University of California, Irvine School of Law

University of California, Irvine School of Law
UCI School of Law building
Parent schoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Established2007; 19 years ago (2007)
School typePublic
Parent endowment$1.3 billion
DeanAusten Parrish[1]
LocationIrvine, California, United States
Enrollment467[2]
Faculty145[2]
USNWR ranking38th (tie) (2025)[3]
Bar pass rate88% (July 2022 1st time takers)[4]
Websitelaw.uci.edu
ABA profileStandard 509 Report

The University of California, Irvine School of Law (also known as UC Irvine Law) is the law school at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 2007, it is the fifth and newest law school in the University of California system. Its foundation ended an over 40-year hiatus in the creation of public law schools in California.[5]

Erwin Chemerinsky served as the dean of UC Irvine Law from September 2007 to 2017, until being hired as dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. L. Song Richardson became the interim dean in July 2017 and the dean in January 2018.[6][7] Song Richardson served as the dean until 2021, leaving to become president of Colorado College. Bryant Garth became interim dean in July 2021.[8] Austen Parrish was named as the school's third dean in April 2022.[9]

History

The school was first eligible for and granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association in 2011 and was granted full accreditation in June 2014.[10]

Admissions

Classes officially began on August 24, 2009. Approximately four percent of applicants were accepted to join the inaugural class of 60 students.[11] The school's inaugural class was composed of 34 women and 26 men, with a median LSAT of 167 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.61.[12]

Tuition

For the first, second and third entering classes, tuition was paid for by private scholarships from Mark P. Robinson Jr.[13] and others, at 100%, 50% and 33%, respectively.[14]

The tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year was approximately $40,000 for California residents and $52,000 for non-residents[15] and the total cost of tuition (not including the cost of living) at the University of California-Irvine School of Law for the 2025–2026 academic year was $61,208 for California residents and $73,453 for non-residents.[16] The estimated cost of living on campus is $25,786 per year.[17]

Scholarships

The school raised funds for full scholarships for all members of its inaugural class.[18]

Despite offering reduced scholarships to its next two classes (one-half for 2013 and one-third for 2014) and applicant pools dropping to less than 1000 per year, GPA and LSAT numbers for these classes remained largely the same.[2]

The school announced that universal scholarships would not be offered for the Class of 2015, while need-based financial aid would still be available. The school funded 20 full scholarships, including ones specifically for students wishing to pursue public interest law.[19]

During the 2019–2020 academic year, 39.1% of students received a scholarship covering more than 50% of the tuition cost, 55.1% of students received a scholarship covering less than 50% of the tuition cost, and 2.1% of students received no scholarship.[17]

Rankings

UCI Law School was ranked #30 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in March 2015.[20] By then, the applicant median LSAT score was 164, and the median undergraduate GPA was 3.53.[21] The publication ranked UC Irvine 11th for its clinical program, 23rd for its intellectual property law program, and in the top ten for the student diversity index.[22].For 2025, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UCI Law School 38th nationally. The entering class had a median LSAT score of 167 and a median GPA of 3.81.[23]

Federal clerkships

In December 2011, the percentage of the Class of 2012 students who had received Federal District Court or Circuit Court judge clerkships for the year following graduation was second to the highest-ranking Yale and ahead of Harvard Law.[24]

In May 2015, the ABA law school employment data ranked UCI third in the placement of federal clerkships, behind only Yale and Stanford.[25] In 2023, there were 15 federal clerkships.[26] Between 2020 and 2024, UCI reported on average 12 federal clerkships per year.[27]

Employment

According to UC Irvine's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 93% of the Class of 2024 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[28] UC Irvine's Law School Transparency under-employment score was 6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2024 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[28] As of January 2025, 97% of the 2023 graduating class was employed, with a 97% bar passage rate.[29]

References

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  4. ^ Rubino, Kathryn (2019-12-16). "California Bar Exam Results: A Breakdown By Law School (July 2019)". Above the Law. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  5. ^ "Our History". www.law.uci.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  6. ^ Haire, Chris (2017-05-17). "UC Irvine law dean Erwin Chemerinsky named dean of Berkeley's law school, will begin July 1". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  7. ^ Vega, Priscella (2017-12-27). "New UC Irvine dean will be only woman of color to lead a top law school, university says". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  8. ^ "A message from Bryant Garth, Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus". University of California, Irvine School of Law. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  9. ^ "Austen Parrish is named third dean of UCI's School of Law". UCI News. 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
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  19. ^ "Yale, Harvard, Stanford ... UC Irvine?". Retrieved 2011-12-13.
  20. ^ "Best Law Schools". U.S. News & World Report. 2015-03-10. Archived from the original on 2015-02-27.
  21. ^ "Class Profile". University of California, Irvine School of Law. 2014-11-18. Archived from the original on 2015-02-20.
  22. ^ "UC Irvine debuts at No. 30 on U.S. News & World Report law school ranking". www.ocregister.com. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  23. ^ "University of California Irvine, U.S. News & World Report, Best Graduate Schools". 2026.
  24. ^ "LSAC Law School Data". Retrieved 2011-12-13.
  25. ^ "Visualizing law school federal judicial clerkship placement, 2012-2014". Excess of Democracy. May 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  26. ^ "Judicial Clerkships | UCI Law". www.law.uci.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  27. ^ "Judicial Clerkships". Retrieved 2025-12-24.
  28. ^ a b "Employment Summary for 2024 Graduates | UCI Law". www.law.uci.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
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