Impact

• One of the most diverse law schools in the nation
• 2022 Incoming Class:
  • 37% Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
  • 32% First Generation College Students
  • 28% LGBTQ+
• The Gregoire Fellows Program provides scholarships, stipends, mentoring support, and clerkships for two students each year to help support diversity in the legal profession.

See Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for more information.

• Our acclaimed Access Admission Program provides a pathway to law school and legal careers for students from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities.
• Full Circle Scholarship — one of first of its kind in the nation – helps formerly incarcerated students become lawyers.
• Flex JD, our new hybrid-online part-time JD program, makes it possible for students with work and family commitments to earn a law degree and enter the legal profession.

2023 U.S. News & World Report Rankings

• #6 Legal Writing Program
• Top 30 Clinical Training Program
• Top 35 Part-time JD Program

Professor Robert Chang leads the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, dedicated to advancing justice and equality and combatting discrimination. See Korematsu Center Turns 10 (PDF) in Lawyer Magazine, Fall 2019

Professor Sara Rankin and her students advance the rights of homeless individuals through the Homeless Rights Advocacy Project. See Poverty Warriors (PDF) in Lawyer Magazine, Fall 2018

Professor Charles R.T. O’Kelley’s Berle Center facilitates the study of corporations and the economic system. See Berle Center Marks 10 Years (PDF) in Lawyer Magazine, Spring 2020

In recent years, dramatic changes in the use of technology in law practice and recognition of the impact of bias on the justice system have influenced legal education, including externship courses. While there are a number of excellent books on how to design and teach in-house clinical courses, to date there is no comprehensive book on best practices for designing and teaching externship courses. This book fills that gap.

Gillian Dutton, Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills
Externship Pedagogy and Practice, Carolina Academic Pres (2023).

There is no topic in regulatory policy that is more pressing and more controversial than what to do about the tech giants — Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. The tech giants should not be broken up. Congress should instead amend the Sherman Act to prohibit exclusionary conduct that significantly reduces competition. This careful expansion would make it much easier to deter tech giant exclusion that harms consumers or workers.

John Kirkwood, Professor of Law
Tech Giant Exclusion, Fla. L. Rev. (2021).

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises. As governments fail to respond to each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. Mutual aid — which is survival work when performed alongside social movement demands for transformative change — is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing.

Dean Spade, Professor of Law
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And The Next) (Verso Press 2020).