| Washburn University School of Law | |
| Established | 1903 |
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| School type | Public |
| Endowment | US$ 80.4 million[1] |
| Parent endowment | US$ 130.5 million[2] |
| Dean | Thomas J. Romig (Dean) |
| Location | Topeka, Kansas, USA |
| Enrollment | 445 |
| Faculty | 79 |
| USNWR ranking | 140[3] |
| Bar pass rate | 93.8%[4] |
| Annual tuition | $15,750 (Kansas resident) $24,600 (non-resident) |
| Website | www.washburnlaw.edu |
| ABA profile | Washburn Law profile |
The Washburn University School of Law, commonly referred to as Washburn Law, is a public law school located on the main campus of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Washburn Law was founded in 1903. The school has 79 faculty members and 445 students. The school has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1923 and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1905.[5] The 2010 edition of US News and World Report's Best Law Schools ranked Washburn in the third tier for ABA accredited schools, and ranked its Legal Writing program 17th among all law schools in the country.[6] In the 2010 edition of the National Jurist Best value law schools Washburn Law was ranked 31st overall.[7] Washburn Law was also listed under the outstanding category in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review's best law schools release.[8] The SSRN ranks Washburn Law's tax program as #19 overall and its tax faculty as #9 overall.[9] Washburn's Law Review was also ranked #75 overall according to the 2010 ranking by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).[10] The IRLG ranked Washburn Law #58 overall in its 2009 ranking of law schools.[11] Law & Politics 2010 ranking of law schools ranked Washburn law #105 overall among ABA approved law schools.[12] In 2011, US News and World Report moved Washburn in to the ranked listings, at #140 in the nation. [13]
The Washburn Law Library is the largest law library in the state of Kansas with over 385,000 volumes.[14] It has been ranked as one of the top 20 law school libraries in the country.[15] The law library maintains Washlaw, one of the nation's leading Internet legal research portals.[16]
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The Washburn Law Clinic functions as an in-house general practice law firm, providing representation in practice concentration areas such as Children and Family Law, Criminal Defense, State Tribal Court Practice, Civil Litigation, Criminal Appellate Advocacy, and Small Business and Transactional Law. Regardless of the subject matter of the clinic cases, the skills that students acquire through their clinical experience are transferable to future practice.[17]
The first-year curriculum includes Legal Writing, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, Constitution and Property. In addition, all entering students participate in the law school's academic support program, Ex-L (Expert Learning). Ex-L consists of an elaborate and rigorous First-Week Program designed to teach law students the law school learning strategies they need to succeed. It includes a structured study group component in which groups of four to six students meet twice per week to apply cooperative learning strategies to their law school learning under the supervision of carefully trained upper-division students.