| University of Cincinnati College of Law | |
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| Motto | Juncta Juvant(Latin) "Strength in Unity" |
| Parent school | University of Cincinnati |
| Established | 1833; 192 years ago (1833) |
| School type | Publiclaw school |
| Dean | Haider Ala Hamoudi |
| Location | Cincinnati,Ohio,USA 39.12905°N 84.52010°W |
| USNWR ranking | 71st (tie) (2025)[1] |
| Website | law |
| ABA profile | Standard 509 Report |
TheUniversity of Cincinnati College of Law is thelaw school of theUniversity of Cincinnati inCincinnati, Ohio.
The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously operatinglaw school in the United States — afterHarvard,Virginia, andYale — and the first in the nation's interior. In 1900, it was a charter member of theAssociation of American Law Schools.[2] Then-dean (and future 27th President of the United States)William Howard Taft (1880) merged it with theUniversity of Cincinnati in 1896. Its notable alumni include two U.S. Supreme Court justices,Willis Van Devanter and Taft, who wasChief Justice of the Supreme Court after his presidency. Additionally, Jimmy Nippert, the namesake of the university'sNippert Stadium, was a student at UC Law at the time of his death in 1923.[3]
Until August 2022, the College of Law was located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in theHeights neighborhood of Cincinnati. Since August 2022, the College of Law has been located in a new building on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive W and Campus Green Dr.[4] The new premises were named the 11th best law school campus in the country by preLaw Magazine.[5]
Degrees Offered
TheJuris Doctor (JD) degree is offered, along with four joint degree programs, including a JD/MBA with the Lindner College of Business, a JD/MA Womens Gender & Sexuality Studies (first in the nation) with UC’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a JD/Master of Community Planning with the School of Planning in the prestigious College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, and a JD/MA or JD/PhD with the School of Public and International Affairs.
Cincinnati Law also offers aMaster of Laws (LLM) in the US Legal System for international attorneys. Graduate certificates in US Law are also available.
U.S. News & World Report, listed University of Cincinnati College of Law as theNo.78th law school out of 196 in Best Law Schools. in the nation in 2024.[6]
UC Law is home to several journals including theHuman Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, theImmigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and theNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
| Dean[7][8] | Years Served |
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| Timothy Walker | 1833–1843 |
| William S. Groesbeck | 1844–1869 |
| Charles L. Telford | |
| Maskell S. Curwen | 1850–1868 |
| Rotated among faculty | 1869–1873 |
| J. Bryant Walker | 1873–1874 |
| Rufus King | 1875–1880 |
| Jacob D. Cox | 1880–1897 |
| William Howard Taft | 1897–1900 |
| Gustavus H. Wald | 1900–1902 |
| William P. Rogers | 1902–1916 |
| Albert B. Benedict | 1916–1926 |
| Merton L. Ferson | 1926–1946 |
| Frank S. Rowley | 1946–1952 |
| Roscoe L. Barrow | 1952–1965 |
| Claude S. Sowle | 1965–1969 |
| Samuel S. Wilson | 1969–1970 1973* 1974–1978 |
| Edward A. Mearns, Jr. | 1970–1973 |
| Victor E. Schwartz | 1973–1974* |
| Jorge L. Carro | 1978–1979* |
| Gordon A. Christenson | 1979–1986 |
| Thomas Gerety | 1986–1989 |
| Joseph P. Tomain | 1989–1990* 1990–2005 |
| Louis D. Bilionis | 2005–2015 |
| Jennifer S. Bard | 2015–2017 |
| Verna L. Williams | 2017–2019** 2019–2022 |
| Michael Whiteman | 2022–2023** |
| Haider Ala Hamoudi | 2023–present |
*Acting
**Interim
According to University of Cincinnati's 2022 ABA-required disclosures, 80% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[9]
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