The Pepperdine University School of Law is an ABA accredited law school, nestled in the hills of Malibu, California overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The campus is 30 miles from Downtown Los Angeles; the school also has a West LA campus, with flexible course schedules to mid-career professionals in conjunction with the Malibu campus offerings.
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Overview
Pepperdine offers six joint degrees, and several LLM and master's degrees, including those offered in conjunction with the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Law's #1 ranked Institute. . Pepperdine Law also offer certificates in Dispute Resolution, and in Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law.
The school's other institutes include: the Parris Institute for Professional Formation, the Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute, the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics], and the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law
Pepperdine pairs students with a practicing attorney or judge their 1L year. It also provides clinics and externships, and global programs in London, Uganda, and India,
Pepperdine Law placed 65th among the nation's "Top 100" law schools according to the 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings. The school had an 78% California bar passage rate in July 2014, the seventh highest California passage rate .
The school offers a Juris Doctor (J.D.), Masters of Law (LL.M.) in dispute resolution, and several joint degrees J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.Div., J.D./Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.), and J.D./ Master of Dispute Resolution (M.D.R.). The school is particularly known for its entertainment law, and its dispute resolution program, which is ranked #1 in the nation.
Deanell Reece Tacha, former Chief Judge of The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, became Dean on June 1, 2011, and retired on December 31, 2016. Pepperdine professor of tax law Paul Caron became dean on June 1, 2017.
Costs
The total cost of attendance, indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses, at Pepperdine for the 2015-2016 academic year was $79,800. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years, as of 2014, was $301,845.
Accreditation and post-graduation employment
Pepperdine University School of Law is approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1972, holds membership in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), and is accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners, State Bar of California.
Pepperdine University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Employment Outcomes: According to 2013 ABA data, 53.1% of graduates obtained full-time, long term positions requiring bar admission (i.e., jobs as lawyers), 9 months after graduation, ranking 124th out of 200 law schools.
Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion and Ethics
The purpose of the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics includes three initiatives:
- Scholarship with respect to issues at the intersection of law and religion;
- Domestic Justice Initiatives, such as the Legal Aid Clinic and the Asylum and Refugee Clinic; and
- the Global Justice Program.
Global Justice Program
The Global Justice Program has initiatives in
- international human rights and religious freedom,
- advancement of the rule of law,
- global development.
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution provides professional training and academic programs in dispute resolution including a Certificate, Masters in Dispute Resolution (MDR) and Masters of Law in Dispute Resolution (LLM). Straus provides education to law and graduate students, as well as mid-career professionals in areas of mediation, negotiation, arbitration, international dispute resolution and peacemaking. The institute has consistently ranked as the number one Dispute Resolution school in the nation for the past 8 years,
Journals
- Pepperdine Law Review
- Dispute Resolution Law Journal
- Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary (NAALJ)
- Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Law (JBEL)
Each year the Pepperdine Law Review hosts one or two symposia that bring well-known speakers to campus. Written contributions to each symposium are published in the Law Review.
Joint degree programs
Joint degree programs include the JD/MPP degree in conjunction with the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, the JD/Masters of Dispute Resolution degree in conjunction with the School of Law's number one ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and the JD/MBA degree in conjunction with the Graziadio School of Business and Management.
Notable people
Faculty
- Roger Cossack
- Colleen Graffy
- Douglas Kmiec
- Edward Larson -- Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Grant S. Nelson -- specialist in real estate law
- Mark S. Scarberry
- Kenneth Starr -- former Dean, former appellate federal judge, and former United States Solicitor General
- Deanell Reece Tacha -- Dean and retired Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Ben Stein - former faculty (1990 - 1997), writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator
Visiting faculty
- Samuel Alito -- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Akhil Reed Amar
- Gary Haugen -- CEO of the International Justice Mission
- Antonin Scalia -- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Lawrence Eric Taylor
Guest speakers
- John Robert Bolton -- Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- Paul Clement -- Former United States Solicitor General and current Georgetown Law Professor
- Tharcisse Karugarama -- Rwandan politician. He is the current Minister of Justice and Attorney-General in the Rwandan government.
- Anthony M. Kennedy -- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Mark Lane
- Beverley McLachlin -- Chief Justice of Canada and Deputy of the Governor General of Canada
- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Retired)
- Benjamin Joseph Odoki -- Chief Justice of the Uganda Supreme Court
- Condoleezza Rice -- 66th United States Secretary of State
- John Roberts -- Chief Justice of the United States
- Mary M. Schroeder -- Senior Judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Myron T. Steele -- Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
- Robert K. Tanenbaum -- Former Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
- Ruth Wedgwood
- Muhammad Yunus -- Economist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, and founder of the Grameen Bank
Notable alumni
- André Birotte Jr., 1991 -- United States District Court Judge in the Central District of California
- Jennifer A. Dorsey, 1997 -- United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- Jeffrey S. Boyd, 1991 -- Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, 2012 -
- Rick J. Caruso, 1983 -- Chief Executive Officer of Caruso Affiliated
- Mark J. Caruso, 1982 - State Representative New Mexico Legislature, 1991-1995
- Rich Cho, 1997 -- General Manager of the Charlotte Hornets
- Talis J. Colberg, 1983 -- Attorney General of Alaska, 2006-2009
- Chris DeRose (author), 2004 -- New York Times Bestselling Author, law professor, and political strategist
- James Hahn, 1975 -- Mayor of Los Angeles, 2001-2005
- Brent A. Jones (born 1963), Republican member of the Nevada Assembly.
- Mike Leach, 1986 -- College football coach at several schools, currently head coach at Washington State University
- Eileen C. Moore, 1978 -- Justice of the California Court of Appeal
- Montgomery "Monty" Moran -- Co-CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Beverly Reid O'Connell, 1990 -- United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
- Doug Peterson, 1985 -- Attorney General of Nebraska, 2015-present
- Todd Russell Platts, 1991 -- U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, 2001-
- Pierre-Richard Prosper, 1989 -- United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, 2001-2005
- Brian K. Tester, 1990 - United States Bankruptcy Judge, District of Puerto Rico
- Ehsan Zaffar, 2007 - Senior government advisor, law professor and author
Honor societies
The School of Law attained membership in the Order of the Coif in 2008.
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