UC Davis School of Law
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The University of California Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall), referred to as UC Davis School of Law and commonly known as King Hall and UC Davis Law, is an American Bar Association approved law school
Law school in the United States
In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.Law schools in the U.S...

 located in Davis, California
Davis, California
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 on the campus of the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

. The school received ABA approval in 1968. It joined the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
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 (AALS) in 1968.

By design, UC Davis School of Law is the smallest of the five law schools in the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

 system, with a total enrollment of just under 600 students. Located in a building named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...

, and commonly referred to as King Hall, the School is committed to preserving Dr. King's ideal of social and political justice.

The School’s traditional and emerging areas of study include business law, criminal law and procedure, environmental and natural resources law, health care law and bioethics, human rights and social justice law, intellectual property law, immigration law, international and comparative law, constitutional law, and public interest law. Certificate programs are offered in Public Service Law, Environment and Natural Resources Law, and Pro Bono Service.

Among the UC Davis School of Law's assets are award-winning trial and appellate advocacy programs, clinics, and externships, five student-run journals, and more than 40 active student organizations.

Rankings and academics

UC Davis is one of the top 5 law schools in California, and one of the top 25 law schools in the United States. US News & World Report ranks UC Davis 23rd among top law schools in the U.S., and as the second most diverse
Diversity (politics)
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 of the four law schools in the UC system (after UC Hastings). Princeton Review placed UC Davis tenth in the nation in the 2009 version of its annual ranking of faculty diversity among American law schools. It is listed as an "A-" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.

It is listed as an "A" (#16) in the January 2011 "Best Public Interest Law Schools" ratings by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.

UC Davis Law has the smallest student body of the UC schools, but a slightly larger student/faculty ratio than UCLA
UCLA School of Law
The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1950. It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1952.- History :...

 or Berkeley.

In addition, it is one of the least expensive law schools in the UC system, and it grants the most in financial aid after UCLA, so students tend to graduate with less debt on average than other schools in the UC system. UC Davis Law's King Hall Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), founded in 1990 to help alumni working in relatively low-income public-service law careers to repay student loans, was the first loan repayment assistance program established at any UC law school.

According to Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is currently John Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and founder and Director of Chicago's new Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values and the editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. He taught from...

's Law School rankings, Davis ranks 23rd in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citation
Citation
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s of tenure-stream faculty.

In February 2008, the The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students ranked the UC Davis Law Review number 30 on its list of the 100 best law reviews.

The school is a member of the Order of the Coif
Order of the Coif
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, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.

Bar passage rates

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 79.4% of UC Davis Law graduates passed the California State Bar. In 2009, 89% of first-time test takers passed the California bar.

Post-graduation employment

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 93% of UC Davis Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.

Expansion

The law school is currently undergoing $30 million expansion project that is beginning its second phase. The project thus far has added an additional wing to the law school's current building, increasing assignable space by nearly 30 percent to provide for additional classrooms, offices, and a new courtroom, named the Paul and Lydia Kalmanovitz
Paul Kalmanovitz
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 Appellate Courtroom in honor of a $1 million gift to the project from the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation. The courtroom is used by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and California Court of Appeal. The second phase, now underway, includes major renovations to the existing structure that will improve aesthetics and traffic flow as well as provide the infrastructure necessary for new technologies. Construction information, floor plans, and a live construction camera are all available on the school's website.

Centers at King Hall


Journals at King Hall


Student Organizations and Programs at King Hall


Faculty

  • Vikram Amar
    Vikram Amar
    Vikram David Amar is professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry Blackmun at the Supreme Court of the...

    , Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, constitutional law scholar.
  • Alan Brownstein
    Alan Brownstein
    Alan E. Brownstein is Professor of Law and the Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality at the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...

    , Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality.
  • Gabriel "Jack" Chin
    Gabriel J. Chin
    Gabriel Jack Chin is an author, legal scholar, and Professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Chin is the Chester H. Smith Professor of Law and co-director of the Program in Criminal Law and Policy at the James E. Rogers College of Law, and Professor at the School of...

    , Professor of Law, specialist in fields of immigration law and criminal procedure.
  • Joel Dobris
    Joel Dobris
    Joel C. Dobris is a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law . Dobris is one of the most cited legal academic in the country in the area of the law of Wills, Trusts, and Estates. His book, Estates and Trusts, is a widely used textbook at American law schools.He received a B.A. in English...

    , Professor of Law, leading scholar in the law of Trusts, Wills
    Wills
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    , and Estates
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    An estate is the net worth of a person at any point in time. It is the sum of a person's assets - legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind - less all liabilities at that time. The issue is of special legal significance on a question of bankruptcy and death of the person...

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  • Floyd F. Feeney, Homer G. and Ann Berryhill Professor of Law for International Legal and Communication Studies.
  • Angela P. Harris
    Angela P. Harris
    Angela P. Harris is a legal scholar in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law. She has taught these subjects at UC Berkeley School of Law since joining the faculty there in 1988. In 2009, Professor Harris joined the faculty of the State University of New...

    , Professor of Law, nationally recognized authority in critical legal theory.
  • Robert W. Hillman
    Robert W. Hillman
    Robert W. Hillman is a Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, where he holds the Fair Business Practices and Investor Advocacy Chair...

    , Professor of Law, Fair Business Practices and Investor Advocacy Chair.
  • Edward Imwinkelried
    Edward Imwinkelried
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    , Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law, specialist in evidence law.
  • Kevin Johnson
    Kevin Johnson (academic)
    Kevin R. Johnson is the Dean of the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he was a student at Harvard Law School where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, served as a clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and...

    , Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, specialist in civil rights, immigration, and Chicano/a rights law.
  • Miguel Méndez
    Miguel Méndez (legal scholar)
    Miguel A. Méndez is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law . Prior to joining the Davis faculty, Professor Méndez was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School, where he was on the law faculty from 1977 to 2009. Before starting his...

    , Professor of Law, nationally recognized evidence law scholar.
  • Rex R. Perschbacher
    Rex R. Perschbacher
    Rex R. Perschbacher is the Daniel J. Dykstra Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law, where he presided as Dean from 1998-2008. In addition to his impressive career as a legal scholar, he is credited with leading “an intellectual renaissance” at the Law School and with spearheading the King Hall...

    , Daniel J. Dykstra Endowed Chair, former Dean of the Law School, 1998-2008.
  • Cruz Reynoso
    Cruz Reynoso
    Cruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...

    , Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court 1982-1987, Professor Emeritus.
  • Martha West
    Martha West
    Martha S. West is general counsel for the American Association of University Professors and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis School of Law . West served as Associate Dean of the law school between 1988 and 1992...

    , former Associate Dean; Professor Emeritus.

Alumni

  • Luis Alejo
    Luis Alejo
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    , mayor of Watsonville, California
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  • M. Kathleen Butz, Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal
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    , 3rd Appellate District.
  • Charles Calderon, California State Assembly
    California State Assembly
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    member, former majority leader of the California State Senate.
  • Tani Cantil-Sakauye
    Tani Cantil-Sakauye
    Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , a Filipina-American jurist, is the 28th Chief Justice of California. Nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for California's highest judicial office on July 22, 2010, and retained in office by California voters on November 2, 2010, she was sworn in on January 3, 2011...

    , 28th Chief Justice of California.
  • F. Philip Carbullido, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Guam; Chief Justice 2003-2008.
  • Sharon L. Gleason
    Sharon L. Gleason
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    , presiding judge, Alaska's Third Judicial District; federal judicial nominee United States District Court for the District of Alaska
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  • Elihu Harris
    Elihu Harris
    Elihu Mason Harris is a former U.S. Democratic Party politician and college administrator. He served as the 46th mayor of Oakland, California from 1991 to until 1999. He served for 12 years as a member of the California State Assembly before his election as Oakland mayor...

    , former Democratic mayor of Oakland, California
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  • Gus Lee
    Gus Lee
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    , American author and ethicist.
  • Paul Igasaki
    Paul Igasaki
    Paul M. Igasaki is the Chair and Chief Judge of the Administrative Review Board at the U.S. Department of Labor. Previously he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Equal Justice Works, a national organization that advances public interest law through fellowships, loan repayment programs, pro...

    , Chief Judge & Chair of the U.S. Department of Labor
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     Administrative Review Board
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    ; Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Equal Justice Works
    Equal Justice Works
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    ; former Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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     (EEOC), appointed by President Clinton.
  • Laura Liswood
    Laura Liswood
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    , Co-Founder of the Council of Women World Leaders
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    ; Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs
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  • George Miller, Democratic Congressman; Ranking Member, United States House Committee on Education and Labor.
  • Angela E. Oh
    Angela E. Oh
    Angela E. Oh is an attorney, teacher, and public lecturer best known for her role as spokesperson for the Korean American community after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and her position on President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative.-Biography:...

    , activist, former Chair of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's Federal Judicial Nominations Committee.
  • Kristina Pickering
    Kristina Pickering
    Kristina Pickering is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada. She became just the fifth woman to serve on the Court when she was sworn in on January 5, 2009. She attended Yale University , Georgetown University, and the University of California, Davis School of Law.-References:...

    , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
    Supreme Court of Nevada
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  • Dean D. Pregerson
    Dean D. Pregerson
    Dean D. Pregerson is a United States federal judge.Born in Los Angeles, California, Pregerson received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972 and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 1976. He was a Parole hearing officer, Department of...

    , Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
    United States District Court for the Central District of California
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    ; son of Judge Harry Pregerson
    Harry Pregerson
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    .
  • Victoria Pynchon
    Victoria Pynchon
    Victoria "Vickie" Pynchon is an American lawyer, attorney mediator, author and writer based in Los Angeles.-Early years:Victoria Pynchon grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County, graduating from La Mesa Junior High School, where she was valedictorian, then graduating in 1970 from Helix High...

    , author and attorney, specializing in mediation.
  • Jane A. Restani
    Jane A. Restani
    Jane A. Restani is currently an associate judge of the United States Court of International Trade. She was appointed to the Court on November 16, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan...

    , Chief Judge, United States Court of International Trade
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  • Jim Rogers (politician), City councilman, City of Richmond, California
    Richmond, California
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  • Jon Sands
    Jon Sands
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    , Chief Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona.
  • Anna Slotky
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    , actress.
  • Gary D. Solis
    Gary D. Solis
    Gary D. Solis is an Adjunct Professor of Law who teaches the laws of war at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is an expert on the laws of war....

    , Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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  • Darrell Steinberg
    Darrell Steinberg
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    , California State Senate President Pro Tem, (D-Sacramento).
  • Craig F. Stowers
    Craig F. Stowers
    Craig F. Stowers is an Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who was appointed by Republican Governor Sean Parnell in 2009 to replace retiring Justice Robert Eastaugh...

    , Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
    Alaska Supreme Court
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  • Arthur Torres, vice chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
    California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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    ; former Chairman of the California Democratic Party
    California Democratic Party
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  • Monika Kalra Varma
    Monika Kalra Varma
    Monika Kalra Varma is the Director of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights . Varma is on the Editorial Board of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Health and Human Rights Journal at Harvard University She serves on the Advisory Board for the Global India Fund...

    , Director, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights (RFK Center)
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  • Steve White
    Steve White (judge)
    Steve White is the Presiding Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court. He was appointed to the bench in 2003 by Governor Gray Davis. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as the Solicitor General of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, overseeing California's prison...

    , Presiding Judge, Sacramento County Superior Court; former Inspector General of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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