Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
| Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law | |
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| Established | 1999 |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $28.959 million |
| Dean | Leticia Diaz |
| Location | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Enrollment | 753 |
| Faculty | 56 |
| Bar pass rate | 35.9% (February 2016) |
| Website | www.barry.edu/law/ |
The Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law (also known as Barry Law) is located in Orlando, Florida. The school is an academic college of Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Barry Law offers various programs for full-time and part-time students, including a three-year daytime program and a four-year extended studies program in the evening for working students.
The February 2016 bar passage rate was below 35.9%. The July 2015 bar passage rate was 50.7 and was 50% in February 2015.
The Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law is situated on a 20-acre (81,000 m2) campus in Orange County, Florida directly east of the Orlando city limits and is located about a 15 minute drive from the Orlando downtown core.
The School of Law facilities includes the Dwayne O. Andreas Law Center Building; the Legal Advocacy Center; the Moot Court Building; a faculty office building; the Euliano Law Library; Cafe, and buildings housing the school's legal clinic and bookstore. There is no campus housing.
The current school of law was originally established as one of the three colleges of the University of Orlando (originally chartered under the name of Florida Technical University), the other two schools being graduate programs in business and education, the university had no undergraduate students. The founder and first president of the University of Orlando was Dr. Neil R. Euliano who was at the time the owner of the for-profit Florida Technical College based in Orlando. Dr. Euliano, who had operated for-profit trade schools starting in 1982, established the non-profit University of Orlando in 1993 and its law school in 1995. The University of Orlando started its inaugural law school class on September 18, 1995. The first year the law school had only evening and weekend courses and a full-time faculty of four professors. The charter class began their studies at the for-profit Florida Technical College's campus.
The law school applied for A.B.A. accreditation in 1998. The A.B.A. visited the law school campus on March 1, 1998. Later in March 1998, the board of trustees removed the law school's Dean, Wallace M. Rudolph and appointed Stanley M. Talcott, a faculty member, as the law school's third dean. In July 1998 the A.B.A. denied the law school's application for accreditation.
Dr. Euliano resigned from the University of Orlando in September 1998, after a consultant concluded that its law school would stand a better chance of getting accredited if he left. Dr. Euliano was advised that his dual role as the school's main financial backer and the university's president may be as a conflict of interest. The dean of the university's business school, Dr. James L. Chase, was appointed to serve as the university's interim president.
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