Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School
Parent schoolStanford University
Established1893 (1893)[1]
School typePrivate law school
Parent endowment$37.8 billion (2021)[2]
DeanPaul Brest (Interim)
LocationStanford, California, United States
37°25′27″N 122°10′04″W / 37.42417°N 122.16778°W / 37.42417; -122.16778
Enrollment572 (2020)[1]
Faculty70 (2023)[3]
USNWR ranking1st (tie) (2023)[4]
Bar pass rate98.25%
Websitelaw.stanford.edu
ABA profileStandard 509 Report

Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021, the second-lowest of any law school in the country.[5] Paul Brest currently serves as Interim Dean.

Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. Stanford Law also confers four advanced legal degrees: a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.), and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.). Each fall, Stanford Law enrolls a J.D. class of approximately 180 students, giving Stanford the smallest student body of any law school ranked in the top fourteen (T14). Stanford also maintains eleven full-time legal clinics,[6] including the nation's first and most active Supreme Court litigation clinic,[7] and offers 27 formal joint degree programs.[8]

The law school's alumni include several of the first women to occupy Chief Justice or Associate Justice posts on supreme courts: former Chief Justice of New Zealand Sian Elias, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and the late Chief Justice of Washington Barbara Durham. Other justices of supreme courts who graduated from Stanford Law include the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist, retired Chief Justice of California Supreme Court Ronald M. George, retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, and the late California Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson.

  1. ^ a b "Stanford University". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Stanford releases annual financial results for investment return, endowment". October 26, 2021. As of August 31, 2021.
  3. ^ "Stanford University Law School" Law School Admission Council, Inc. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  4. ^ "2023-2024 Best Law Schools". USNews. 2023. Retrieved 28 Feb 2024.
  5. ^ "2021 Standard 509 Information Report (2021 First Year Class)". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 16 Oct 2022.
  6. ^ "Clinics Offered". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 27 June 2015
  7. ^ "Supreme Court Litigation Clinic" Archived 2006-08-31 at the Wayback Machine. Stanford Law School. Retrieved 27 June 2015
  8. ^ "Overview of Joint Degree and Cooperative Programs". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 27 June 2015

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