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UC College of Law, opened in 1833, is the fourth-oldest continuing operating law school in the country.

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Since its founding 175 years ago, the University of Cincinnati College of Law has found opportunity on the frontier. In the early days, it was a physical frontier as Timothy Walker, Edward King, and Judge John C. Wright established a small school on the western edge of a growing nation. But even then, the College of Law was marked as one of the nation’s premier law schools.

Today, the College of Law still enjoys a reputation as a premier small, urban, public school. The passion and dedication of the many distinguished faculty and alumni have kept the College on the frontiers of legal inquiry and legal education reform—and also kept it a place where ambitious students could acquire the legal skills and perspective needed to improve themselves and change their world.

The College of Law offers the J.D. program to fewer than 400 students. The law school boasts institutes and clinics in the areas of human rights, social justice, law and psychiatry, corporate law, domestic relations/domestic violence, and negotiation. In addition, it offers six joint degree programs, enabling students to pursue a law degree in addition to a specialty area.

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University of Cincinnati College of Law graduates are highly qualified attorneys. UC graduates placed second of all nine Ohio law schools in results from the latest Ohio Bar Exam. Graduates passed the July 2007 test at an overall rate of 85 percent, compared to a state-wide average of 81.3 percent.

Distinguished alumni of the law school include U.S. President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft (1880), well-known attorney Stanley Chesley (‘60), and numerous judges including the Hon. Theodore Berry (‘31), Marianna Brown Bettman (‘77), and Ann Marie Tracey (‘75).