Rutgers Law School
Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University, with classrooms in Newark and Camden, New Jersey. It is the largest public law school and the 10th largest law school, overall, in the United States. Each class in the three-year J.D. program enrolls approximately 350 law students. Although Rutgers University dates from 1766, its law school was founded in Newark in 1908. Today, Rutgers offers the J.D. and a foreign-lawyer J.D., as well as joint-degree programs that combine a J.D. with a graduate degree from another Rutgers graduate program. Rutgers has law alumni who practice in every U.S. state and in foreign jurisdictions throughout the world. Current well-known alumni include U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Robert Menendez (NJ) and three of seven sitting justices on the New Jersey Supreme Court. The late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a member of the Rutgers law faculty early in her career. Rutgers serves a unique role in New Jersey's legal landscape: the current Constitution of New Jersey was adopted in 1947 pursuant to a convention at Rutgers University (though not at the law school campus), and the Rutgers Law Library serves as a repository of New Jersey's key legal documents from the colonial era through current legislation and case law. Above the Law ranked Rutgers 41st on its 2019 list of top law schools, while U.S. News & World Report, in its 2023 rankings of Best Graduate Schools, ranked Rutgers Law School 86th among 199 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association. Apart from its national standing, Rutgers serves as a unique institution in the legal landscape of New Jersey. According to Rutgers Law School's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 93.7% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required or JD-advantage employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners.
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