Harvard Law School
| Harvard Law School | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Veritas, Lex et Iustitia (Latin for 'Truth, Law and Justice') |
| Parent school | Harvard University |
| Established | 1817 |
| School type | Private law school |
| Dean | John C. P. Goldberg (interim)[1] |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Enrollment | 1,990 (2019)[2] |
| Faculty | 135[3] |
| USNWR ranking | 6th (tie) (2025)[4] |
| Bar pass rate | 99.4% (2021)[5] |
| Website | hls |
| ABA profile | Standard 509 Report |
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.
Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ranked law schools in the United States.[6] The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.
HLS has the world's largest academic law library.[7][8] The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members.[3] According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam.[9][10][11] The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.[12]
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- ^ "Harvard Law School – 2015 Standard 509 Information Report" (PDF). Harvard Law School. Harvard University. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
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- ^ "Bar Passage Outcomes". American Bar Association. Archived from the original on June 10, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ^ "Brian Leiter Law School Supreme Court Clerkship Placement, 2000-2010". leiterrankings.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.. However, because of its greater size, approximately 2.5 times that of Yale, Harvard had a greater total number of Supreme Court while Yale has a significantly higher per-capita placement of clerks on the Court. Id.