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Law schools in this list are categorized by whether they are currently active, proposed, or closed; within each section they are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Most of these law schools grant the Juris Doctor degree, which is the typical
first professional degree A professional degree, formerly known in the US as a first professional degree, is a degree that prepares someone to work in a particular profession, practice, or industry sector often meeting the academic requirements for licensure or accreditati ...
in law in the United States. Law schools are nationally accredited by the
American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, the ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of aca ...
(ABA), and graduates of these schools may generally sit for the
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in any state. There are 199 ABA accredited law schools, along with one law school provisionally accredited by the ABA.
Whittier Law School Whittier Law School was a law school in Costa Mesa, California founded in 1966. The law school was part of Whittier College, a private institution. After several years being ranked among the poorest-performing law schools in the United States ba ...
, Arizona Summit Law School and
Concordia University School of Law Concordia University School of Law was a private law school in Boise, Idaho. It admitted its first class of 75 students in August 2012. The school was part of Concordia University, a private Lutheran university based in Portland, Oregon. Concor ...
are the most recent law school closures. The latter two having discontinued their legal programs in 2019, while the former closed in the summer of 2020. The ABA revoked the accreditation of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2019. In addition, individual state legislatures or bar examiners, like the State Bar of California, may maintain a separate accreditation system which is open to non-ABA accredited schools. The California State Bar also accredits law schools, which the California Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) recognizes. Also, the CBE allows registered "Unaccredited" schools to operate and students of those schools are eligible to take the California Bar Examination upon graduation. No correspondence or online law schools are accredited by the ABA or by state bar examiners. Law Schools However, twelve correspondence and online law schools, although not accredited, are registered by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. This means that the graduates of these distance learning law schools can sit for the California Bar Examination and, under varying circumstances, the bar exams in many other states.


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1 – Provisional ABA accreditation expired in June 2011
2 – Provisional accreditation via the
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History of the American legal profession The History of the American legal profession covers the work, training, and professional activities of lawyers from the colonial era to the present. Lawyers grew increasingly powerful in the colonial era as experts in the English common law, which ...
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Law school in the United States A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree. Law schools in the U.S. confer the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is a ...
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Legal education in the United States Legal education in the United States generally refers to a graduate degree, the completion of which makes a graduate eligible to sit for an examination for a license to practice as a Lawyer. Around 60 percent of those who complete a law degree ty ...
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Law school rankings in the United States Law school rankings are a specific subset of college and university rankings dealing specifically with law schools. Like college and university rankings, law school rankings can be based on empirical data, subjectively-perceived qualitative data ...
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List of law school GPA curves Many, or perhaps most, law schools in the United States grade on a norm-referenced grading curve. The process generally works within each class, where the instructor grades each exam, and then ranks the exams against each other, adding to and sub ...
* List of law schools attended by United States Supreme Court justices *
Catholic University of America School of Canon Law The School of Canon Law is the only faculty of canon law of the Catholic Church, Catholic canon law in the United States. It is one of the twelve schools at The Catholic University of America, located in Washington, D.C.List of ABA approved law schoolsLaw Schools
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Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...