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Definition: Law School |
Law SchoolNoun1. A graduate school offering study leading to a law degree. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Law SchoolSynonym: school of law (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the United States, the institution where future lawyers obtain a legal degree is called a law school. In most cases, law schools grant the J.D, though some schools still award the LL.B degree which is still common in other common law jurisdictions, mostly commonwealth countries. A law school is usually an autonomous entity within a larger university and considered to be a graduate school program. In other jurisdictions these programs are more completely integrated into the other university faculties, such as in Canada where they are often called a faculty of law. Even though the first degree is considered at doctoral degree the other degrees that are awarded included the Master of Laws degree (L.L.M.) and the Doctor of Laws degree (J.S.D.).
See also: List of law schools, school of law
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Law school."
Crosswords: Law School |
| English words defined with "law school": law, law degree, law student ♦ monistic ♦ obedience ♦ practice of law ♦ respect ♦ school board, school of law, Scopes trial ♦ To keep good. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "law school": Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987 ♦ DEPUTY SHERIFF, CHIEF, DIRECTOR OF PUPIL PERSONNEL PROGRAM ♦ Flutter the Dovecotes ♦ National School Lunch Act ♦ POLICE LIEUTENANT, COMMUNITY RELATIONS, POLICE OFFICER, SAFETY INSTRUCTION ♦ WILDLIFE AGENT, REGIONAL. (references) |
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Screenplays | You actually made me think about the law. I managed to go through three years of law school without doing that. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) You were sick the day they taught law at law school. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school! (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) If you ever want me to be with another woman for you, I'd do it. It's not something I'm interested in. Once, yeah, it seemed normal, but it was just a phase, a college thing, like torn Levi's or law school for you. Would you like something from the kitchen? (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Ma, I love the Virgin too, but she didn't go to law school. (American Family; writing credit: Fririk r Fririksson; Einar Kárason) | |
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![]() | First law school in America, Litchfield, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The law school, Guadalajara.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Law School building, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Hendrie Hall, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Law School, Harvard College.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The Law School, Harvard University.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Entrance to Law School, Harvard University.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Negro instructors in the U.S. Coast Guard include Benjamin Jones of Chicago, a postal clerk in private life. Jones holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Chicago Law School. He is on headquarters staff at Man.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Thorstein Veblen | In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. |
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Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In Sweatt v. Painter, supra, in finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part on "those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school." (reference) |
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Economic History | Barbados | Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Legal Education Certificate. (references) |
Barbados | Graduated Hugh Wooding Law School (Trinidad), 1985, Legal Education Certificate. (references) | |
Cayman Islands | In addition, there is a technical school, a law school, and a community college. (references) | |
Human Rights | Liberia | By statute members of the bar must be graduates of a law school and pass the bar examination. (references) |
Senegal | In a 1998 effort to improve the administration of justice, the Government recruited 48 law school graduates to be trained as magistrates over a 2-year period. (references) | |
Macau | The judiciary is relatively inexperienced (the first law school opened in the early 1990's), and the lack of locally trained lawyers is a serious impediment to preservation of an independent judiciary and the overall development of the legal system. (references) | |
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Gerald Ford | I would, in retrospect, liked to have played one year just to prove that I could. But the opportunity to go to Yale and be an assistant coach and go to law school at the same time might not have been available. |
Jay McGraw | You know I do, I think that law school is kind of the responsible choice. You know once you're a lawyer, you're always a lawyer, and so I thought now would be a good time, and it is useful stuff. I mean the things I've learned there I use even this week. |
Linda Fairstein | Long before I went to law school, and I started by doing a nonfiction book about the reforms and the work we had done, but this was a dream I'd had. And so, I started doing the fiction. This is the fifth book in the series. |
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Expressions using "law school": law school graduate ♦ law school student. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
law school | 2,906 |
law school ranking | 909 |
harvard law school | 353 |
concord law school | 312 |
online law school | 299 |
top law school | 238 |
law school admission | 204 |
new york law school | 202 |
john marshall law school | 202 |
loyola law school | 149 |
yale law school | 146 |
brooklyn law school | 144 |
whittier law school | 105 |
cornell law school | 100 |
columbia law school | 98 |
law school scholarship | 96 |
fordham law school | 94 |
seton hall law school | 93 |
university of michigan law school | 90 |
university of miami law school | 85 |
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| Language | Translations for "law school"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كلية الحقوق (faculty of law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faculté de droit (faculty of law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | juristische fakultät. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 法学部 (law department). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうがくぶ (law department). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awlay oolschay professor de direito. (various references) юридическая школа, юридический факультет. (various references) facultad de derecho. (various references) hukuk fakültesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-l-l-o-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: alcohols. | |
-2 letters: alcohol, chollas, halloos, hallows, holloas, hollows, salchow, shallow. | |
-3 letters: allows, cahows, callow, cashoo, cholla, cholos, halloo, hallos, hallow, hollas, holloa, hollos, hollow, locals, sallow, school, wahoos. | |
-4 letters: achoo, allow, awols, cahow, calls, calos, chaos, chaws, cholo, chows, clash, claws, coals, cohos, colas, cools, cowls, hallo, halls, halos, holla, hollo, howls, loach, local, lochs, locos, ollas, salol, scall, schwa, scowl, shall, shawl, shoal, shool, wahoo, walls, whoso, wools, woosh. | |
-5 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awol, call, calo, cash, caws, chao, chaw, chow, claw, coal, coho, cola, cols, cool, coos, cosh, cowl, cows, hall, halo, haws, hols, howl, hows, lacs, lash, laws, loca, loch, loco, loos, lows, ocas, olla, oohs, owls, sall, scow, shaw, shoo, show, slaw, slow, sola, solo, wall, wash, whoa, wool, woos. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 77      53 63 68 6F 6F 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110111 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a w   S c h o o l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0077      0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667892536974818178 |
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