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University of Illinois College of Law

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The University of Illinois College of Law (also known as Illinois Law or UIUC Law) is a law school located in Champaign, Illinois, and one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

The College of Law was established in 1897, and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law. The College of Law also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers. The school offers 10 scholarly areas of research, teaching, and coursework, called specialty programs. These are not majors or concentrations in the traditional sense but areas of academic interest and strength within the College of Law. The specialty programs include Business Law and Policy; Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy; Constitutional Theory, History and Law; Criminal Law and Procedure; Health Law and Policy; Intellectual Property and Technology Law; International and Comparative Law; Law, Behavior and Social Sciences; Law and Philosophy; and Legal History.

The College of Law is currently ranked tied for 29th in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. In 2010 and 2011, the College of Law placed 21st and 23rd, respectively, in the rankings before reports surfaced that a school administrator had submitted falsified admissions data. After this incident, the College of Law placed for several years between 35th and 47th in the rankings. Illinois ranked 25th in the 2019 Above The Law rankings of U.S. law schools[4] and 26th in The National Law Journal's 2015 "Go-To Law Schools" Ranking

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