University of California, Irvine School of Law

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University of California, Irvine School of Law
UCI School of Law building
Parent school	University of California, Irvine
Established	2007; 17 years ago (2007)
School type	Public
Parent endowment	$1.3 billion
Dean	Austen Parrish,[1] Dean and Chancellor's Professor of Law
Location	Irvine, California, US
Enrollment	467[2]
Faculty	145[2]
USNWR ranking	42nd (tie) (2024)[3]
Bar pass rate	88% (July 2022 1st time takers)[4]
Website	law.uci.edu
ABA profile	Standard 509 Report

The University of California, Irvine School of Law (branded as UC Irvine Law) is the law school at the University of California, Irvine, a public research university in Irvine, California. Founded in 2007, it is the fifth and newest law school in the University of California system. At the time of its founding, it was the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years.^[5]

In September 2007, Erwin Chemerinsky was named as the law school's first dean. Chemerinsky served until 2017 when he was hired to be dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. L. Song Richardson became interim dean in July 2017^[6] and full dean in January 2018.^[7] Song Richardson served as the dean until 2021 when she was hired as President of Colorado College. Bryant Garth became interim dean in July 2021.^[8] Austen Parrish was named as the law school's third dean in April 2022.^[9]