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The Appalachian School of Law (ASL) is a private law school in Grundy, Virginia. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree to approximately 128 full-time students. [2] The school was founded in 1994 and admitted its first class of students in August 1997.
On January 16, 2002, a school shooting occurred at the Appalachian School of Law, an American Bar Association accredited private law school in Grundy, Virginia, United States. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded when a former student, 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, opened fire in the school with a handgun.
As of 2025, 19 law schools are approved by the State Bar of California. [4] Other states that approve non-ABA accredited law schools include Alabama, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. Also, the CBE allows registered unaccredited schools to operate and students of those schools are eligible to take the California Bar Examination upon graduation.
Many, or perhaps most, law schools in the United States grade on a norm-referenced grading curve.The process generally works within each class, where the instructor grades each exam, and then ranks the exams against each other, adding to and subtracting from the initial grades so that the overall grade distribution matches the school's specified curve (usually a bell curve).
The school has held American Bar Association accreditation since 1969 and is a member of the Order of the Coif. The school is also a member of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2006, the law school was renamed in honor of Phoenix resident, Stanford graduate, and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
This is a list of law schools in Alabama, arranged in alphabetical order. [1] Law School City ABA Accredited [2] Birmingham School of Law: Birmingham: No
In 1878, Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first chief justice of California, gave $100,000 to be used to create the law school that once bore his name.He arranged for the enactment of a legislative act on March 26, 1878, to create the Hastings College of the Law as a separate legal entity affiliated with the University of California.
The School of Law is located in the Green Hall facility on Liberty's campus, and consists of 116,000 square feet (10,800 m 2), all of which is located on one level. 34,000 square feet (3,200 m 2) of that space is dedicated to Ehrhorn Law Library. [7]