University of Idaho College of Law

University of Idaho College of Law
Parent schoolUniversity of Idaho
Established1909 (1909), 115 years ago
School typePublic
DeanAviva Abramovsky [1]
LocationMoscow and Boise,
Idaho, U.S.
46°43′41″N 117°00′58″W / 46.728°N 117.016°W / 46.728; -117.016
Enrollment343
Faculty40
USNWR ranking145th (tie) (2024)[2]
Bar pass rate73.03% (2017)
Websitewww.uidaho.edu/law
ABA profileUI College of Law Profile
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The University of Idaho College of Law is the law school of the University of Idaho. Its main location is in Moscow, and a second campus is in the state capital of Boise. As of the entering class of 2017–18, students may take all three years of instruction at either location.[4] The UI College of Law was established in 1909, has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1914, and has been accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1925. In the 2023 rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Idaho Law at #142 of ABA-accredited law schools in its annual law school rankings.

The College of Law in fall of 2016 had an enrollment of around 300 students, with an entering first-year class of 97 students.[5] As a public law school, new students hail from across Idaho and 18 different states and foreign countries. They represent over 70 undergraduate colleges and universities.

The college offers four areas of emphasis: Native American Law, Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Business Law and Entrepreneurship, and Intellectual Property and Technology Law.

The college opened its Idaho Law and JusticexLearning Center in Boise in 2010, initially as a third-year program only.[6][7][8] Second-year classes were added in 2014.[9] The plans for a full three-year program in Boise, which UI had first discussed in the late 1990s[7] and the state legislature had addressed in 2008,[10] were fully realized in 2017 after the Idaho Board of Education[11] and the ABA[4] approved the addition of first-year courses at the Boise campus. The Boise campus initially accommodated about 35 students annually;[12] with the expansion to a full three-year program, it can now accept up to 60 first-year students.[4] UI's addition of the Boise campus has led the University of South Dakota to consider establishing a second law school campus in Sioux Falls.[7]

The University of Idaho College of Law is the only law school in Idaho fully accredited by the ABA. A second accredited law school, the Concordia University School of Law, operated from 2019 to 2020.[13][14]

According to Idaho Law's 2015 American Bar Association-required disclosures, 78.5% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[15] Moreover, 76% of 2018 graduates of the University of Idaho College of Law secured full-time, long-term employment.

  1. ^ "Abramovsky named next University of Idaho law school dean". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  2. ^ "University of Idaho Law". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  3. ^ University of Idaho College of Law Official ABA Data
  4. ^ a b c "American Bar Association Approves First-Year Law Program in Boise" (Press release). University of Idaho. March 16, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  5. ^ "2016-17 Fact Sheet - College of Law - University of Idaho". www.uidaho.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  6. ^ Tarinelli, Ryan (May 2, 2013). "Second-year struggles — University of Idaho law school's move to Boise hits funding road blocks". Argonaut. Moscow, Idaho. University of Idaho. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  7. ^ a b c Raposa, Megan (September 5, 2017). "Moving a law school to a bigger city? Idaho did it". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  8. ^ "Collaborative Effort Build the ILJLC - College of Law - University of Idaho". www.uidaho.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  9. ^ Russell, Betsy Z. (June 2014). "UI law school's Boise expansion wins ABA approval, opens in August". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  10. ^ Idaho State Board of Education Resolution: To authorize UI to expand its offerings in Boise to a full third-year curriculum and to include a legislative appropriation in the FY 2010 budget for this expansion. The Regents recognize the statewide mission of UI for legal education. UI is instructed to re-visit the issue of funding and support for a full dual location model, including a full three (3) year branch curriculum in Boise, to continue collaboration with the Idaho Supreme Court on the Idaho Law Learning Center with respect to those programs to be delivered in Boise, and to return to the Regents for further discussion.http://www.boardofed.idaho.gov/meetings/minutes/2008/04_17_08/April16-18_2008%20_APPROVED_minutes.pdf
  11. ^ "Ed board approves UI's first-year law program in Boise". Boise, Idaho: KTVB. February 15, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  12. ^ the Associated Press. "University of Idaho law school expands to Boise". missoulian.com.
  13. ^ "Concordia law school in Boise receives full accreditation by American Bar Association". Boise, Idaho: KTVB. March 1, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  14. ^ Roberts, Bill, "Boise's Concordia law school wins provisional accreditation," Idaho Statesman, 8 June 2015 Retrieved 28 December 2015
  15. ^ "Employment Statistics".