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The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
Motto
Deus Lux Mea Est - God Is My Light
Parent school
Catholic University of America
Established
1898[1]
School type
Private
Dean
Daniel F. Attridge
Location
Washington, D.C., US
Enrollment
519[2]
Faculty
105[2]
USNWR ranking
103[3]
Website
http://law.edu
The Columbus School of Law, also known as CUA Law, is the law school of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C.
More than 450 Juris Doctor students attend CUA Law. Incoming classes are typically composed of about 150 students, including day and evening programs.[2] Around 1,900 students apply annually.[2] CUA Law is located slightly more than two miles north of the United States Capitol and is a five-minute walk from the Brookland-CUA metro station.
According to CUA Law's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 49% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, employment requiring bar passage nine months after graduation.[4]
Contents
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1 History
2 Academics
2.1 Curriculum
2.2 Degrees offered
2.3 Faculty
2.4 Institutes and programs
2.5 Experiential learning
2.6 Publications
3 Student life
4 Campus
5 Admissions
6 Employment outcomes
7 Costs and student debt
8 Rankings
9 Notable alumni
9.1 Congress
9.2 Federal government
9.3 Federal judiciary
9.4 State government
9.5 Business
9.6 Non-profit
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]
Catholic University of America began offering instruction in law in 1895 as part of its decision to open "faculties for the laity."[1] The department was turned into an official school in 1898.[1]
Catholic University’s law school has established a progressive history of inclusion. Its first African-American student was enrolled in 1902; its first female student in 1922.
In 1919, the Knights of Columbus founded an educational program known as Columbus University which provided evening an evening education program for Catholic war veterans returning from World War I. This institution was closely affiliated with Catholic University and shared faculty at both institutions' Washington, D.C. locations.
In 1954 Columbus University (now consisting only of an evening law school) merged with Catholic University's law school to form the Columbus School of Law. The law school has been accredited by the Association of American Law Schools since 1921[5] and the American Bar Association since 1925.[6]
Academics[edit]
Curriculum[edit]
Columbus School of Law
Catholic University's J.D. program can be completed over three years of full-time day study or four years of part-time evening study.
The first-year curriculum is prescribed for all students. The day-division curriculum consists of seven required courses totaling 29 credit hours.[7] Evening-division students are required to complete the same basic courses within the first two years of their law school career. Revised for 2013, the new curriculum is designed to strengthen first-year doctrinal courses, to support the development of practice-area concentrations, and to emphasize training that will help graduates transition to the real world of practice.
The upper-division curriculum comprises several requirements, courses that are strongly recommended, and elective options. CUA Law students must complete a minimum of 84 credits to earn the J.D. degree. Required upper division courses include Constitutional Law II, Professional Responsibility, Professional Skills, and Upper-Level Writing.[7] The law school is developing a Transition-to-Practice requirement for students. This new requirement is expected to be fulfilled by taking either a clinical course, or a capstone course. Foundational courses for all areas of legal practice—and thus strongly recommended for all Upper Division students— include Evidence, Corporations, and Criminal Procedure.
To respond to increasing demand for specialized legal services, the Law School has developed practice-area concentrations for upper division students in Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment Law and Securities Regulation.[8]
Degrees offered[edit]
In addition to the J.D. program, the school offers LL.M. programs in Law & Technology, Securities Law, and Comparative and International Law.[9]
The school also offers an LL.M. program in American law with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.[10] It allows Jagiellonian law students and students enrolled in the CUA-JU LL.M. program to study the essential substantive and procedural elements of the legal system of the United States.
The school offers a M.L.S. degree program, which enhances the ability of professionals to work with lawyers and legal issues, to gain a deeper knowledge of a particular legal field, and to understand laws and regulations. Students can choose to concentrate in the fields of Compliance and Corporate Responsibility, Employment and Human Resources, or Intellectual Property. Alternatively, students may choose a General U.S. Law option, which provides a broad overview of the law and legal practice.
Faculty[edit]
CUA Law had 42 full-time faculty members as of 2013.[2] The school's student-faculty ratio was 10.27 to 1.
Institutes and programs[edit]
CUA Law offers five opportunities for specialized legal study; four of them are certificate-granting.[8] The programs are designed to give students the opportunity to pursue a specified concentration of courses. Each institute accepts approximately 15 students each academic year. They are:
Law and Technology Institute
Comparative and International Law Institute
Law and Public Policy Program
Securities and Corporate Law Program
Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion
Experiential learning[edit]
Founded in 1969, Columbus Community Legal Services offers four legal clinics that offer students hands-on learning. The Columbus Community Legal Services clinics include the General Practice Clinic; the Families and the Law Clinic; Advocacy for the Elderly, and the Consumer Protection Clinic.[11] In addition, the school offers the Criminal Prosecution Clinic, the Immigration Litigation Clinic, the Innocence Project Clinic and Clemency Project, the Virginia Criminal Defense Clinic, and an SEC Student Observer Program. [12]
The Columbus School of Law has an extensive legal externship program through which about 200 upperclass students per year earn course credits during the fall, spring, and summer by working in nonprofit organizations; federal, state, and local government agencies; Congress; and for judges, law firms, trade associations and corporations in the D.C. area.[13]
Publications[edit]
The Columbus School of Law has three student-edited law journals:[14]
Catholic University Law Review
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
Student life[edit]
CUA Law enrolled a total of 519 students for the 2013-2014, 65.9% of whom were full-time students.[2] The school's incoming class included 161 students.[2]
CUA Law had the third largest drop in enrollment between the 2010-2011 academic year and the 2013-2014 academic year with enrollment falling 39.5%.[15]
There are more than 30 active student organizations on campus.[16]
The school has a moot court program, with teams practicing in international law, communications law, labor law, constitutional law, securities law, national security, and a trials competition.[17] The moot court team holds an annual inter-school competition between 1Ls called SoapBox.[18]
Campus[edit]
Completed in 1994, the law building contains the Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library, the Walter A. Slowinski and Haislip and Yewell Courtrooms, and the three-story Keelty Atrium. It features a cafeteria, student lockers, an underground attached parking garage, and an ATM. The Columbus School of Law is located on the campus of the Catholic University of America and law students have access to many of the same services and facilities as undergraduate students.
Admissions[edit]
CUA Law had a 55.4% acceptance rate in 2013 with the school receiving 1,869 applications.[2] The school's matriculation rate was 15.6%, with 161 of the 1,035 admits enrolling.[2]
The median LSAT and GPA was 154 and 3.21 for students entering in Fall 2013.[19]
Employment outcomes[edit]
According to CUA Law's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 49% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, employment requiring bar passage nine months after graduation.[4] None of those jobs were school-funded positions.[4]
CUA Law ranked 150th out of the 201 ABA-approved law schools in terms of the percentage of 2013 graduates with non-school-funded, full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs nine months after graduation.[20]
CUA Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 26.1%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[19]
The majority of CUA Law 2013 graduates were employed in Washington, D.C., Maryland or Virginia nine months after graduation.[4]
Costs and student debt[edit]
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, living expenses and health insurance) at CUA Law for the 2013-2014 academic year is $70,212.[21] The average annual increase in tuition and fees at CUA Law for the past five years has been 4.02%.[22]
The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $269,220.[23] According to U.S. News & World Report, the average indebtedness of 2013 graduates who incurred law school debt was $144,801 (not including undergraduate debt), and 86% of 2013 graduates took on debt.[24]
Rankings[edit]
In the 2014 "Best Graduate Schools" edition of U.S. News & World Report, the Columbus School of Law was ranked 107th,[3] down from 80th in the previous year's rankings.[25]
Notable alumni[edit]
Congress[edit]
Bob Casey Jr., U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, 1988[26]
Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator for Iowa, 1972[26]
Kathy Hochul, U.S. Representative for New York, 1983[26]
Federal government[edit]
Kathleen Q. Abernathy, former Federal Communications Commission Commissioner [26]
Naomi C. Earp, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member[26]
John H. Fanning, former National Labor Relations Board Chair [27]
Daniel M. Gallagher, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[26]
Federal judiciary[edit]
Edward J. Damich, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims[26]
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court[26]
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Christine Luchok Fallon, Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court[26]
State government[edit]
Martin Connor, New York State Senator[28]
Susan Longley, State Senator from Maine[26]
Peggy A. Quince, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court[26]
Robert A. Watson, Rhode Island House Minority Leader[26]
Business[edit]
Michael Bidwill, Arizona Cardinals President[26]
Non-profit[edit]
Alexandra Dunn, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Environmental Counsel of States
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c "Columbus School of Law: History". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "The Catholic University of America 2013 Standard 509 Information Report" (PDF). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/the-catholic-university-of-america-03030. Retrieved 16 March 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Employment Summary for 2013 Graduates" (PDF). Retrieved 3 October 2015.
Jump up ^ "AALS Member and Fee-Paid Schools". AALS. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Alphabetical School List". ABA. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b "Course Requirements, First-Year Courses". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b "Certificate Programs and Concentrations". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "LL.M. Program". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "LL.M. Program offered by CUA in cooperation with Jagiellonian University". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Columbus Community Legal Services". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Clinics and Practical Training". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Legal Externships". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Journals". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Cooley, NYLS have largest enrollment declines since 2010-2011". National Jurist. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "CUA Law Student Organizations". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Moot Court". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "SoapBox". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b "Catholic University of America Profile". Law School Transparency. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ Leichter, Matt. "Class of 2013 Employment Report". The Law School Tuition Bubble. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Cost of Attendance". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Catholic University of America Profile". Law School Transparency. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Catholic University of America Profile, Cost". Law School Transparency. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Law School Debt Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Top 2014 Law School Rankings". Top-Law-Schools.com. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m "CUA Law Notable Alumni". Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ Flint, Peter. "John Harold Fanning Dies at 73; A Chief of Labor Relations Board". New York Times. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Biographical Profile for Martin Connor". Vote NY. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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