Colonel William A. Phillips

The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously running law school in the United States — after Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Yale.[2]

In 1900, it was a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools.[2] Then-dean (and future 27th President of the United States) William Howard Taft (1880) merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. Its notable alumni include two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Willis Van Devanter and Taft, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his presidency. Additionally, Jimmy Nippert, the namesake of the university's Nippert Stadium, was a student at UC Law at the time of his death in 1923.[3]

UC Law offers a JD program as well as an LLM (Master of Laws) in the US Legal System for international attorneys. Graduate certificates in US Law are also available.

Entrance to the College of Law from Clifton Avenue.

U.S. News & World Report, listed Cincinnati's tax law program as 84th in the nation in 2023-2024.[4]

The College's trial courtroom, where Cincinnati-area state and federal judges conduct proceedings in real cases several times each year.
Statue of former Dean William Howard Taft outside the College of Law. Taft went on to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States.
Another view of the Taft statue.

Deans of the College of Law

Dean[5][6] Years Served
Timothy Walker 1833–1843
William S. Groesbeck 1844–1869
Charles L. Telford
Maskell S. Curwen 1850–1868
Rotated among faculty 1869–1873
J. Bryant Walker 1873–1874
Rufus King 1875–1880
Jacob D. Cox 1880–1897
William Howard Taft 1897–1900
Gustavus H. Wald 1900–1902
William P. Rogers 1902–1916
Albert B. Benedict 1916–1926
Merton L. Ferson 1926–1946
Frank S. Rowley 1946–1952
Roscoe L. Barrow 1952–1965
Claude S. Sowle 1965–1969
Samuel S. Wilson 1969–1970
1973*
1974–1978
Edward A. Mearns, Jr. 1970–1973
Victor E. Schwartz 1973–1974*
Jorge L. Carro 1978–1979*
Gordon A. Christenson 1979–1986
Thomas Gerety 1986–1989
Joseph P. Tomain 1989–1990*
1990–2005
Louis D. Bilionis 2005–2015
Jennifer S. Bard 2015–2017
Verna L. Williams 2017–2019**
2019–2022
Michael Whiteman 2022–2023**
Haider Ala Hamoudi 2023–present

*Acting
**Interim

Publications

A study area in the Marx Law Library.

UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

A lecture hall for larger classes at the College of Law.
A smaller classroom fitted with a variety of instructional technologies.

Location

Until August 2022, the College of Law was located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Since August 2022, the College of Law has been located in a new building on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive W and Campus Green Dr. The new premises were named the 11th best law school campus in the country by preLaw Magazine.[7]

Notable alumni

Employment

According to University of Cincinnati's 2022 ABA-required disclosures, 80% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[8]

References

  1. ^ "University of Cincinnati". U.S. News & World Report – Best Law Schools. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b "History". University of Cincinnati College of Law. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Complete story of how UC's Nippert Stadium got its namesake".
  4. ^ "University of Cincinnati Main Campus". premium.usnews.com.
  5. ^ "College of Law Deans". University of Cincinnati College of Law.
  6. ^ "Haider Ala Hamoudi named dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law". 9 May 2023.
  7. ^ "PreLaw magazine Spring 2022".
  8. ^ "Standard 509 Disclosure".

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