University of Illinois College of Law

The University of Illinois College of Law (UIUC Law) is the law school of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the public University of Illinois university system. The College of Law was established in 1897, and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers. The school's prestige, small class size, and strong placement into Chicago law firms make its admissions process highly selective. The school offers 10 scholarly areas of research, teaching, and coursework, called specialty programs. These are not majors or concentrations in the traditional sense but areas of academic interest and strength within the College of Law. The specialty programs include; Business Law and Policy; Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy; Constitutional Theory, History and Law; Criminal Law and Procedure; Health Law and Policy; Intellectual Property and Technology Law; International and Comparative Law; Law, Behavior and Social Sciences; Law and Philosophy; and Legal History. The school boasts the 14th largest law library in the country, and a long list of notable alumni in law firms, politics, the judiciary, and academia, including: Alpert Jenner, Jr., name partner at law firm Jenner & Block, LLC., and Philip McConnaughay, Dean of Penn State University Dickinson School of Law. In the 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranking of American law schools, the...
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