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New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, was founded in 1891 by the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia College Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of legal education. In 1904, the Law School established one of the nation's first evening divisions to provide those in the workforce, or with family obligations, a flexible alternative to full-time legal studies.
From its inception, New York Law School's lower Manhattan location, in the midst of the country's largest concentration of government agencies, courts, law firms, banks, corporate headquarters, and securities exchanges, has made immersion in the legal life of a great city an essential part of the School's identity and curriculum.
The Law School offers the course of study leading to the J.D. degree through full-time day and part-time evening divisions. It offers a joint degree program, the J.D./M.B.A., with Baruch College, City University of New York, and joint Bachelor's /J.D. programs with Stevens Institute of Technology, Adelphi University, New England College, and Southern Vermont College. In the fall semester 2003, the Law School began offering the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, becoming one of only two law schools in the New York City area to offer this advanced training to tax attorneys. In 2009, the School also began offering an LL.M. in Real Estate and an LL.M. in Financial Services Law, as well as a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Mental Disability Law Studies.
New York Law School's continued vitality springs from the Faculty's active commitment first to legal education and scholarship, but also to the profession; from the talent and energy of its students and alumni; and from a curriculum that infuses theoretical analysis with the strategic and ethical questions that make the practice of law an unending challenge.
A full-time faculty of approximately 82 men and women is joined by a first-rate adjunct faculty, consisting of attorneys, judges, and other public officials who offer many elective courses each year in the various fields of their expertise. Approximately 1,500 students, most of them entering right after college, study at the Law School. In the Evening Division, many of the students have established careers in other fields. New York Law School students are 51 percent women, and 32 percent self-identified minority (in the entering class of 2008). The students' rich diversity of life experiences makes it possible to find easily among them those who are the first to pursue a graduate education as well those who are the second or third generation in their families to do so.
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