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The '''University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law''' is a public ] located on the main campus of the ] in ], ]. It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in ], and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus in 1974. The school is accredited by the ] and is a member of the ]. The '''University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law''' is a public ] located on the main campus of the ] in ], ]. It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in ], and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus in 1974. The school is accredited by the ] and is a member of the ].


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==Degree programs offered== ==Degree programs offered==

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University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Established1895
School typePublic
DeanEllen Suni
LocationKansas City, Missouri, USA
Enrollment448 Full-time
27 Part-time
Faculty43
Bar pass rate98.31% (1st-time MO Bar)
94% (1st-time KS Bar)
Websitehttp://www.law.umkc.edu/
ABA profile

The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law is a public law school located on the main campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in Downtown Kansas City, and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus in 1974. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.

The school produces more future judges than the three other law schools in Missouri (St. Louis University School of Law, University of Missouri Columbia School of Law, Washington University School of Law), according to local business publication Ingram's Magazine. In addition, graduates of the law school now have one of the highest passage rates on the Missouri bar exam. The school sometimes claims that it is one of only seven American law schools to have produced both a President of the United States (Harry S. Truman) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Charles Evans Whittaker). Truman attended but did not graduate from the law school and never practiced law. The other schools that have had President-Supreme Court graduates who practiced law are Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the William & Mary Law School and the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Degree programs offered

Clinics

Five clinical programs permit students, acting under faculty supervision, to develop legal skills and learn professional values in actual practice settings:

  • Child & Family Services Clinic
  • Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic
  • Guardian ad Litem Workshop
  • Kansas City Tax Clinic
  • Midwestern Innocence Project

Publications

  • The UMKC Law Review
  • The Urban Lawyer
  • Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Notable alumni

Politics

Judiciary

Business and practice

Notable faculty and former faculty

External links

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