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University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Motto
Fiat lux (Latin) Let there be light (English)
Parent school
University of California, Berkeley
Established
November 12, 1912; 111 years ago (November 12, 1912)[1]: 65–66
School type
Public law school
Parent endowment
$7.4 billion (2023)[2]
Dean
Erwin Chemerinsky
Location
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Enrollment
916[3]
Faculty
119 (full- and part-time)[3]
USNWR ranking
12th (2024)[3]
Bar pass rate
95.5% (2021)[4]
Website
law.berkeley.edu
ABA profile
Standard 509 Report
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law[5] (branded as Berkeley Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name.[6] This came from its initial building, the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law, named for John Henry Boalt. This name was transferred to an entirely new law school building in 1951 but was removed in 2020.[7]
The Law Building and the South Pavilion (in foreground), which was completed in 2011.
In 2019, 98 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment within nine months, with a median salary of $190,000.[8] Of all the law schools in California, Berkeley had the highest bar passage rates in 2021 (95.5%) and 2022 (92.2%).[4][9] The school offers J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and Ph.D. degrees, and enrolls approximately 320 to 330 J.D. students in each entering class, annually, with each class being further broken down into smaller groups that take courses together.
Berkeley Law alumni include notable federal judges, politicians, Fortune 500 executives, noted legal academics and civil rights experts. Prominent alumni include Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chair of the Federal Reserve G. William Miller, President of the International Court of Justice Joan Donoghue, Mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee, Dallas Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery, and Nuremberg Trials prosecutor Whitney Robson Harris.
^Epstein, Sandra P. (1997). Law at Berkeley: The His of Boalt Hall. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press. ISBN 0-87772-375-3.
^"Annual Endowment Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023; p.3" (PDF). Chief Investment Officer of the Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
^ abc"Best Law Schools". U.S. News & World Report.
^ ab"General Statistics Report" (PDF). www.calbar.ca.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
^UC Regents, UC Berkeley School of Law. "Identity Resources". Retrieved 2024-03-13.
^Warren, Earl (1977). The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. p. 42.
^Kell, Gretchen (20 January 2020). "UC Berkeley removes racist John Boalt's name from law school". Berkeley News. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
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