Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Law School
Parent schoolUniversity of Notre Dame
Religious affiliationRoman Catholic (Congregation of Holy Cross)
Established1869; 155 years ago (1869)
School typePrivate law school
Parent endowment$18.9 billion[1]
DeanG. Marcus Cole
LocationNotre Dame, Indiana, U.S.
41°41′55.27″N 86°14′16.45″W / 41.6986861°N 86.2379028°W / 41.6986861; -86.2379028
Enrollment529 (2022)[2]
Faculty135 (2022)[2]
USNWR ranking20th (tied) (2024)[3]
Bar pass rate90.16% (2019)[4]
Websitelaw.nd.edu

Notre Dame Law School is the law school of the University of Notre Dame. Established in 1869,[5][6] it is the oldest continuously operating Catholic law school in the United States.[7]

According to Notre Dame's 2022 ABA-required disclosures, 91% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.[8] The law school is notable for its high rate of students accepting federal judicial clerkships, placing 4th in the nation with a clerkship rate of 15.2%, behind Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.[9]

The school enrolls about 600 students and in addition to the J.D. degree it also offers dual JD–MBA and several a dual J.D. and Masters combined degrees (including JD/MS, JD/MA, JD/M.Eng.). It also offers the only American Bar Association–approved, year-long, study-abroad program, which is based in London.[10]

  1. ^ Vales, Emma (March 8, 2023). "Notre Dame's Endowment Value Hits Record $13.1 Billion". Retrieved July 14, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "ABA Standard 509 Information Report" (PDF). ABA Standard 509 Information Report. ABA. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
  3. ^ "Best Law Schools". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  4. ^ "CombinedBPReportForDisclosure2018" (PDF). Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  5. ^ Konop, Thomas (November 1930). "History of the Notre Dame College of Law". Notre Dame Law Review. 6 (1): 5. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Century of Law at Notre Dame" (PDF). Century of Law at Notre Dame. Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  7. ^ Owens, Dennis (1976). "American Law Schools in Their Second Century". Journal of Legal Education. 28 (2): 210–215. ISSN 0022-2208. JSTOR 42892391.
  8. ^ "University of Notre Dame" (PDF). www.nd.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  9. ^ "These law schools sent the most grads to federal clerkships". www.reuters.com.
  10. ^ "University of Notre Dame Law School". Retrieved Apr 20, 2020.