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The Ave Maria School of Law, founded in 1999, is an ABA-accredited Roman Catholic law school, located in Naples, Florida.〔American Bar Association Grants Full Accreditation to Ave Maria School of Law () 〕 In the 2014-2015 academic year, there were over 270 students enrolled from a variety of states, countries, and undergraduate institutions.〔(Ave Maria School of Law: In Brief )〕 Classes commenced in the fall semester of 2000. Ave Maria School of Law offers a full-time three year Juris Doctor (J.D.) program that complements a traditional legal education based on the Socratic Method with an emphasis on how the law intersects with the Catholic intellectual tradition and natural law philosophy. The curriculum of Ave Maria School of Law includes a three-semester Research, Writing and Advocacy Program as well as several required courses that focus on law and ethics.〔(Curriculum )〕 The school also offers various summer courses. 〔()〕 Ave Maria devotes four core classes to the interrelationship between law, ethics, and Catholic moral and social principles. 〔()〕 According to Ave Maria's 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 59.1% of the Class of 2014 obtained employment in professional positions or those in which a JD is an advantage nine months after graduation.〔()〕 ==History and governance== Thomas S. Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza and former owner of the Detroit Tigers, supports the school through his Ave Maria Foundation and has served as the chairman of the board of governors of the school, which also includes Adam Cardinal Maida, and Frank Joseph Dewane and included, before their deaths, Cardinal Edward Egan, Bowie Kuhn and John Cardinal O'Connor.〔(Board of Governors List )〕 Ave Maria School of Law was founded in 1999, and for the first nine years of its existence was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The law school's beginnings lie in discussions between future Founding Dean Bernard Dobranski and Monaghan. The school currently has 29 full- and part-time faculty.〔()〕 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia assisted Ave Maria School of Law leadership in developing the school's curriculum, and in 1999 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the school's first annual Ave Maria Lecture.〔(Lectures )〕 Former professors include Robert Bork.〔(Faculty Profiles )〕 The school moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Naples, Florida, opening in the new location in August 2009. Dean Kevin Cieply, JD, LLM, became the third President and Dean of the Law School effective July 1, 2014.〔http://www.avemarialaw.edu/faculty/presidentanddean〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ave Maria School of Law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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