Willamette University College of Law
| Willamette University College of Law | |
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| Motto | The First University in the West |
| Parent school | Willamette University |
| Established | 1883 |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | US$285 million |
| Dean | Curtis Bridgeman |
| Location |
Salem, Oregon, USA 44°56′13″N 123°02′01″W / 44.936932°N 123.03357°WCoordinates: 44°56′13″N 123°02′01″W / 44.936932°N 123.03357°W |
| Enrollment | 312 FT, 6 PT (2015) |
| Faculty | 52 (2014) |
| USNWR ranking | 118 |
| Bar pass rate | 72.3% |
| Website | www.willamette.edu/law |
| ABA profile | Willamette University College of Law Profile |
Willamette University College of Law is a private law school located in Salem, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1842, Willamette University is the oldest university in the Western United States. The College of Law, which was founded in 1883 and is the oldest law school in the Pacific Northwest, has approximately 30 law professors and enrolls about 300 students, with about 125 of those of students enrolled in their first year of law school. The campus is located across the street from the Oregon State Capitol and the Oregon Supreme Court Building.
Housed in the Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center, Willamette's College of Law offers both full-time and part-time enrollment for the juris doctorate (JD) degree, joint-degree programs, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) program. The joint-degree programs allow students to earn both a JD and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) concurrently in a four-year program, or complete a bachelor and JD in six years. Willamette Law's oldest legal journal is the Willamette Law Review, which started in 1960 and is housed in the Oregon Civic Justice Center. The center is a community outreach center housed in a renovated library that Willamette opened in 2008. According to Willamette's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 61.7% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
In July 1866, Willamette University's trustees formed a committee to explore the possibility of a legal department. At that time, legal education was traditionally taught as an apprenticeship in which those wishing to be lawyers would study under an existing attorney for several years before being allowed to pass the bar. Although the school did not begin a legal department in 1866, Willamette did confer a Doctor of Laws degree on Matthew P. Deady, who later helped establish the University of Oregon School of Law, Oregon’s second law school.
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