The School has approximately 640 J.D. students and 75 students in the LL.M. and S.J.D. programs. Admissions at Duke Law is highly selective, with fewer than 21% of applicants accepted. In 2005, the incoming class posted a median LSAT score of 168 and a median GPA of 3.72. On average, 95% of students are employed at graduation, with a median salary of $125,000. Over 400 law firms annually offer positions to Duke Law students.
After intermittent periods of law instruction at Trinity College in Durham, the School of Law was established in 1904. When Trinity College became part of the newly-created Duke University with the establishment of the Duke Endowment in 1924, the School of Law became an integral component.
Facilities
Duke University School of Law
The Law School is located at the corner of Science Drive and Towerview Road and was constructed in the mid-1960's.
The first addition to the Law School was completed in 1994, and a polished granite facade was added to the rear exterior of the building.
In 2004, Duke Law School broke ground on a building construction project that, once complete, will offer larger and more technologically advanced classrooms, expanded community areas and eating facilities, and more study options.
Law journals at Duke
Duke Law School is the home of eight academic journals. They include the Duke Law Journal, Law & Contemporary Problems, the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, the Duke Law & Technology Review, the Alaska Law Review, and the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy.
The School provides free online access to all of its academic journals, including the complete text of each journal issue dating back to January 1996 in a fully searchable HTML format and in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). New issues are posted on the web simultaneously with print publication.
In 2005, Duke Law was featured in the June 6th unveiling of the Open Access Law Program, an initiative of Creative Commons, for its work in pioneering open access to legal scholarship.
