The USC Gould School of Law located in Los Angeles , California , is the law school of the University of Southern California . The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States , USC Law traces its beginnings to 1896 and became affiliated with USC in 1900. It was named in honor of Judge James Gould in the mid-1960s.
132-783: On March 12, 1890, the Los Angeles Times declared in an editorial: "It is time that a law school should be established in Los Angeles." During the 1890s, there were several false starts at founding the first law school in Southern California . At its founding in 1891, Throop University (better known today as the California Institute of Technology ) announced its intent to include a college of law among its various planned components, but never actually started one. The Southern California College of Law
264-558: A law library and $ 200 in cash), which took two more years. USC Law joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1907. It has been an American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school since 1924. By the mid-1940s, young people in Southern California who wished to obtain a high-quality legal education faced a difficult choice: they had to find some way to pay the USC School of Law's expensive tuition, settle for
396-501: A 168-page magazine about the opening of the sports arena. The magazine's editors and writers were not informed of the agreement, which breached the Chinese wall that traditionally has separated advertising from journalistic functions at American newspapers. Publisher Mark Willes also had not prevented advertisers from pressuring reporters in other sections of the newspaper to write stories favorable to their point of view. Michael Kinsley
528-788: A Democratic newspaper, were both afternoon competitors. By the mid-1940s, the Times was the leading newspaper in terms of circulation in the Greater Los Angeles . In 1948, it launched the Los Angeles Mirror , an afternoon tabloid, to compete with both the Daily News and the merged Herald-Express . In 1954, the Mirror absorbed the Daily News . The combined paper, the Mirror-News , ceased publication in 1962, when
660-534: A May 2007, mostly voluntary, reduction in force , characterized the decrease in circulation as an "industry-wide problem" which the paper had to counter by "growing rapidly on-line", "break[ing] news on the Web and explain[ing] and analyz[ing] it in our newspaper." The Times closed its San Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to Orange County . Also that year
792-615: A bill had been passed to create a "school of law" at UCLA even though Hastings was supposed to be the UC "law department" and decided that Berkeley could get away with the same thing. Although Berkeley and Hastings were notorious for their coldly distant relationship, Prosser and the dean at Hastings, David E. Snodgrass, had been personal friends since their days as classmates at Harvard College . Thus, Snodgrass openly supported Berkeley's name change and Prosser agreed to not challenge legislative appropriations for Hastings. Effective July 1, 1950,
924-649: A center dedicated to data on redistricting and voting rights, and the Institute for Legal Research. Berkeley Law has several clinical programs and centers that allow students to gain practical experience advocating for social justice and assisting low-income or marginalized individuals. These opportunities include the Death Penalty Clinic, Policy Advocacy Clinic, Veterans Law Practicum, and Domestic Law Violence Practicum. Many clinics, externships, field placements, and programs are hosted in partnership with
1056-545: A condition of his widow's donation. This was the first time in UC Berkeley's history that the name of a building had been removed because its eponym's values did not align with those of the university. Going forward, the law school building will now be known simply as the Law Building. (UCLA and UC Irvine have always used the term "Law Building" to describe the homes of their respective law schools.) In April 2023,
1188-682: A course in Roman law to Berkeley seniors. Jones envisioned that the new department would be less vocational and more academic in comparison to the existing Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Initially, the department was merely intended to broaden Berkeley undergraduates' academic knowledge of the law. Students who wished to learn how to actually practice law were referred to Hastings, where coursework already completed at Berkeley could count towards earning Hastings law degrees. In 1901,
1320-405: A deep hole in the middle of the law school's courtyard, put the law library stacks two levels underground, and installed powered compact shelving units that move at the touch of a button. At ground level, they built a glass pavilion housing classrooms, a student lounge, and a cafe, all of which is topped off by a rooftop garden accessible by a second-floor bridge. The North Addition is now home to
1452-513: A five-area domestic and international field placement program for experiential learning in specific areas of the law. These institutes are located both on the UC Berkeley campus and in other regions of the greater San Francisco Bay Area , and are often conducted through partnerships with attorneys, interest groups, law firms, and corporations throughout Northern California and the United States. In addition to these centers, students are given
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#17327910353261584-418: A great catastrophe for Hastings. Both law schools had started with one full-time law professor aided by part-time instructors who were practicing lawyers, but only Berkeley made the rapid transition to hiring enough full-time lecturers and professors to teach the majority of its courses and then tightened up its requirements for student admissions and faculty hiring. Berkeley quickly eclipsed Hastings and pushed
1716-622: A joint law review, or that all the state's law schools could join forces to produce a single law review. After Berkeley rejected both proposals, Coffman persuaded the Board of Regents in 1952 to provide a full subsidy for the UCLA Law Review , and then in 1953, Berkeley demanded and obtained a similar subsidy for the California Law Review , which became a regular budget item for the law school. Through his alliance with
1848-505: A law school and was still a mere department within the College of Letters. On November 12, 1912, the Board of Regents voted to approve the recommendation of a special committee made up of attorney regents for the organization of a School of Jurisprudence at Berkeley. Jones was appointed as the first dean of the new school. He continued to serve in that capacity until his retirement on June 30, 1923. After World War I ended in 1918,
1980-412: A law school but were often confused as to whether the name "Boalt Hall" referred to a separate institution. Despite the official name change, "Boalt Hall" continued to be used as the name of the law school's primary building and to refer to the law school informally for another 12 years. By 2009, Berkeley Law was again desperately short of space, because the faculty had increased by about 25 percent over
2112-525: A lesser program, or move north to attend the state's existing public law schools at Berkeley Law or Hastings . The California State Legislature responded to this problem in 1947 by creating the first public law school in the Southland (and USC's crosstown rival): the UCLA School of Law . UCLA Law graduate Dorothy Wright Nelson served as dean of USC Law from 1969 to 1980, before becoming a judge on
2244-528: A local Metromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults. A free weekly tabloid print edition of Metromix Los Angeles followed in February 2008; the publication was the newspaper's first stand-alone print weekly. In 2009, the Times shut down Metromix and replaced it with Brand X , a blog site and free weekly tabloid targeting young, social networking readers. Brand X launched in March 2009;
2376-482: A median of 168. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.65 and 3.92, respectively, with a median of 3.81. For a typical class in the J.D. program, the average age of admitted students is 25 years old, with ages ranging from 21 to 46 years old. The student-faculty ratio is nearly 6:1. Berkeley Law is unique among most law schools for having a class usually composed of 60% women and 40% men. Berkeley Law has approximately 850 J.D. students, 200 students in
2508-494: A new board of trustees, a different address, and 10 students. Although the two law schools were entirely distinct legal entities, the students of the old law school regarded the new law school as a continuation of their program and immediately enrolled in the new one. In 1904, USC took over the Los Angeles College of Law, then set about acquiring the remaining assets of the now-dormant Los Angeles Law School (namely,
2640-435: A new department embracing: (1) Constitutional Law of the United States , (2) International Law , (3) Roman Law , and (4) Jurisprudence ". This resolution had emerged from a subcommittee of the Board of Regents whose members were all lawyers. Jones personally taught all the new department's courses for the first three years. According to Jones, the inspiration for the department came from his experience in 1882 teaching
2772-538: A number of major publications and writers, including The New York Times , Boston Globe critic Ty Burr , Washington Post blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, and the websites The A.V. Club and Flavorwire , announced that they would boycott press screenings of future Disney films. The National Society of Film Critics , Los Angeles Film Critics Association , New York Film Critics Circle , and Boston Society of Film Critics jointly announced that Disney's films would be ineligible for their respective year-end awards unless
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#17327910353262904-524: A pre-law program, but rather as a liberal arts program "that can encourage sustained reflection on fundamental values." Berkeley Law has a chapter of the Order of the Coif , a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession. The law school has been American Bar Association approved since 1923. It joined
3036-719: A semester abroad at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , Bocconi University , Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 , Bond University and Fundação Getúlio Vargas . Previously, students could pursue a J.D./LL.M dual degree with the London School of Economics . USC Gould maintains dual degree programs with the Marshall School of Business , the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
3168-558: A surge of interest in legal careers from G.I. Bill veterans and baby boomers . Hastings underwent rapid expansion to meet this demand, while in 1947, Southern Californians finally succeeded in persuading the state legislature to appropriate over a million dollars for the construction of a law school at the University of California, Los Angeles . The faculty at Berkeley came to understand that these developments were beneficial—in that they relieved pressure to compromise on their standards—which explains why they later supported and worked on
3300-473: A team of Times reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the Spring Street Project. The report, which condemned the Times as a "web-stupid" organization, was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website, and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating "change as a threat." On July 10, 2007, the Times launched
3432-561: A wave of young people flooded into American law schools, and by 1921, enrollment had grown to 285. This proved to be too much for the school's beautiful but tiny Beaux-Arts building, with everyone from the dean on down complaining incessantly for three decades about extreme overcrowding in Boalt Hall. The Great Depression caused even more young people to seek refuge from the economic crisis in law school, with enrollment reaching 297. By 1946, enrollment had stabilized at 275, but this
3564-460: Is $ 414,611. 34°01′05″N 118°17′01″W / 34.01806°N 118.28361°W / 34.01806; -118.28361 Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles , California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and
3696-520: Is 8.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2014 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at USC Gould for the 2024-2025 academic year is $ 109,558 if living on campus and $ 110,368 if living off campus. The Law School Transparency estimated cost for three years at USC Gould
3828-443: Is necessary. USC Gould also maintains two other dual degree programs. A program with the California Institute of Technology enables a student to receive a J.D. from USC and a Ph.D. in social science from Caltech. A dual degree program with the USC School of Pharmacy enables a qualified student to earn a J.D. and a Pharm.D. degree. In 2023, the overall bar examination passage rate for the law school’s first-time examination takers
3960-543: Is supposedly why the law building then looked so bland to visitors approaching along Bancroft Way from its west or east sides—and still looks bland on its west side today—because the "large blank walls" were originally intended to be the north and south ends of the building. To make them more attractive, it was decided to add large aluminum tablets with lengthy inscriptions, and Prosser personally selected quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin Cardozo . (In 1966,
4092-675: Is today known as Berkeley Law originated in 1894 as the Department of Jurisprudence of the University of California. On August 17, 1894, the Regents of the University of California approved a resolution for transmission to President Martin Kellogg which directed that the "branch of study" already under the supervision of Professor William Carey Jones was to be separated from the Department of History and Political Science "and formed into
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4224-482: Is unusual among most law schools but similar to the grading system used at Yale Law School , Harvard Law School , and Stanford Law School . Students are graded on a High Honors (HH), Honors (H), and Pass (P) scale. Approximately 60% of the students in each class receive a grade of Pass, 30% receive a grade of Honors, and the highest 10% receive a grade of High Honors; lower grades of Substandard Pass (or Pass Conditional, abbreviated PC) and No Credit (NC) may be awarded at
4356-629: The U.S. News & World Report list of "America's Best Graduate Schools" since the magazine has published an annual version of its rankings, ranking tied for 20th in 2024. In 2015, "The Law School 100", a ranking scheme that uses qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranked the law school 14th overall. It was listed with an "A−" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students . USC Gould hosts three academic journals and offers one additional honors program: Southern California Law Review , Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice (formerly
4488-608: The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1912. Berkeley Law offers combined degree programs with other schools within both the UC Berkeley campus and the broader University of California system, as well as joint master's degrees with Tufts University and Harvard University . In 2018, the school's bar passage rate was 90.9%. According to Berkeley's official ABA-required disclosures, over 90 percent of 2018 graduates obtained full-time, long-term, bar admission-required employment nine months after graduation. Since
4620-565: The Brand X tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month. In May 2018, the Times blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe because of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation . In 1999, it was revealed that a revenue-sharing arrangement was in place between the Times and Staples Center in the preparation of
4752-615: The Chicago Cubs baseball club. He put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest in Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Until shareholder approval was received, Los Angeles billionaires Ron Burkle and Eli Broad had the right to submit a higher bid, in which case Zell would have received a $ 25 million buyout fee. In December 2008, the Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection . The bankruptcy
4884-580: The Democratic presidential candidate, rejected this alternative to endorsement, and after Donald Trump , the Republican candidate, alluded to the newspaper not having endorsed Harris, Mariel Garza, the editor of the opinion section, resigned in protest, as did two other members of the editorial board, Robert Greene and Karin Klein. Two hundred Times staff signed a letter condemning the way in which
5016-660: The Hollywood Forever Cemetery near Paramount Studios . The site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims. In 1935, the newspaper moved to a new, landmark Art Deco building, the Los Angeles Times Building , to which the newspaper would add other facilities until taking up the entire city block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets, which came to be known as Times Mirror Square and would house
5148-624: The LL.M. and J.S.D. programs, and 45 students in the Ph.D. program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. The School also features specialized curricular programs in Business, Law and Economics, Comparative Legal Studies, Environmental Law, Public Interest & Social Justice, Critical Race Studies, International Legal Studies, and Law and Technology. Berkeley Law's grading system for the J.D. program
5280-638: The Los Angeles Daily Times , under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner . It was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T. J. Caystile . Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime, S. J. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the Times continued publication. In July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara, California to become
5412-572: The Los Angeles Register closed. UC Berkeley School of Law The University of California, Berkeley School of Law ( Berkeley Law ) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley . The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name. This came from its initial building, the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law, named for John Henry Boalt . This name
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5544-593: The Los Angeles Times under the Chandler family. The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history, Thinking Big (1977, ISBN 0-399-11766-0 ), and was one of four organizations profiled by David Halberstam in The Powers That Be (1979, ISBN 0-394-50381-3 ; 2000 reprint ISBN 0-252-06941-2 ). Between the 1960s and
5676-594: The Poynter Institute reported that " ' At least 50' editorial positions will be culled from the Los Angeles Times " through a buyout. Nancy Cleeland, who took O'Shea's buyout offer, did so because of "frustration with the paper's coverage of working people and organized labor" (the beat that earned her Pulitzer). She speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage of economic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited
5808-638: The Price School of Public Policy , the School of Social Work, the Davis School of Gerontology , and the Annenberg School of Communication . Dual degree programs are accelerated. If the non-law master's degree normally requires one year of study, a student in a dual degree program earns both degrees in only three years. If the master's degree normally requires two years, a total of four years
5940-633: The Review of Law and Women's Studies ), Interdisciplinary Law Journal , and the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. Selected law students can participate in one honors program in an academic year. The school has a chapter of the Order of the Coif , a national law school honorary society. USC Gould maintains six client clinics to provide students experience with lawyering skills. USC Gould offers international study abroad programs, providing credit to J.D. students. Students may spend
6072-538: The Times drew fire for a last-minute story before the California recall election alleging that gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career. Columnist Jill Stewart wrote on the American Reporter website that the Times did not do a story on allegations that former Governor Gray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office, and that
6204-564: The Times . Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler , who ran the paper during the rapid growth in Los Angeles following the end of World War II . Norman's wife, Dorothy Buffum Chandler , became active in civic affairs and led the effort to build the Los Angeles Music Center , whose main concert hall was named the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in her honor. Family members are buried at
6336-610: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . 2002 saw the beginning of the USC Law Graduate and International Programs. For the class entering in 2023, the school accepted 607 applicants (12.52%), with 178 of those accepted enrolling, a 29.32% yield rate. Eleven students were not included in the acceptance statistics. The class consists of 189 students. The median LSAT score was 169 and
6468-633: The University of California 's Washington campus, and hosts civil field placements and externships with the offices of various judges, United States Attorneys , Attorneys General, and other government offices. Other policy centers at the Law School include the Center for the Study of Law and Society (established in 1961), the Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs (established in 2000),
6600-662: The 1965 Watts Riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots . In the 19th century, the chief competition to the Times was the Los Angeles Examiner followed by the smaller Los Angeles Tribune . In December 1903, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst began publishing the Los Angeles Examiner as a direct morning competitor to the Times. In the 20th century, the Los Angeles Express , Manchester Boddy 's Los Angeles Daily News ,
6732-433: The 2018–2019 academic year is $ 85,315 for California residents and $ 89,266 for non-residents. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $ 282,442 for residents and $ 296,694 for non-residents. For students working in public interest law who will earn less than $ 70,000 annually, Berkeley Law offers a ten-year loan repayment assistance program (LRAP). Scholarships are offered on
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#17327910353266864-405: The Department of Jurisprudence at Berkeley began to rise in prestige, and Hastings began to fall, the students, faculty, and alumni of the department became quite vocal about turning the department into a real law school. The department was already distinguished enough by August 1912 to obtain admission to the Association of American Law Schools , even though it was not yet formally denominated as
6996-482: The Great Depression and then World War II. When it turned out the $ 1.35 million allocated by the state government would be insufficient, the School of Jurisprudence raised $ 885,000 from private sources to make up the difference. After World War II, the greatest problem facing the School of Jurisprudence was the considerable political pressure to ease up on admissions standards and grow larger to accommodate
7128-551: The Harvard method, the Los Angeles Law School collapsed that same year amidst bickering over pedagogical methods; some of the instructors preferred to teach law through the traditional lecture method in which students were expected to be much more passive. Several instructors who preferred the Harvard method immediately organized the Los Angeles College of Law, which was officially launched on September 30, 1901 with
7260-604: The Hearst afternoon Herald-Express and the morning Los Angeles Examiner merged to become the Herald-Examiner . The Herald-Examiner published its last number in 1989. In 2014, the Los Angeles Register , published by Freedom Communications, then-parent company of the Orange County Register , was launched as a daily newspaper to compete with the Times . By late September of that year, however,
7392-408: The Law Students’ Association of Los Angeles. They selected James B. Scott as the first preceptor (equivalent to a modern instructor). An informal course of instruction began two weeks later in Judge Morrison's courtroom. The students of the Association recognized that a more permanent arrangement was needed, and on June 12, 1897, the Los Angeles Law School was incorporated. Its first formal lecture
7524-485: The Robbins Collection (a separate library of religious and civil law materials) and the Visiting Scholar Program. On January 30, 2020, the UC Regents completely removed the name "Boalt Hall" from Berkeley's primary law school building and in all references made to the law school. The de-naming was the outcome of a nearly three-year process launched after a UC Berkeley lecturer discovered writings by John Henry Boalt expressing flagrantly racist views. In an e-mail sent to
7656-487: The School of Jurisprudence became the School of Law . The California Law Review was historically run as a nonprofit corporation independent of the School of Jurisprudence which relied largely on income from subscriptions and advertising. By 1948, this income was insufficient in the face of postwar inflation, and the law review was running up a budget deficit. L. Dale Coffman, UCLA Law's first dean, initially proposed in 1950 that either Berkeley and UCLA could produce
7788-401: The Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources. Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the Times decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources. The American Society of Newspaper Editors said that the Times lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of
7920-452: The Sunday edition. Garfield was dropped altogether shortly thereafter. Following the Republican Party 's defeat in the 2006 mid-term elections , an Opinion piece by Joshua Muravchik , a leading neoconservative and a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute , published on November 19, 2006, was titled 'Bomb Iran'. The article shocked some readers, with its hawkish comments in support of more unilateral action by
8052-420: The United States Earl Warren , U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk , U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese , U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chair of the Federal Reserve G. William Miller , President of the International Court of Justice Joan Donoghue , Mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee , Dallas Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery , and Nuremberg Trials prosecutor Whitney Robson Harris . The school that
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#17327910353268184-410: The United States, this time against Iran. On March 22, 2007, editorial page editor Andrés Martinez resigned following an alleged scandal centering on his girlfriend's professional relationship with a Hollywood producer who had been asked to guest-edit a section in the newspaper. In an open letter written upon leaving the paper, Martinez criticized the publication for allowing the Chinese wall between
8316-443: The ability and funding to create "SLPs," or student-initiated legal services projects. The Berkeley Center for Law and Business was established in 2004 and is the Law School's focal point for experiential learning in corporate law. It focus on issues of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financial fraud prosecution, capital markets, cybersecurity, antitrust compliance, and venture capital investments. The program also hosts
8448-413: The assumption of $ 90 million in pension liabilities, closed on June 16, 2018. In 2000, John Carroll , former editor of the Baltimore Sun , was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper. During his reign at the Times , he eliminated more than 200 jobs, but despite an operating profit margin of 20 percent, the Tribune executives were unsatisfied with returns, and by 2005 Carroll had left
8580-422: The basis of both merit and need. Named prizes include the Berkeley Law Opportunity Scholarship, which provides full tuition to first-generation college students, and the Hyundai-Kia Scholarships, which are given to students who demonstrate sustained and unique interest in law and technology. Stipends are also awarded for summer public service internships. Berkeley Law hosts over 21 centers, six primary clinics, and
8712-405: The brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty. Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a high frieze of the new Times headquarters building designed by Gordon Kaufmann , proclaiming anew the credo written by his wife, Eliza: "Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True". After Otis' death in 1917, his son-in-law and the paper's business manager, Harry Chandler , took control as publisher of
8844-431: The conservative regents who had hired him, Coffman was able to secure an unusual amount of autonomy for the law faculty at Los Angeles from the Academic Senate with respect to appointments, courses, and budgets. However, the resulting 1952 amendments to the regents' standing orders were so broadly worded as to affect all UC professional schools offering courses only at the graduate level. The amendments greatly benefited
8976-437: The creation of another UC law school at Davis during the 1960s. It was Berkeley's ability to hold the line on its elitist standards which led to its ascent to the top tier of American law schools by the 1990s. The founding of the UCLA School of Law greatly affected the existing School of Jurisprudence at Berkeley. The general pattern was that UCLA Law managed to secure to itself this or that privilege, and then either
9108-443: The decision was reversed, condemning the decision as being "antithetical to the principles of a free press and [setting] a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility towards journalists". On November 7, 2017, Disney reversed its decision, stating that the company "had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at the Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns". In October 2024, Soon-Shiong,
9240-420: The demands of the Tribune Group—as was publisher Jeffrey Johnson—and was replaced by James O'Shea of the Chicago Tribune . O'Shea himself left in January 2008 after a budget dispute with publisher David Hiller . The paper reported on July 3, 2008, that it planned to cut 250 jobs by Labor Day and reduce the number of published pages by 15 percent. That included about 17 percent of the news staff, as part of
9372-406: The discretion of professors. The top student in each class or section receives the Jurisprudence Award, while the second-place student receives the Prosser Prize. The faculty of Berkeley Law also provide academic direction and the bulk of the instruction for the undergraduate program in Legal Studies, which is organized as a major in Letters and Science . The Legal Studies program is not intended as
9504-429: The eastern side was later replaced with Simon Hall at the corner of Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue.) Ironically, Zeta Psi benefited from that particular location for only five more years. The fraternity was facing the same postwar growth pressures as the rest of UC Berkeley, and agreed with the university in 1956 to trade 2251 College Avenue for a larger building on a university-owned parcel at 2728 Bancroft Way (across
9636-405: The families grew larger, the later generations found that only one or two branches got the power, and everyone else got a share of the money. Eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, or disappeared. That's the pattern followed over more than a century by
9768-551: The festivities leading up to the celebration of Charter Day on March 23. The new law building was dedicated as the new Boalt Hall. The old law building was renamed Durant Hall. After housing the East Asian Library for five decades, it was renovated in 2010 to house the offices of the deans of the College of Letters and Science . A widely circulated but probably apocryphal story is that the original plans provided for
9900-591: The former president of General Mills , was criticized for his lack of understanding of the newspaper business, and was derisively referred to by reporters and editors as The Cereal Killer . Subsequently, the Orange County plant closed in 2010. The Times ' s reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449, down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990. In December 2006,
10032-471: The inception of the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings in the late 1980s, Berkeley Law has consistently ranked within the prestigious "T14" (top 14) group of schools. For the 2022–2023 academic year, USNWR ranked Berkeley Law as the ninth-best law school in the United States. In addition, USNWR ranked Berkeley Law first in corporate, IP, and environmental law and second in criminal law. In 2020, QS World Rankings ranked Berkeley Law as
10164-495: The joint J.D./ M.B.A. degree with Berkeley Law's adjoining Haas School of Business and national competitions for corporate negotiation. Other centers in business law include the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance (established in 1994) and the Law, Economics, and Politics Center. Constitutional and regulatory law centers at Berkeley include the new Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice that
10296-477: The largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions ,
10428-487: The latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler , who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United States, the paper's readership has declined since 2010. It has also been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018,
10560-402: The law building's architect, Warren Perry, which were deposited with UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library . Drawings dated as early as May 1945 show the law building in its current east–west orientation facing Bancroft Way to the south. Perry did mention in a 1953 letter that the law building "had to be crowded on a much smaller lot than was originally intended because of an immovable fraternity to
10692-608: The law faculty at Berkeley by granting them similar autonomy, but also engendered intense resentment towards them from the faculty of all other academic units at the Berkeley campus—who proceeded to strip the law faculty of the right to sit on any Academic Senate committee with power over appointments, courses, or budgets outside of the law school. The deep rupture between the law and non-law faculty caused great consternation for Clark Kerr throughout his term as Berkeley chancellor, as well as his early years as university president. It
10824-493: The law school became one of the first to announce a formal policy on the use of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT . Students would be allowed to use the technology for research or grammar checks but not on exams or composing assignment submissions, nor in such a way that would constitute plagiarism. However, the policy was a default, with individual professors allowed to shift from the rules if they gave prior written notice to students. Professor Chris Hoofnagle , who worked with
10956-421: The law school rebranded itself "Berkeley Law" to disentangle the confused usage which had grown over time confusing the formal name of the School of Law with the name of the building it occupied, and to more clearly align the school's name with its parent university. The administration hoped that this would improve the law school's national and international name recognition, as many individuals knew UC Berkeley had
11088-429: The local Zeta Psi fraternity refused to leave its fraternity house at 2251 College Avenue at the north end of the proposed building site. At the time, Zeta Psi had enough political influence with the Board of Regents and President Robert Gordon Sproul to stand their ground. As a result, the building plans were rotated counterclockwise in a hurry, to face Bancroft Way to the south along an east–west axis. This
11220-675: The median undergraduate GPA was 3.88. Ten students were not included in the LSAT calculation and four not included in the GPA calculation. Its 25th/75th percentile LSAT scores and GPA were 165/169 and 3.77/3.96. USC Gould awards the J.D. , LL.M. , and M.C.L. law degrees . It currently has about 600 J.D. students (200 per year) and a graduate program of about 200 LL.M. and M.C.L. students. It offers three certificate programs: business law, entertainment law, and alternative dispute resolution. USC Gould has consistently been ranked between 16th and 20th by
11352-402: The mid-2000s it was also the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications and social science. The Los Angeles Times has occupied five physical sites beginning in 1881. The Los Angeles Times was beset in the first decade of the 21st century by changes in ownership, a bankruptcy , a rapid succession of editors, reductions in staff, decreases in paid circulation,
11484-540: The nearby East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), which provides legal aid for disadvantaged Alameda County residents. Students can work with the EBCLC on issues such as juvenile justice, expungement of minor crimes, housing law, tax assistance, and small business establishment. Berkeley Law also hosts multiple centers, institutes, and initiatives producing research and scholarship on issues such as criminal justice reform, access to civil justice, and more. These centers include
11616-527: The need to increase its Web presence, and a series of controversies. In January 2024, the newsroom announced a roughly 20 percent reduction in staff, due to anemic subscription growth and other financial struggles. The newspaper moved to a new headquarters building in El Segundo , near Los Angeles International Airport , in July 2018. In 2000, Times Mirror Company , publisher of the Los Angeles Times ,
11748-561: The negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article. On November 12, 2005, new op-ed editor Andrés Martinez announced the dismissal of liberal op-ed columnist Robert Scheer and conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez . The Times also came under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the Garfield comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip Brevity , while retaining it in
11880-423: The new executive editor. Merida was then a senior vice president at ESPN and headed The Undefeated , a site focused on sports, race, and culture; he had previously been the first Black managing editor at The Washington Post . The Los Angeles Times Olympic Boulevard printing press was not purchased by Soon-Shiong and was kept by Tribune; in 2016 it was sold to developers who planned to build sound stages on
12012-417: The new law building's main facade, main entrance, and library windows to face west along a north–south axis along College Avenue, which was permanently closed north of Bancroft Way for the new project. Much of the upper level of the law building would have enjoyed a view of San Francisco Bay . (The building to the west that now obstructs that view did not exist in 1951.) However, the project went awry when
12144-503: The newly private media company's mandate to reduce costs. Hiller himself resigned on July 14. In January 2009, the Times eliminated the separate California/Metro section, folding it into the front section of the newspaper, and also announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial or a 10 percent cut in payroll. In September 2015, Austin Beutner , the publisher and chief executive, was replaced by Timothy E. Ryan . On October 5, 2015,
12276-492: The news and editorial departments to be weakened, accusing news staffers of lobbying the opinion desk. In November 2017, Walt Disney Studios blacklisted the Times from attending press screenings of its films, in retaliation for September 2017 reportage by the paper on Disney 's political influence in the Anaheim area. The company considered the coverage to be "biased and inaccurate". As a sign of condemnation and solidarity,
12408-429: The newspaper announced a layoff that would affect at least 115 employees. It named Terry Tang its next executive editor on April 8, 2024. The Times has suffered continued decline in distribution. Reasons offered for the circulation drop included a price increase and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version. Editor Jim O'Shea, in an internal memo announcing
12540-416: The newspaper. His successor, Dean Baquet , refused to impose the additional cutbacks mandated by the Tribune Company. Baquet was the first African-American to hold this type of editorial position at a top-tier daily. During Baquet and Carroll's time at the paper, it won 13 Pulitzer Prizes , more than any other paper except The New York Times . However, Baquet was removed from the editorship for not meeting
12672-430: The non-endorsement was handled, and thousands of subscribers cancelled their subscriptions. Soon-Shiong had previously blocked an endorsement by the editorial board in 2020, when he overruled their decision to endorse Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries . As of 2014, the Times has won 41 Pulitzer Prizes , including four in editorial cartooning, and one each in spot news reporting for
12804-414: The north", but never mentioned rotation. In other words, the law building was deliberately designed to avoid the preexisting fraternity house and the obvious flaws of its design cannot be blamed on a last-minute rotation. Perry had originally included large windows for the lecture halls; these were removed at the request of faculty members who thought the bay view would be too distracting. In April 2008,
12936-420: The number of faculty was increased to six by the hiring of one lecturer and two instructors, which enabled the department to offer courses adding up to two years of instruction. In 1902, the addition of four more lecturers enabled the department to provide a complete three-year law program and the referrals to Hastings were discontinued. On June 26, 1902, newspapers in San Francisco and Oakland reported that there
13068-413: The older law school into a severe decline which lasted over four decades. The law that affiliated Hastings with UC states: "The college is affiliated with the University of California, and is the law department thereof." According to UCLA political science professor J.A.C. Grant, the law school at Berkeley was euphemistically labeled a department (or later, school) of jurisprudence for decades because it
13200-563: The owner of the Times , told executive editor Terry Tang that the newspaper must not endorse a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election , but should instead print "a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation". The Times editorial board, which had been preparing to endorse Kamala Harris ,
13332-493: The paper announced its circulation had fallen to 851,532, down 5.4 percent from 2005. The Times ' s loss of circulation was the largest of the top ten newspapers in the U.S. Some observers believed that the drop was due to the retirement of circulation director Bert Tiffany. Others thought the decline was a side effect of a succession of short-lived editors who were appointed by publisher Mark Willes after publisher Otis Chandler relinquished day-to-day control in 1995. Willes,
13464-773: The paper joined with The Washington Post to form the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations. He also toned down the unyielding conservatism that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance. During the 1960s, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes , more than its previous nine decades combined. In 2013, Times reporter Michael Hiltzik wrote that: The first generations bought or founded their local paper for profits and also social and political influence (which often brought more profits). Their children enjoyed both profits and influence, but as
13596-434: The paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the rights to the water supply of the distant Owens Valley . The efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the bombing of its headquarters on October 1, 1910, killing 21 people. Two of the union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara , were charged. The American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent
13728-419: The paper underwent its largest percentage reduction in headcount—amounting to a layoff of over 20%, including senior staff editorial positions—in an effort to stem the tide of financial losses and maintain enough cash to be viably operational through the end of the year in a struggle for survival and relevance as a regional newspaper of diminished status. The Times was first published on December 4, 1881, as
13860-482: The paper until 2018. Harry Chandler , then the president and general manager of Times-Mirror Co. , declared the Los Angeles Times Building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California". The fourth generation of family publishers, Otis Chandler , held that position from 1960 till 1980. Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in
13992-508: The paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach. On August 21, 2017, Ross Levinsohn , then aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacing Davan Maharaj , who had been both publisher and editor. On June 16, 2018, the same day the sale to Patrick Soon-Shiong closed, Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor. On May 3, 2021, the newspaper announced that it had selected Kevin Merida to be
14124-481: The paper's editor. At the same time he also purchased a 1/4 stake in the paper for $ 6,000 mostly secured on a bank loan. Historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment". Otis's editorial policy was based on civic boosterism , extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends,
14256-600: The paper's staff voted to unionize and finalized their first union contract on October 16, 2019. The paper moved out of its historic headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to a facility in El Segundo, near the Los Angeles International Airport , in July 2018. Since 2020, the newspaper's coverage has evolved away from national and international news and toward coverage of California and especially Southern California news. In January 2024,
14388-418: The past four years. The law school launched a multi-year renovation and expansion project which was eventually completed in 2012. The most important improvement was to relocate and expand the law library into an underground facility under a new South Pavilion. Since the mid-1990s, the law library stacks had been crammed into conventional shelving in the law school's North Addition. Construction contractors dug
14520-438: The percentage of tenured faculty represented in specific specialty areas. Berkeley Law's tuition has increased in recent years. Currently, tuition and fees are $ 49,364 per year (in-state) and $ 53,315 per year (out-of-state). Most out-of-state students may claim in-state status in their second year of study. The total cost of attendance (adding estimated living expenses to the aforementioned tuition and fees) at Berkeley Law for
14652-434: The policy with two others, said it was an attempt to find a balance given how widespread the technology would become. The J.D. program's admissions process is highly selective, with Berkeley Law admitting 22% of all applicants who applied in 2020. Berkeley Law is known to value high undergraduate GPAs . The 25th and 75th Law School Admission Test (LSAT) percentiles for the Class of 2023 were 163 and 170, respectively, with
14784-517: The power centers of the Northeastern United States due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post . Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business", Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962,
14916-490: The printing plant closure and with a refocusing of sports coverage for editorial reasons, daily game coverage and box scores were eliminated on July 9, 2023. The sports section now features less time-sensitive articles, billed as similar to a magazine. The change caused some consternation in the Los Angeles Jewish community , for many of whom reading box scores was a morning Shabbat ritual. On January 23, 2024,
15048-421: The privilege also happened to inure to Berkeley's benefit, or Berkeley insisted on parity and got it. The most important one was the right to be formally called a law school. In 1948, William Lloyd Prosser visited UCLA after he was selected to become the next dean at Berkeley—but before formally assuming office—in order to assist with the planning for UCLA Law. During his visit, Prosser heard from Grant about how
15180-479: The seventh-best law school in the world. Berkeley Law's flagship journal, the California Law Review , is ranked third and fifth in the United States in studies conducted by researchers at Washington & Lee University and the University of Oregon , respectively. According to Brian Leiter 's 2012 scholarly impact study, Berkeley Law ranks seventh in terms of scholarly impact as measured by
15312-549: The site. It had opened in 1990 and could print 70,000 96-page newspapers an hour. The last issue of the Times printed at Olympic Boulevard was the March 11, 2024, edition. Printing moved to Riverside , at the Southern California News Group 's Press-Enterprise printer, which also prints Southern California editions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal . In preparation for
15444-491: The street to the south). 2251 College Avenue still stands today next to the law building and is now the home of the Archaeological Research Facility. However, in 2010, Berkeley Law archivist William Benemann cast doubt on the part of the foregoing story about how the law building had to be rotated counterclockwise at the last minute by explaining that it finds no support in the personal papers of
15576-410: The university at the time, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote, "Boalt made profoundly offensive and racist statements about Chinese and Chinese Americans, suggesting that it would be better to 'exterminate' those of Chinese descent than to have them assimilate." The university also found that Boalt had no other historical legacy than his racism, and that naming the building after him had not been
15708-585: Was 82.42%. The Ultimate Bar Pass Rate, which the ABA defines as the passage rate for graduates who sat for bar examinations within two years of graduating, was 97.87% for the class of 2021. According to the USC Gould School of Law's official 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 79.3% of the Class of 2014 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation. USC Gould's Law School Transparency under-employment score
15840-501: Was a result of declining advertising revenue and a debt load of $ 12.9 billion, much of it incurred when the paper was taken private by Zell. On February 7, 2018, Tribune Publishing , formerly Tronc Inc., agreed to sell the Los Angeles Times and its two other Southern California newspapers, The San Diego Union-Tribune and Hoy , to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong . The sale to Soon-Shiong through his Nant Capital investment fund, for $ 500 million plus
15972-437: Was actively studying law, either in an attorney's office , or by correspondence , or on their own. Law student associations were tiny, informal, fluid, and unstable, since individual students' level of interest in helping to run the associations tended to evaporate once they became members of the California bar and needed to focus on the actual practice of law . The common objective of students participating in such associations
16104-609: Was believed UC could have only one "law department." On January 17, 1911, the department began holding classes in the newly constructed Boalt Memorial Hall of Law at the center of the main UC Berkeley campus (now Durant Hall ), and it was formally dedicated on April 28, 1911. This building was completed in 1911 with funds partially obtained from a donation of San Francisco land made by Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt in memory of her late husband, John Henry Boalt , an attorney who had resided in Oakland, California until his death in 1901. As
16236-437: Was founded in 1892 and operated until 1894. In the absence of a formal law school, young men interested in careers in law (female lawyers were extremely rare at the time) formed several law student associations over the years which organized lectures by local attorneys as well as quiz sessions in which the students orally quizzed each other or were quizzed by an attorney. At the time, the term "law student" simply meant anyone who
16368-716: Was founded in 2018, the Berkeley Judicial Institute, and the California Constitution Center , which is the only non-profit organization dedicated to the study of the Constitution of California . In addition to housing chapters of the American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society , the Law School enables interested students to spend a semester studying constitutional and regulatory law at
16500-625: Was held at 7:30 p.m. on September 13, 1897. As head of the new law school, Scott preferred the new interactive style of teaching law pioneered by Christopher Columbus Langdell at Harvard Law School : the casebook method combined with the Socratic method . In 1899, Scott became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law . The Los Angeles Law School became affiliated with USC in 1900, and on June 6, 1901, its first class of seven graduates received their Bachelor of Laws degrees at USC's commencement exercises. Without Scott around to enforce
16632-546: Was hired as the Opinion and Editorial ( op-ed ) Editor in April 2004 to help improve the quality of the opinion pieces. His role was controversial, for he forced writers to take a more decisive stance on issues. In 2005, he created a Wikitorial , the first Wiki by a major news organization. Although it failed, readers could combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces. It was shut down after being besieged with inappropriate material. He resigned later that year. In 2003,
16764-434: Was not until 1961 that a satisfactory compromise was reached by which the School of Law faculty were restored to full Senate membership. While UCLA Law was indirectly wreaking all this havoc on its northern sibling, the new law building at Berkeley was under construction. The law school moved into its new building in fall 1951. The formal dedication ceremony was delayed to March 18, 1952, in order to take place as part of
16896-463: Was now a "complete law school" at Berkeley, whose graduates would be eligible to immediately apply for admission to the California bar without having to take additional courses at Hastings. The department awarded its first law degrees in 1903 to three men, one of whom was journalist and labor activist Motoyuki Negoro . In 1906, Emmy Marcuse was the first woman to earn a law degree from the department. These fortuitous developments at Berkeley were also
17028-548: Was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago , Illinois, placing the paper in co-ownership with the then WB-affiliated (now CW -affiliated) KTLA , which Tribune acquired in 1985. On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced its acceptance of real estate entrepreneur Sam Zell 's offer to buy the Chicago Tribune , the Los Angeles Times , and all other company assets. Zell announced that he would sell
17160-472: Was still far too many people for Boalt Hall. Other California law schools started to expand rapidly during and after World War II, but the School of Jurisprudence desperately needed to replace its building first. In 1946, planning began for a new law school building in the southeastern corner of the Berkeley campus at Bancroft Way and College Avenue. This project had to compete for funding against many other campus projects which had been severely delayed by
17292-461: Was to develop an understanding of California law strong enough to survive the bar examination of that era: oral cross-examination on various legal subjects by the members of the Supreme Court of California . USC Gould School of Law was born out of one of these associations. On the evening of November 17, 1896, 36 law students gathered in the courtroom of Judge David C. Morrison to form
17424-749: Was transferred to an entirely new law school building in 1951 but was removed in 2020. In 2019, 98 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment within nine months, with a median salary of $ 190,000. Of all the law schools in California, Berkeley had the highest bar passage rates in 2021 (95.5%) and 2022 (92.2%). The school offers J.D. , LL.M. , J.S.D. and Ph.D. degrees, and enrolls approximately 320 to 330 J.D. students in each entering class, annually, with each class being further broken down into smaller groups that take courses together. Berkeley Law alumni include notable federal judges, politicians, Fortune 500 executives, noted legal academics and civil rights experts. Prominent alumni include Chief Justice of
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