University of Illinois College of Law

The University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign was founded in 1897 and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.illinois.edu/prospective-students/college-profile.asp|title=College Profile – University of Illinois College of Law|website=Law.illinois.edu|access-date=May 26, 2018}} The law honor society known as the Order of the Coif was founded at Illinois Law in 1902.

On September 11, 2011, The News-Gazette reported that the law school posted inaccurate information on its website about the LSAT scores and GPAs of its incoming first-year law students.Paul Wood (9/11/11)[http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2011-09-11/ui-withdraws-inaccurate-info-about-incoming-law-school-class.html UI withdraws inaccurate info about incoming law school class] News-Gazette Two months later, the law school announced that a report commissioned from Jones Day and Duff & Phelps had found admission data for six of the seven previous years to have been manipulated by the Assistant Dean of Admissions Paul Pless, that Pless had acted alone and would no longer work for the College.{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-u-of-i-law-school-1108-20111108,0,6837440.story |work=Chicago Tribune |title=A University of Illinois law dean resigns after report details manipulations of admissions data |date=November 8, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2011-09-12/assistant-dean-ui-law-school-put-leave.html|title=Assistant dean at UI law school put on leave|website=News-gazette.com |access-date=May 26, 2018}}

For the class entering in 2023, the law school accepted 43.69% of applicants, with 21.57% of those accepted enrolling. The median enrollee had a 165 LSAT score and 3.75 undergraduate GPA.{{cite web |title= 2023 Standard 509 Information Report - Illinois, University of |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=American Bar Association |access-date=April 7, 2024 }}

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The law school offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.), the professional degree in law, as well as the Master of Laws (LL.M) and Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.), academic graduate degrees in law.

The Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Library is the college's law library.

The flagship law review is the University of Illinois Law Review; the law school also publishes two specialized law journals, the Elder Law Journal and the Journal of Law, Technology & Policy.{{cite web|url=http://www.jltp.uiuc.edu/|title=Journal of Law, Technology & Policy – @ The University of Illinois|website=Jltp.uiuc.edu}} The law school is also the home institution for the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and for Law and Philosophy.

According to the law school's official 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 78.92% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment 10 months after graduation.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.illinois.edu/career-services/student-employment-data |title=Student Employment Data}} This was then the 19th highest out of all law schools in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/ABA-School-Jobs-2016/Story1#!/publish-confirm|title=Tableau Public|website=public.tableau.com|language=en|access-date=May 31, 2017}}{{failed verification|date=July 2019}} Law School Transparency under-employment score is 10.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job 10 months after graduation.{{cite web |url=http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/illinois/2013/|title=University of Illinois|website=lstscorereports.com|access-date=May 26, 2018}}

In the 2024 U.S. News & World Report ranking, the college was ranked 36th in the country, tied with four others. In 2023, Above the Law ranked the college 19th in the nation.{{cite web |url=https://abovethelaw.com/top-law-schools-2023/ |title=The ATL 2020 Top Law School Rankings |publisher=Above the Law |access-date=April 8, 2024 }} In 1957, the Chicago Sunday Tribune released the first modern rankings of law schools, and included Illinois among the top 10 law schools in America.{{cite news|last1=Manly|first1=Chesly|title=Greatest Schools in Nation|publisher=Chicago Sunday Tribune |date=April 21, 1957}}

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Notable alumni include Albert E. Jenner Jr., name partner at the law firm Jenner & Block; Annette Lu, Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008; and Philip McConnaughay, dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law and former dean of Penn State Dickinson Law.

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