type | Private |
| Endowment | $158 million |
| Dean | Nancy Staudt |
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Enrollment | 723 |
| Faculty | 134 (Fall) 129 (Spring) |
| USNWR ranking | 18 |
| Website | law |
Washington University School of Law (WashULaw) is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. The law school is one of the seven graduate and undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1867, the School of Law is the oldest continually operating private law school west of the Mississippi River. Originally, the law school was located in downtown St. Louis, but it relocated in 1904 to the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and is housed in Anheuser-Busch Hall. It is ranked 18th among the 203 American Bar Association approved law schools by U.S. News & World Report. Its clinical training and trial advocacy programs have consistently ranked in the top ten according to the same source.
For the class entering in the fall of 2016, there were 228 matriculants. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2015 entering class were 160 and 169, respectively, with a median of 168. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.15 and 3.81, respectively, with a median of 3.67.
The 2015 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Law Schools" ranked the Washington University School of Law:
Recent Leiter’s Law School Rankings placed the law school:
GraduatePrograms.com recently ranked Washington University as number 1 for social life.
Most of the students at Washington University School of Law are enrolled in the Juris Doctor (JD) program. JD students are required to take 86 semester hours of credit in order to graduate. In the first year of law school all students are required to take one Semester each of Contracts, Property, Torts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law. Additionally, in the Fall of their first year all students are required to take Legal Practice I and Legal Research Methodologies I, and in the Spring of their first year students are required to take Legal Practice II and Legal Research Methodologies II. For the entering class of 2016 - 2017 all first year students took Civil Procedure in the Spring; the rest of the first year doctrinal courses were offered in both Fall and Spring. It remains to be seen if that scheduling practice will continue in the future. The second and third year offer more flexibility in planning the student's curriculum as there are only two mandatory classes (a class from the ethics curriculum and one seminar). In addition to their substantive coursework, many second and third year students participate in moot court, a scholarly publication, a clinic, or an externship.
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