University of Louisville School of Law

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University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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Parent school University of Louisville
Established1846;178 years ago (1846)
School type Public
Parent endowmentIncrease2.svg$720 million
Dean Melanie Jacobs
Location Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Enrollment355 [ citation needed ]
USNWR ranking99th (2023) [1]
Website louisville.edu/law
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The University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, commonly referred to as The University of Louisville School of Law [2] [3] or the Brandeis School of Law, [4] is the law school of the University of Louisville. Established in 1846, it is the oldest law school in Kentucky and the fifth oldest in the country in continuous operation. [5] The law school is named after Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who served on the Supreme Court of the United States and was the school's patron. Following the example of Brandeis, who eventually stopped accepting payment for "public interest" cases, [6] Louis D. Brandeis School of Law was one of the first law schools in the nation to require students to complete public service before graduation. [7]

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The school offers six dual-degree programs that allow students to earn an MBA, MSW, MA in humanities, M.Div. (with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary), MA in political science, and MUP in urban planning while attaining their J.D. These classes are offered in conjunction with other University of Louisville departments.

The school's law library contains 400,000 volumes as well as the papers of Louis D. Brandeis and John Marshall Harlan, both Supreme Court Justices and native Kentuckians. It is one of only thirteen Supreme Court repositories in the nation. The law school's flagship law review is the University of Louisville Law Review . [8]

According to University of Louisville's 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 92% of the Class of 2018 was employed within ten months of graduation. This includes 76% who obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners. [9]

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The University of Louisville Law Review, Summer 2018.

History

19th and early 20th century history

The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville opened in 1846 and was named for Justice Brandeis in 1997. Brandeisl.jpg
The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville opened in 1846 and was named for Justice Brandeis in 1997.

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law began in 1846 as the Law Department of the University of Louisville. For most of the nineteenth century the Law Department remained small and focused on practical education. "As late as the 1870s the school still supported a faculty of only three professors, each of whom met classes two days per week for four hours." [10] Classes were held in the late afternoon to allow students to keep daytime jobs as law clerks. The faculty ignored the casebook method of instruction that was being developed at Harvard Law School at the time, instead encouraging students to visit local courts and offering optional mock court sessions. The "school literature even boasted that the faculty consisted of 'practical lawyers' and not professional educators." [10] As a result, prominent faculty members such as James Speed and Peter B. Muir often eschewed their part-time positions in favor of politics or private practice.

The turn of the twentieth century saw the Law Department finally begin to accept emerging national standards in legal education. In 1909, the school adopted Harvard Law's casebook method. In 1911, the school graduated its first female student, N. Almee Courtright. In 1923, the Law Department officially became the School of Law and hired a full-time professor. The following year University of Louisville President Arthur Younger Ford insisted that students must take some college courses before being admitted to the law school. [10]

The UofL School of Law and the Jefferson School of Law

Despite these efforts at reform, the students and professors of the School of Law continued to prefer part-time practical education over the national trend towards more formal legal education. This partly reflected the success of and competition from the Jefferson School of Law, which opened in 1905 and offered night classes.[ citation needed ]

Organized by several prominent local attorneys, the part-time professors at the Jefferson School of Law received tuition directly from the students and were responsible for renting classroom space. With students wishing to clerk and part-time professors continuing to practice, both schools were located within walking distance of the courthouse. As the national trend continued towards formal legal education, the Jefferson School of Law found it difficult to manage as a part-time law school. In 1950 the Jefferson School of Law merged with the University of Louisville School of Law. [10]

Louis D. Brandeis and the UofL School of Law

Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was a great supporter of the University of Louisville. A native Louisvillian, Brandeis planned to make the university a "major center of academic research by creating specialized library and archival collections in such areas as sociology, art, music, and labor." [10] In addition to time and money, Brandeis also donated his personal papers, books, and pamphlets, numbering over 250,000 items. He was also instrumental in getting Supreme Court briefs and a collection of Justice John Marshall Harlan's papers deposited in the law school library. [11]

In honor of Brandeis, the University of Louisville School of Law changed its name to the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 1997.[ citation needed ]

The school's Louis D. Brandeis Society, established in 1976, awards the Brandeis Medal to individuals whose lives reflect Louis Brandeis' commitment to the ideals of individual liberty, concern for the disadvantaged and public service.

The Brandeis Law Library owns a limited edition print of Andy Warhol's portrait of Brandeis which is on display in the library's main reading room. [12]

The ashes of Brandeis and his wife Alice Goldmark Brandeis are buried underneath the law school portico. His ashes are buried approximately fifty yards away from Auguste Rodin's The Thinker. [11]

Today

True to its history, the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law has retained a strong focus on practical legal education. The school offers students a chance to gain experience at its law clinic, on moot court teams, in skills competitions, and on three student-edited law journals. As part of the Samuel L. Greenebaum Public Service Program, the school also requires all students to complete 30 hours of law-related public service. The school has several pre-professional student-run organizations, including the Student Trial Lawyers Association, International Law Society, Student Health Law Association, Environmental Law Society, and The Brand (intellectual property).[ citation needed ]

In addition to pre-professional student organizations, there are also a number of student-run social and political organizations on campus. A partial list of these includes the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society, Lambda Law Caucus, Black Students Association, Asian-Pacific Law Students Association, Jewish Law Students Association, Christian Legal Society, and Woman's Law Caucus.[ citation needed ]

The Law Library supports the curriculum and research needs of the school's faculty and students, and is open to the university community, practicing bar, and the general public. [13]

Deans of Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

  1. 1846–1873: Henry Pirtle
  2. 1881–1886: William Chenault
  3. 1886–1890: Rozel Weissinger
  4. 1890–1911: Willis Overton Harris
  5. 1911–1919, 1922–1925: Charles B. Seymour
  6. 1919–1921: Edward W. Hines
  7. 1925–1930: Leon P. Lewis
  8. 1930–1933: Neville Miller
  9. 1933–1934: Wendell Carnahan (interim)
  10. 1934–1936: Joseph A. McClain Jr.
  11. 1936–1946: Jack Neal Lott Jr.
  12. 1946–1957: Absalom C. Russell
  13. 1957–1958: William B. Peden
  14. 1958–1965: Marlin M. Volz
  15. 1965–1974, 1975–1976: James R. Merritt
  16. 1974–1975: Steven R. Smith (interim)
  17. 1976–1980: Harold Wren
  18. 1980–1981: Norvie L. Lay (interim)
  19. 1981–1990: Barbara B. Lewis
  20. 1990–2000: Donald L. Burnett Jr.
  21. 2000–2005: Laura Rothstein
  22. 2005–2006: David Ensign (interim)
  23. 2007–2012: Jim Chen [10]
  24. 2012–2017: Susan H. Duncan (interim)
  25. 2017–2018, 2021–2022: Lars Smith (interim)
  26. 2018–2021: Colin Crawford
  27. 2022–present: Melanie B. Jacobs

Employment

According to University of Louisville's 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 92% of the Class of 2018 was employed within ten months of graduation. This includes 76% who obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners. [9] University of Louisville's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 6.7%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2018 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. [14]

Costs

The tuition at University of Louisville for the 2021–2022 academic year is $23,798 for residents and $28,798 out-of-state students. [15]

Notable alumni

Publications

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