Rutgers University School of Law
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| Motto | Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra |
| Parent school | Rutgers University |
| Established | 1908 |
| School type | Public |
| Dean | Michael T. Cahill and Ronald Chen (co-deans) |
| Location | Camden and Newark, New Jersey, United States |
| Enrollment | 1,121 873 (full-time), 237 (part-time) |
| Faculty | 308 |
| USNWR ranking | 62 (full-time) 16 (part-time) |
| Bar pass rate | 74.03% |
| Website | https://law.rutgers.edu/ |
| ABA profile | Rutgers Law School Profile |
Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest public law school in the United States by enrollment and the 10th largest overall, with each class in Rutgers Law's three-year J.D. program enrolling approximately 300 students. Founded in 1908, Rutgers offers the J.D. and foreign lawyer J.D. Rutgers has over 20,000 alumni practicing in all 50 U.S. states. In 2015, Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Rutgers School of Law–Camden were unified into a single law school with two campuses.
U.S. News & World Report, in its 2018 rankings of Best Graduate Schools, ranked Rutgers Law School 62nd among 197 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association.Above the Law ranked Rutgers 43rd on its 2017 list of top law schools
According to Rutgers Law School's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 93.7% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required or JD-advantage employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners.
Rutgers Law School is the oldest law school in New Jersey. Rutgers Law School has its in the roots in three law schools. The first was founded October 5, 1908 as the New Jersey Law School, the second, the South Jersey Law School founded in 1926 by Collingswood, New Jersey mayor and businessmen Arthur E. Armitage, Sr. and the final was Mercer Beasley School of Law named for a former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and founded in 1926 by several prominent Newark attorneys.
The New Jersey Law School was founded as a for-profit law school by Richard D. Currier, a New York lawyer and graduate of Yale and New York Law School. Currier was joined by Charles M. Mason, a New Jersey attorney, who served as dean until his death in 1928. The school originally had only three faculty members 30 students with classes on the 4th floor of the Prudential Insurance Home Office in Newark for their first classes. In December 1908, the school was moved to a large Victorian townhouse at 33 East Park Street also in Newark. From its founding, women were to be admitted on “equal basis to men.”
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