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Suffolk University Law School

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Suffolk University Law School is a private law school in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The fourth oldest law school in New England in continuous existence (after only Harvard, Yale, and Boston University), Suffolk was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer, Sr. to provide a legal education for those who traditionally lacked the opportunity to study law because of socio-economic or racial discrimination. Originally a school that admitted men only (with New England School of Law as its sister school), Suffolk has been co-educational since 1937.

Suffolk Law School
Suff
Motto“Honestas et Diligentia"
TypePrivate
Established1906
PresidentDavid Sargent
DeanAlfred C. Aman, Jr.
Students1,672
Location
Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
USA
CampusUrban
Websitewww.law.suffolk.edu
Sargent Hall

The law school currently has both day and evening (part-time) divisions. The school is located in the newly built Sargent Hall on Tremont Street in downtown Boston. There are over 200 upper level electives offered at the law school, and the school is consistently ranked one of the most technologically advanced schools in the nation while being ranked in the third tier overall for law schools within the U.S. [1][2] Admission to Suffolk is somewhat competitive. In 2005, 43% of applicants were admitted to the law school.[3] Suffolk regularly publishes five law reviews, to which students, faculty, and other scholars contribute. The school is featured annually in the Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Suffolk has attracted notable scholars and prominent speakers ranging from John F. Kennedy to William Rehnquist to Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Suffolk University alumni are found in high level judicial, political, and private positions throughout the United States. With nearly 17,000 alumni, Suffolk is one of the largest law schools in the Northeast.

Admissions

In 2005 the median GPA for incoming Suffolk Law students was 3.30, and the median LSAT score was 157. The admission rate for 2005 was 43%. A breakdown of the various degree programs reveals that for certain programs the selectivity can dramatically increase,such as the LL.M. program.[4]

Curriculum

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Suffolk in the early twentieth century, featuring a neon sign on the roof

Suffolk Law maintains a traditional first-year curriculum which includes the year-long courses of Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property, Torts, and Legal Writing, in addition to the semester-long Constitutional Law and Criminal Law courses. Until recently, students were also required to take a class in their second year, Fiduciary Relations, which concentrated on the law of Agency and Trusts. Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year though, this class was no longer a requirement for the J.D. program. Upon completion of the required curriculum, students at Suffolk choose from over 200 upper-level courses, many of which focus on learning practical skills.

In addition to J.D. and LL.M., Suffolk University Law School offers joint degrees with Suffolk's Sawyer Business School (J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.S.F., J.D./M.P.A.), and the Suffolk University College of Arts and Sciences (J.D./M.S.C.J., J.D./M.S.I.E.).[5]

Suffolk Law also offers a program abroad: the Semester in Sweden Program with Lund University, a university where Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg conducted research for her book on Swedish Law in the 1960s.[1]

Libraries

In 1999, after construction on a new home for the law school was completed, the John Joseph Moakley Library moved to its new home in Sargent Hall. The library contains over 350,000 volumes covering all major areas of American law and primary legal materials from the federal government, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the European Union. The library also features a substantial treatise and periodical collection and houses the John Joseph Moakley Archive (a collection of the late representative's papers which he gifted to the school in 2001).[6]

Law Review publications

Suffolk University Law School maintains five student-run publications. The Suffolk University Law Review is the oldest scholarly publication at the law school. Suffolk's Journal of High Technology Law focuses on providing research articles on issues of copyright, trademark and patent law. The Suffolk Transnational Law Review is one of approximately 30 law reviews in the United States that focus on international legal issues and the second oldest in existence (after the Harvard International Law Journal). The Moot Court Board, which runs many of the school's mock trial competitions, publishes the Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy, which deals with the current landscape of trial and appellate practice in the United States. Suffolk recently recognized a fifth journal, the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law, which focuses on cutting-edge legal developments in the field of health law.[7]

Suffolk Law School in literature, film and culture

Prominent alumni

 
Joe Moakley, Class of 1956, former U.S. Congressman
 
Marty Meehan, Class of 1983, Chancellor of UMASS, Lowell, former U.S. Congressman
 
James Bamford, Class of 1975, author

Prominent faculty and trustees

Honorary degree recipients and speakers

Notes

  1. ^ Linda, Bayer "Ruth Bader Ginsburg"(Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000), 46.

See also

Template:Law schools in Massachusetts

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