Quinnipiac University School of Law

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Quinnipiac University School of Law, located in Quinnipiac University, is the youngest law school in the U.S. state of Connecticut, having received full accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1995 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school was formerly the University of Bridgeport Law School, part of the University of Bridgeport. The University of Bridgeport went through financial hardships in the early 1990s. In order for the law school to remain open it had to merge with a financially sound university. The law school received bids to be taken over by nearby Sacred Heart University and Quinnipiac. The law school faculty and students voted to merge with Quinnipiac because they felt it a more financially sound University than Sacred Heart. The law school retained the name University of Bridgeport law school until the name was officially changed in the 1990s. Quinnipiac University School of Law is currently ranked in the third tier in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings.

Aerial View of Campus

The 50,000-square-foot, two-level Law Library is recognized by the American Institute of Architects and the Library Administration and Management Association as one of the six most architecturally distinguished libraries in the country, the law library houses more than 425,000 volumes and offers wireless access throughout. An agreement with Yale Law School allows students full use of their law library

Award Winning Law Center

Located within the School of Law Center, the Grand Courtroom is designed as a place where students can conduct a mock trial before a judge and jury and make appellate arguments to a panel of judges. On several occasions it has hosted sessions of the Connecticut Supreme Court and Connecticut Appellate Court. It also serves as a spacious lecture hall for guest speakers who visit the School of Law.

1 Academics
2 Student Body
3 Costs & Financial Aid
4 Student Life
5 Everything Else
6 External links

[edit] Academics

Degree programs: JD, JD/MBA, LLM in health law

Concentrations: Civil advocacy and dispute resolution, criminal law and advocacy, family and juvenile law, health law, intellectual property, tax.

Externships: Corporate counsel, criminal justice, family and juvenile law, judicial, legal services, legislative, mediation, public interest, field placement II.

In-house clinical programs: Civil, tax, advanced, evening, defense appellate, prosecution appellate.

Other learning opportunities: Summer study in Ireland, other opportunities to study abroad.

Full-time faculty: 37; adjunct: 35 per semester Many professors also hold teaching positions at Yale Law School

Student-to-faculty ratio: 11 to 1; average class size: under 25

[edit] Student Body

Enrollment: 388

   * First-year profile: 47 percent female, 53 percent male; 18 percent students of color; average age: 25.
   * LSAT scores:
     - Day division program (full time) LSAT (25th–75th percentiles): 157 / 160
     - Evening division program (part time) LSAT (25th–75th percentiles): 152 / 156

[edit] Costs & Financial Aid

Tuition: Full-time students: $35,600 ($17,800 per semester). Part-time students: $1,240 per credit.

Financial aid: Free Application for Federal Student Aid available. Admitted applicants also automatically considered for merit-based grants and scholarships that range from $3,000 per year to full tuition.

The Deans Fellowship is typically awarded to 8-10 students per year and covers full tuition.

The Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service is an award given for public service in honor of Judge Raymond E. Baldwin