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The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by ''U.S. News & World Report'',. It offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.), Master of Laws (LL.M.), Master of Comparative Laws (LL.C.M.), and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.). The entering class typically consists of approximately 250 students, and admission is highly competitive. For the class entering in the fall of 2014, 16% out of 5859 applicants were offered admission, with 250 matriculating. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2014 entering class were 164 and 170, respectively, with a median of 169. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.52 and 3.95, respectively, with a median of 3.89.〔()〕 Penn Law's July 2012 Pennsylvania Bar Examination passage rate was 96.08%.〔http://www.pabarexam.org/pdf/statistics/july/j2012.pdf〕 The Law School is one of the "T14" law schools, that is, schools that have consistently ranked within the top 14 law schools since ''U.S. News & World Report'' began publishing rankings. The Law School emphasizes cross-disciplinary education, through courses, certificates, and joint/dual degree programs with the other graduate and professional schools on the Penn campus, such as the Wharton School. The school prides itself on its collegiality and the importance it places on diversity. Over a third of students identify as persons of color, and 12% of students enrolled with an advanced degree. Although well known for its corporate and criminal law faculty, the Law School offers an extensive curriculum and hosts various student groups, research centers and activities. Students publish the ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review'', the oldest law journal in the country.〔("University of Pennsylvania Law School Sesquicentennial History" ), University of Pennsylvania Almanac, accessed 15 Sep 2011〕 Among the school's alumni are a US Supreme Court Justice, several state Supreme Court Justices and supreme court justices of foreign countries, as well as several founders of law firms, university presidents and deans, business entrepreneurs, and politicians. According to Penn's 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 94.24% of the Class of 2014 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners. ==History== The University of Pennsylvania Law School traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1790 by James Wilson, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. Penn began offering a full-time program in law in 1850, under the leadership of George Sharswood.〔 In 1852, Penn was the first law school in the nation to publish a law journal still in existence, then called The American Law Register, which was later renamed to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, one of the most-cited law journals in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking )〕 William Draper Lewis was named dean in 1896.〔 In 1900, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania approved a move to the Law School's current location at the intersection of 34th and Chestnut.〔Owen Roberts, William Draper Lewis, 98 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1949)〕 Under Lewis' deanship, the law school was one of the first schools to emphasize legal teaching by full-time professors instead of practitioners, a system that is still followed today.〔 As legal education became more formalized, the school initiated a three-year curriculum and instituted stringent admissions requirements. While the School continued to accept students that did not hold a bachelor's degree, it warned applicants that "() large number of those who study law are college graduates; and those who are not cannot hope, except in rare instances, to compete successfully with the college man."〔"Department of Law," Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1899-1900 234 (1899).〕 After 30 years with the law school, Lewis eventually founded the American Law Institute, in 1925, which was seated in the law school and was chaired by Lewis himself. The ALI was later chaired by another of Penn Law's Deans, Herbert Funk Goodrich. Two years before Goodrich was named Dean, the Law School graduated with a J.D. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (in 1927), the first African-American woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in the United States (also from the University of Pennsylvania, in economics).〔 The first woman to join the faculty was Martha Field in 1969, now a professor at Harvard Law School, while the first black woman to join the faculty was Regina Austin (in 1977) who is still teaching at Penn.〔 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「University of Pennsylvania Law School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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