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University of Cincinnati College of Law

Coordinates: 39°07′45″N 84°31′12″W / 39.12905°N 84.52010°W / 39.12905; -84.52010
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University of Cincinnati College of Law
MottoJuncta Juvant (Latin)
"Strength in Unity"
Parent schoolUniversity of Cincinnati
Established1833; 191 years ago (1833)
School typePublic law school
DeanHaider Ala Hamoudi
LocationCincinnati, Ohio, USA
39.12905°N 84.52010°W
USNWR ranking78th (tie) (2024)[1]
Websitewww.law.uc.edu

The University of Cincinnati College of Law (UC Law or Cincinnati Law) has the distinction of being Ohio’s first law school and the fourth oldest law school in the United States. The College of Law (or Cincinnati Law) is the law school of the University of Cincinnati, a public research university in Cincinnati and the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati with an annual enrollment of over 50,000 students.  

History

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The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously operating law school in the United States — after Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Yale — and the first in the nation's interior. In 1900, it was a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools.[2] Then-dean (and future 27th President of the United States) William Howard Taft (1880) merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. Its notable alumni include two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Willis Van Devanter and Taft, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his presidency. Additionally, Jimmy Nippert, the namesake of the university's Nippert Stadium, was a student at UC Law at the time of his death in 1923.[3]

University of Cincinnati Law School (2022)

Until August 2022, the College of Law was located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati. Since August 2022, the College of Law has been located in a new building on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive W and Campus Green Dr. The new premises were named the 11th best law school campus in the country by preLaw Magazine.[4]

Academics

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Degrees Offered

The Juris Doctor (JD) degree is offered, along with four joint degree programs, including a JD/MBA with the Lindner College of Business, a JD/MA Womens Gender & Sexuality Studies (first in the nation) with UC’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a JD/Master of Community Planning with the  School of Planning in the prestigious College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, and a JD/MA or JD/PhD with the School of Public and International Affairs.  

Cincinnati Law also offers an LLM (Master of Laws) in the US Legal System for international attorneys. Graduate certificates in US Law are also available.

U.S. News & World Report, listed University of Cincinnati College of Law as the No.78th law school out of 196 in Best Law Schools. in the nation in 2024.[5]

UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Haider Ala Hamoudi Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, College of Law

Deans

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Dean[6][7] Years Served
Timothy Walker 1833–1843
William S. Groesbeck 1844–1869
Charles L. Telford
Maskell S. Curwen 1850–1868
Rotated among faculty 1869–1873
J. Bryant Walker 1873–1874
Rufus King 1875–1880
Jacob D. Cox 1880–1897
William Howard Taft 1897–1900
Gustavus H. Wald 1900–1902
William P. Rogers 1902–1916
Albert B. Benedict 1916–1926
Merton L. Ferson 1926–1946
Frank S. Rowley 1946–1952
Roscoe L. Barrow 1952–1965
Claude S. Sowle 1965–1969
Samuel S. Wilson 1969–1970
1973*
1974–1978
Edward A. Mearns, Jr. 1970–1973
Victor E. Schwartz 1973–1974*
Jorge L. Carro 1978–1979*
Gordon A. Christenson 1979–1986
Thomas Gerety 1986–1989
Joseph P. Tomain 1989–1990*
1990–2005
Louis D. Bilionis 2005–2015
Jennifer S. Bard 2015–2017
Verna L. Williams 2017–2019**
2019–2022
Michael Whiteman 2022–2023**
Haider Ala Hamoudi 2023–present

*Acting
**Interim

Employment

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According to University of Cincinnati's 2022 ABA-required disclosures, 80% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[8]

Notable alumni

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Main article: List of University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni

References

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  1. ^ "University of Cincinnati". U.S. News & World Report – Best Law Schools. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  2. ^ "History". University of Cincinnati College of Law. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Complete story of how UC's Nippert Stadium got its namesake".
  4. ^ "PreLaw magazine Spring 2022".
  5. ^ "University of Cincinnati Main Campus". premium.usnews.com.
  6. ^ "College of Law Deans". University of Cincinnati College of Law.
  7. ^ "Haider Ala Hamoudi named dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law". 9 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Standard 509 Disclosure".
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