Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | |
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Parent school | Yeshiva University |
Established | 1976 |
School type | Private law school |
Dean | Melanie Leslie [1] |
Location | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. 40°44′05″N73°59′40″W / 40.734856°N 73.994309°W |
Enrollment | 996 (JD, LLM & JSD) [2] |
Faculty | 191 [3] |
USNWR ranking | 61 (2024) [4] |
Bar pass rate | 94% [5] |
Website | cardozo.yu.edu |
ABA profile | |
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The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University in New York City. Founded in 1976 and now located on Fifth Avenue near Union Square in Lower Manhattan, the school is named for Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Cardozo graduated its first class in 1979. [6] An LL.M. program was established in 1998. Cardozo is nondenominational and has a secular curriculum, in contrast to some of Yeshiva University's undergraduate programs. Around 320 students begin the J.D. program per year, of whom about 57% are women. [7] In addition, there are about 60–70 LL.M. students each year. [8]
For the class entering in 2022, Cardozo accepted 33.80% of applicants, with 27.12% of those accepted enrolling, the average enrollee having a 164 LSAT score and 3.76 undergraduate GPA. [9]
Cardozo is home to academic centers including the FAME Center for fashion, arts, media & entertainment; the Innocence Project; the Florsheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy; the Data Law Initiative; the Blockchain Project; Cardozo/Google Patent Diversity Project; the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights; and the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance.
Cardozo's faculty are notably productive in their scholarship. They were ranked 15th most prolific faculty in 1996, when the School of Law was only twenty years old. [10] Ten years later the faculty had the 31st most SSRN downloads, [11] and it is ranked 33rd in scholarly impact (as of 2021). [12] Highly cited faculty members include Professors Myriam Gilles, Michael Herz, Peter Markowitz, Alexander Reinert, Anthony Sebok, Stewart Sterk and Edward Zelinsky. [12] Cardozo's faculty were also the most productive per capita for articles in top journals from 1993 to 2012, for law schools outside of U.S. News & World Report Top 50 law schools. [13]
Cardozo is noted for its focus on clinical teaching and practical experience. As part of the fulfillment of the J.D. requirements, students may choose to participate in clinics housed within the school, taking on legal work under faculty supervision. The clinics provide pro bono services to clients across a range of areas of legal practice, including both civil and criminal cases. Many clinics serve individual clients, while other clinics take on class action lawsuits. They include the Civil Rights Clinic; Bet Tzedek (focused on representing elderly and disabled people); Filmmakers Legal Clinic; Immigration Justice Clinic; the Innocence Project; Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic; and Tech Startup Clinic, among others. [14] Perhaps the best known is the Innocence Project, run by Professor Barry Scheck, which has used DNA profiling to help free dozens of innocent people from prison. The project's work has been instrumental in a number of high-profile cases. [15]
Cardozo has seven faculty members who have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and Cardozo has had two graduates chosen to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court: Sara J. Klein ’05 (for Justice John Paul Stevens) and Cliff Elgarten ’79 (for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.). [16] In 1999 Cardozo became a member of the Order of the Coif, an honor society for law scholars. [17]
Cardozo was the second U.S. law school to secure an invitation to The European Law Moot Court Competition, and the first American law school to be invited twice consecutively. [18] Many of Cardozo's 12,000 alumni reside in the New York metropolitan area, while many pursue their careers internationally and can be found across the country. [19]
U.S. News ranked Cardozo 52nd out of 196 law schools in the country in 2022 (5th of 15 law schools in New York State). [20] Cardozo's LL.M./Master of Laws program was ranked tenth by American Universities Admission Program in 2012. [21] Cardozo ranked high in US News law specialties in Dispute Resolution (4th) [20] and Intellectual Property Law (8th) as of the 2023 rankings. [20] It has also been ranked in the top ten for its Music Law program. [22] Cardozo got A-grades in several areas according to National Jurist's preLaw Magazine in 2018, including Tax Law, [23] International Law, [24] Alternative Dispute Resolution, [25] and Business Law. [26] PreLaw Magazine also ranked Cardozo highly in Government and Public Defender/Prosecutor specializations (11th). [27]
In 2022, 83.5% of the law school's first-time test takers passed the bar exam. [5] Among the 349 who graduated in 2020, 95.6% of those who sat for the bar (336) passed within two years. [5] Of the 261 graduates who took the New York bar exam for the first time in 2022, 84.7% passed (as compared to the state pass rate of 82.7%). [5]
For J.D. students, Cardozo offers a selection of over 226 courses [3] in addition to the eight courses required [28] during the first year. Students may choose to graduate with a concentration in one, or several, of the following areas: [29]
Cardozo students may earn credits towards the J.D. through clinical education, mainly in-house pro bono work focused on public service and including civil litigation, criminal defense, divorce mediation, and a variety of other legal areas.
Cardozo students may study abroad through the following programs: [30]
While most Cardozo students begin their legal studies in August, some students begin in May. [32] May-entry students take their first-year courses over three semesters - summer, fall, and spring, and then attend their fall and spring first-year classes with fall-entry students.
For those who already have a law degree, Cardozo offers LL.M. degrees in General Studies, Comparative Legal Thought, Dispute Resolution and Advocacy, and Intellectual Property. [33] LL.M. students can take almost any of the courses offered to J.D. students. The LL.M. program may be entered in the Spring Term or in the Fall Term.
According to Cardozo's ABA-required disclosures, 81% of the Class of 2021 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment within ten months of graduating. [34] [35] Of the Class of 2018, 87% obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required or JD-advantage employment within ten months. [35] The law school ranks 25th in the United States for "Gold Standard" jobs (full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar passage that are not funded by the school). [36] It is 37th in the percentage of graduates hired by the 100 largest firms. [37]
The cost of tuition and fees at Cardozo for the 2021–22 academic year was $68,462. [3] The Law School Transparency estimated non-discounted, debt-financed cost of attendance (including living expenses) for three years is $323,858. [38]
Located on lower Fifth Avenue at the corner of 12th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, Cardozo's urban campus is in a 19-story building, known as the Brookdale Center. A multimillion-dollar capital improvement plan took place in 2006. The addition of more space at the Brookdale Center also allowed for a larger and significantly enhanced library, new offices and clinic spaces, as well as a new and larger lobby, moot court room, and ground-floor seminar room. In addition, older classrooms were renovated. In fall 2006, the Greenberg Center for Student Life, given in honor of former Dean David Rudenstine, opened. This addition to Cardozo included a new student lounge and a café on the third floor. Also completed were several new seminar rooms, internal stairways between floors, and added windows.
The Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library is the center of student and faculty research at Cardozo. Encompassing four floors of Cardozo's building, the library holds more than 535,000 volumes, [39] over 140 computers, and study space for about 500 students. [40]
Cardozo's main campus.
The Innocence Project moved from the 11th floor of Brookdale Center to a new office space. The move allowed the Innocence Project to hire more staff and significantly increase the number of cases it takes.
Both the Fogelman Library and the Cooper Union library serve as Cardozo's secondary libraries when the main library is closed on the Sabbath or on holidays.
Students in the JD program publish several law journals: Cardozo Law Review; Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal; Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review; Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution; and Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice. [43]
Cardozo Law Review was established in 1979, the first year of the School of Law's existence. [44] The journal was cited 75 times in court cases in 2017–2021, making it fourth most-cited among American law journals (after Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, and Yale Law Review). [45] By journal citations, it ranks 29th, according to Washington & Lee Law School's database. [45] Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal was ranked first in journal cites in the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law category in 2006 (second in Scholarly Impact and third in Cites by Courts). [46]
Cardozo offers students the opportunity to participate in the Moot Court Honor Society, a competition-based organization at the school. In addition to participating in approximately six competitions each semester, the organization also hosts the Paulsen Intramural Moot Court Competition, [47] the Monroe Price Media Law Competition, [48] the Cardozo/BMI Moot Court Competition, [49] and the Langfan Oratorical Competition. [50] [51]
Although Cardozo is under the umbrella of Yeshiva University, which has been involved in legal proceedings after refusing to recognize an undergraduate Pride Alliance group for LGBTQ+ students and allies, [52] [53] Cardozo has long had an active, officially recognized LGBTQ student groups; the Gay and Lesbian Alliance was active on campus by the early 1990s, [54] and presently has a student group, OUTLaw, which has put out statements opposing YU's discrimination against its LGBTQ undergraduates. [55]
Faculty and students at both Cardozo and YU's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology have voiced their disapproval of the university's discrimination and lawsuit. [55] In a letter signed by over 50 members of the Cardozo faculty (which has 56 full-time members), and in statements made by the Dean of the Law School and the Cardozo Board of Overseers, the Law School has publicly affirmed support for LGBTQIA+ rights and called on YU's administration to desist from its appeal and end its discrimination policy. [56] [57]
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