McGeorge School of Law explained

University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law
Parent:University of the Pacific
Established:1924
Type:Private
Head:Michael Hunter Schwartz
City:Sacramento
State:California
Country:US
Students:402 (Full-time)
Faculty:39 (Full-time)
102 (Total)[1]
Ranking:159th (tie) (2024)[2]
Bar Pass Rate:86% (October 2020 first time takers)[3]
Annual Tuition:$46,462 (Full-time)
$30,858 (Part-time)
Homepage:www.McGeorge.edu
Aba Profile:McGeorge School of Law

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law is a private, American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law school in the Oak Park neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the University of the Pacific and is located on the University's Sacramento campus.

History

The school that eventually became McGeorge began in 1921 when University of Chicago Law School graduate[4] and Standard Oil executive Verne Adrian McGeorge began teaching law students at night in downtown Sacramento, California. After its formal establishment as a school in 1924, this Sacramento Law School, subsequently renamed in Professor McGeorge's honor as the "McGeorge School of Law", merged with the University of the Pacific in 1966 and came to be known as "Pacific McGeorge".[5] McGeorge became an integral part of the University of the Pacific in 1991. The current dean of McGeorge School of Law is Michael Hunter Schwartz, formerly the dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 2013 to 2017.

Accreditation, memberships, rankings

McGeorge has been approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1969.[6] As an ABA approved law school, McGeorge graduates are eligible to sit for the bar examination in any American jurisdiction.

Memberships

McGeorge joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1974.[7] It has a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.[8]

Rankings and bar exam passage rate

See also: Law school rankings in the United States.

In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, McGeorge School of Law was ranked 133.

Of the McGeorge alumni who took the California bar for the first time in July, 2022, 57% passed. It ranked fifteenth among the eighteen ABA-accredited California law schools.[9]

Tuition costs

McGeorge's tuition and fees for full-time students during the 2019–2020 academic year cost $56,776 per year, while tuition and fees for part-time students was $42,418-47,824 per year.[10]

Academic programs

McGeorge offers degree programs leading to the award of the J.D. (Juris Doctor), the LL.M. (Master of Laws), the M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration), the M.P.P. (Master of Public Policy) and the J.S.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degrees.

McGeorge offers both a three-year day division program and four-year evening division program.

The first year curriculum at McGeorge consists of 27 units.[11] McGeorge law students must also complete 29 units of upper-level required curriculum.[12] Therefore, 56 units out of the 88 units to graduate are required courses.[13] All students take the same required courses.

Location

The McGeorge School of Law is located on University of the Pacific's Sacramento campus at 3200 Fifth Avenue in the Oak Park area of Sacramento, the capital of California.[14]

Journals and publications

Notable people

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Present Dean and Dean Emeriti

References

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ABA Standard 509 Info Report, McGeorge School of Law. 9 January 2020. 19 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191219125742/https://www.mcgeorge.edu/documents/standard509InfoReport.pdf. dead.
  2. Web site: University of the Pacific (McGeorge) . Best Law Schools . U.S. News & World Report . 2 May 2024.
  3. Web site: General Statistics Report - October 2020 California Bar Examination. State Bar of California. 30 March 2021.
  4. Book: Chicago, University of. University of Chicago Alumni Directory. 1920. Produced for the University of Chicago Alumni Association by Pub. Concepts, Incorporated. en.
  5. Web site: History of McGeorge. www.mcgeorge.edu. 14 August 2018. 14 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180814040023/http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Future-Students/Life-at-McGeorge/About-McGeorge/History-of-McGeorge.html. dead.
  6. Web site: ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year . ABA website . April 20, 2011.
  7. Web site: Member Schools – Association of American Law Schools. 13 August 2018. 17 July 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014748/http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#k-m. dead.
  8. Web site: member chart. Anesha. Smith. www.orderofthecoif.org. 13 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20140327093547/http://www.orderofthecoif.org/COIF-members.htm. 27 March 2014. dead.
  9. https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/Examinations/July-2022-CBX-Statistics.pdf
  10. Web site: JD Program Tuition & Fees. www.mcgeorge.edu. en. 2019-12-19.
  11. Web site: First-Year Required Curriculum. www.mcgeorge.edu. 18 August 2011. 27 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927112623/http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Academic_Programs/Catalog/The_JD_Program/First-Year_Required_Curriculum.htm. dead.
  12. Web site: Upper-level Required Curriculum. www.mcgeorge.edu. 18 August 2011. 27 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927112708/http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Academic_Programs/Catalog/The_JD_Program/Upper-Level_Curriculum.htm. dead.
  13. Web site: Degree Requirements. www.mcgeorge.edu. 18 August 2011. 29 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110729172712/http://www.mcgeorge.edu/x6726.xml. dead.
  14. Web site: Sacramento Campus — University of the Pacific. www.pacific.edu. 2019-12-19.
  15. Web site: LLM Named to Key Azerbaijan Post. 2013-05-15. www.mcgeorge.edu. 2019-12-19.
  16. Web site: Victor Plata. https://web.archive.org/web/20151227035116/https://www.teamusa.org/usa-triathlon/athletes/Victor-Plata. dead. December 27, 2015. Team USA. 9 January 2020.
  17. Web site: Christian Wellisch #255000 – Attorney Search. The State Bar of. California. members.calbar.ca.gov. 13 August 2018.
  18. Web site: Current Members. www.supremecourt.gov. 13 August 2018.
  19. Web site: Anthony Kennedy. www.mcgeorge.edu. 13 August 2018. 25 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141025074817/http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Anthony_Kennedy.htm. dead.
  20. Web site: The State Bar of California. www.calbar.ca.gov. 13 August 2018.

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