The University of Illinois College of Law (Illinois Law or UIUC Law) is the law school of the

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, a

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. It was established in 1897 and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees.

History

The College of Law was founded in 1897 and is a

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of the

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. The law honor society known as the

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was founded at the University of Illinois College of Law in 1902. University of Illinois College of Law is on the south end of the main University of Illinois campus in Champaign, near

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and the State Farm Center. The University of Illinois College of Law has the 14th largest

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in the United States of America, and the college has several notable

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, the

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, and

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, including: Albert E. Jenner Jr., name partner at the law firm

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from 2000 to 2008, and Philip McConnaughay, current

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of Peking University School of Transnational Law and former dean of Penn State Dickinson Law.

Investigation into manipulation of admissions data

On September 11, 2011, ''The News-Gazette'' reported that the University of Illinois College of Law posted inaccurate information on its website about the

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scores and GPAs of its incoming first-year law students. The school removed the inaccurate information and placed an assistant dean on

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. On September 19, 2011, the University of Illinois College of Law posted the corrected information on its website. The actual LSAT and GPA medians for the class of 2014 were 163 and 3.70, respectively. Two months later, the law school announced that a report commissioned from Jones Day and

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had found admission data for six of the seven previous years to have been manipulated by the assistant dean of Admissions Paul Pless, and that Pless had acted alone and would no longer work for the College.

Academics

The College of Law offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.), the

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in law, as well as the

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(LL.M) and

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(J.S.D.),

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s in law. A program that had been started with the American Bar Association in 2009 to permit certain UIUC undergraduates to enter without an LSAT was shut down in 2012 as part of the penalty for the college's falsification of admission data. The flagship

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is the ''

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''; the law school also publishes two specialized law journals, the ''Elder Law Journal'' and the ''Journal of Law, Technology & Policy'', which in 2007, ExpressO then ranked as the #4 Science & Technology law journal. The College is also the home institution for the ''

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'', and for ''Law and Philosophy''. The Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Library is the college's

. It is among the largest academic law libraries in the United States.

Employment

According to the College of Law's official 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 78.92% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment 10 months after graduation. This was then the 19th highest out of all law schools in the United States.

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under-employment score is 10.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job 10 months after graduation.

Rankings

In 1957, the ''

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'' released the first modern rankings of law schools, and included Illinois among the top 10 law schools in America. In its annual 2011 ranking of "Go-To Law Schools," '' The National Law Journal'' then ranked the University of Illinois College of Law 16th in the number of alumni associates promoted to partner. In the 2010 '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranking of American law schools, the college was ranked 21st in the country and in the 2011 ranking, it was ranked 23rd in the country. In the 2012 ranking, the college was originally ranked 23rd in the country. However, in the wake of the grades and LSAT

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scandal, that ranking fell from #23 to #35 in 2012, and dropped to 47th in 2013. In the 2014 rankings, the college rose to 40th. In 2015, it dropped one spot to 41st. In 2018, the ranking rose to 37th, and rose again to 31st in the 2020 rankings. The college's 31st place tie with a few other law schools, including Boston College and

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. In 2012, the '' National Jurist'' named the University of Illinois College of Law in its list of the 20 most innovative law schools, based on more than 40 submissions. In 2020, the popular website '' Above the Law'' ranked the college #19 in the nation. In the 2022 ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranking, the college was ranked 29th in the country tied with a few other law schools.

Alumni

Academia

* William Bennett Bizzell 1912 – fifth president of the

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and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now

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) * Ralph L. Brill – professor of law at

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and

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innovator * John E. Cribbet 1947 – accomplished

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, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, and chancellor of the University of Illinois *

Nekima Levy-Pounds Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong (' Levy-Pounds, c. 1976) is an American lawyer and social justice activist. She served as president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP from 2015 to 2016. She has led a variety of organizations that focus on iss ...

2001 – activist, former president of Minneapolis NAACP and former professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law * Philip J. McConnaughay 1978 – current dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law and former dean of Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law *

Clyde Summers Clyde Wilson Summers (November 21, 1918 – October 30, 2010) was an American lawyer and educator who is best known for his work in advocating more democratic procedures in trade union, labor unions. He helped write the Labor Management Reporting ...

1942 – labor lawyer and law professor at the

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and

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, subject of '' In re Summers'' *

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– eighteenth president of

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Judges

Federal

* Wayne Andersen 1970 –

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on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Harold Baker 1956 – United States federal judge on the

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* Charles Guy Briggle 1904 – United States federal judge on the

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* Colin S. Bruce 1989 – United States federal judge on the

* Owen McIntosh Burns 1929 – United States federal judge on the

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* James L. Foreman 1952 – United States federal judge on the

* James F. Holderman 1971 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois *

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1930 – United States federal judge on the United States Court of Claims * William F. Jung 1983 – United States federal judge on the

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* Frederick J. Kapala 1976 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Alfred Younges Kirkland, Sr. 1943 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * David Laro 1967 – senior judge on the

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* Walter C. Lindley 1910 – United States federal judge on the

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* George Michael Marovich 1954 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Prentice Henry Marshall 1967 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Frederick Olen Mercer 1924 – United States federal judge on the

* William A. Moorman 1970 – judge on the

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* Philip Godfrey Reinhard 1964 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Stanley Julian Roszkowski 1954 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois *

Fred Louis Wham Fred Louis Wham (June 15, 1884 – February 2, 1967) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Education and career Born in Marion County, Illinois, Wham received a Bachelor ...

1909 – United States federal judge on the

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* Harlington Wood, Jr. 1948 – United States federal judge on the

State

* Thomas R. Chiola 1977 – judge of the

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, first

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elected official in Illinois * Arno H. Denecke 1939 – Chief Justice

Oregon Supreme Court The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States.Byron O. House 1926 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois * Lloyd A. Karmeier 1964 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois *

Ray Klingbiel Raymond I. Klingbiel (March 1, 1901 – January 18, 1973) was an Illinois lawyer and judge who twice served as the Supreme Court of Illinois, Chief Justice of Illinois (1956–1957, and 1964–1967) during sixteen years as justice of that court. I ...

1924 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois * Howard C. Ryan – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois * Roy Solfisburg 1940 (LL.B) – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois * Robert C. Underwood 1939 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois

Other

* Antonio Herman de Vasconcellos e Benjamin (

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) – judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil * R. Grant Hammond (

) – judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal

Politics

* Al Salvi 1985 – Illinois House,

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candidate,

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of Salvi & Maher, LLC * John Bayard Anderson 1946 – U.S. Congressman and presidential candidate * William W. Arnold 1901 – U.S. Congressman *

Jason Barickman Jason Barickman (born May 1, 1975), is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 53rd district since January 2013. He previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 105th district from 2011 to 2013 ...

2006 –

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* Terry Lee Bruce 1969 – U.S. Congressman * John Porter East 1959 – U.S. Senator * Tom Fink 1952 – Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives; Mayor of Anchorage * Otis Ferguson Glenn 1910 – U.S. Senator * William J. Graham 1893 – U.S. Congressman * William Perry Holaday 1905 – U.S. Congressman *

1930 – U.S. Congressman * Jesse Jackson, Jr. 1993 – U.S. Congressman * Tim Johnson 1972 – U.S. Congressman * B. J. Pak –

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; Member of the

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* Samuel H. Shapiro –

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* James C. Soper 1931 - Illinois State Senate * William L. Springer 1935 – U.S. Congressman *

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1994 –

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and the Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs on the

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presidential transition team * Sheadrick Turner - Illinois House of Representatives *

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1937 – U.S. Congressman *

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1947 – U.S. Congressman

Other

* Leonard V. Finder –

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and

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

Michael Fumento Michael A. Fumento (born 1960) is an American author, analyst, attorney, and investigative journalist who currently resides in the Philippines. Life and career Fumento grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He is the son of Tobey and Rocco Fumento, the ...

(Law) – journalist and author *

Reginald C. Harmon Reginald C. Harmon (February 5, 1900 – October 23, 1992) was a Major General in the United States Air Force and served as its first Judge Advocate General. At the age of 29, he was elected as the mayor of Urbana, Illinois. Background Reginal ...

1927 – First United States Air Force Judge Advocate General * Albert E. Jenner, Jr. 1930 (

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) – one of the name partners at the law firm of

* Thomas R. Lamont 1972 –

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* Paul M. Lisnek 1983 – author, television and radio

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host and interviewer *

Michael Masser Michael William Masser (March 24, 1941 – July 9, 2015) was an American songwriter, composer and producer of popular music. Early life Born to a Jewish family in Chicago to Ester Huff and William Masser, he attended the University of Illinois ...

– composer and producer of

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* Jerome W. Van Gorkom 1941 – CEO of TransUnion, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management 1982–83, best known as the named party in the landmark corporate law case of '' Smith v. Van Gorkom'', 488 A.2d 858 ( Del. 1985). * Josh Whitman, 2008 –

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at the

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, former NFL player

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Illinois Law, University of Law schools in Illinois Educational institutions established in 1897 1897 establishments in Illinois

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