Kendrick Hall
Completely renovated in 2003, Kendrick Hall is home to lecture halls, seminar rooms, a moot court room, faculty and administrative offices, student lounge and meeting space, an art gallery, and soaring atrium.
Quick Facts
The University of San Francisco School of Law was founded in 1912. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
It is part of the University of San Francisco, a private, nonprofit, Jesuit university founded in 1855. The USF School of Law is ranked the sixth most ethnically diverse law school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
Admission
Number of JD Applicants for Fall 2017 Class: 1,788
Number Enrolled: 143
2017-2018 Tuition: $24,525 per semester for full-time JD students, and $1,755 per unit for part-time JD students
Financial Aid: Approximately 90 percent of students receive financial aid including scholarships and/or federal or private loans.
Academics
Accreditation
The Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
Contact info: 312 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654. www.americanbar.org/legaled
Degrees Offered
JD, JD/MBA, JD/MUPA, LLM in International Transactions and Comparative Law, LLM in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, LLM in Taxation, Master of Legal Studies in Taxation (MLST), 3+3 Bachelor's and JD
JD Certificate Programs
Business Law, International and Comparative Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Labor and Employment Law, Public Interest Law, Tax Law
Centers and Institutes
McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Center for Law and Ethics
International Programs
Summer programs and semester exchanges are offered in China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, and Vietnam.
Law Clinics
Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Employment, Entrepreneurial Ventures, Immigration and Deportation Defense, International Human Rights, Internet and Intellectual Property Justice, Investor Justice, Mediation, and Racial Justice.
Students
Total Enrollment
- JD Students: 458
- LLM Students: 47
- MLST Students: 54
Fall 2017 JD Class Profile
- Women: 53%
- Students of Color: 52%
- Number of undergraduate schools represented: 80
Top California Feeder Schools
- San Francisco State University
- UC Berkeley
- UC Davis
- UC Irvine
- UC Los Angeles
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- UC Santa Cruz
- University of San Diego
- University of San Francisco
Top Out-of-State Feeder Schools
- Gonzaga University
- Indiana University — Bloomington
- Loyola University — Louisiana
- New York University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Nevada — Reno
- University of Oregon
- University of Utah
Student Government
- Student Bar Association
Student Organizations (partial list)
- Pride Law
- Business Law Association
- Black Law Students Association
- International Law Society
- Women's Law Association
Faculty
Full-Time and Tenured Faculty: 40
Part-time Faculty: 76
Alumni
Number of Alumni: 9,700
Approximately 74 percent of alumni are located in California, with more than half in the San Francisco Bay Area.
From the law school's founding in 1912 to today, approximately 330 alumni have become judges.
Publications
University of San Francisco Law Review, Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Maritime Law Journal
Facilities
The USF School of Law is housed in the Koret Law Center, comprising Kendrick Hall and the Dorraine Zief Law Library. The School of Law is part of the 55-acre USF campus, perched on a hilltop in a residential neighborhood overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Park, and downtown.
Dorraine Zief Law Library
Built in 2000, the library is a 49,000-square-foot, three-story facility fully equipped with the most advanced technological infrastructure and more than 350,000 volumes of print and electronic legal materials.
Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Policy
The University is an equal opportunity institution of higher learning education. As a matter of policy, the University does not discriminate in employment, educational services, and academic programs on the basis of an individual's race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age (except minors), sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition (cancer-related and genetic-related), and disability, and on other bases prohibited by law. The University reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities under the law.
Contact Info
Office of Communications
Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
52%
Students of Color, and 53% Women