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Florida State University College of Law 

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Florida State University College of Law is the law school of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

The law school borders the southeast quadrant of the University's campus, near the Donald L. Tucker Center, an arena and part of the Tallahassee civic center area and is immediately across the street from the Florida First District Court of Appeal courthouse) (as of Spring 2007, the Florida Legislature has given the court building to the law school for renovation for school use). It is recognizable by the distinctive and historic white wood trellis structures outside the law school's eastern buildings.

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Programs

The College of Law offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is the first professional law degree. The three-year program provides students a foundational first-year program, a legal writing program, and a varied offering of upper-level courses, seminars, clinics, and co-curricular activities. Externship programs exist, including in Washington, D.C., London, the Hague, and in every major city in Florida, allowing students to spend a semester outside of Tallahassee.

The College of Law offers an Master of Laws (LL.M.) program for foreign lawyers and two certificate programs, in Environmental, Natural Resources and Land Use Law, and International Law. Its faculty also offers a significant range of courses in Law, Economics, and Business.

The College of Law offers joint degree programs allowing students to earn other degrees in conjunction with the J.D., including Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, and Ph.D. degrees.

Rankings

The College of Law ranked 55th among law schools in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report law school ranking. U.S. News ranked the environmental law program as the tenth best (fourth among public university law schools and the highest-ranked in the Southeast).[1]

Leiter law school rankings listed administrative and environmental law at FSU in the "Also Strong" category in 2002. [1]

Faculty

The faculty scholarship of the FSU College of Law ranks among the top 25 law schools based on downloads, according to the Social Science Research Network, which hosts working papers by FSU College of Law Faculty in both Public Law and Legal Theory and Law, Business & Economics.

Nationally prominent law professors at FSU include Jim Rossi and Mark Seidenfeld (regulatory and administrative law), Steven Gey (constitutional law), Wayne Logan, Dan Markel, Gary Kleck (criminal law), Robin Kundis Craig, David L. Markell, J. B. Ruhl, John Scholz (environmental law), Frederick M. Abbott, Fernando Tesón, Lesley Wexler (international law), Curtis Bridgeman, Fernando Tesón (jurisprudence), Bruce L. Benson, Dino Falaschetti, Manuel Utset (law, business, and economics), and Joseph M. Dodge, Brian Galle, Gregg Polsky (tax law).

Three FSU College of Law faculty have published their own separate casebooks in environmental law -- David Markell, Robin Kundis Craig and J.B. Ruhl -- representing the one of the most significant impacts on the teaching of Environmental Law of any law school in the U.S. Other faculty authored books are widely used in law schools across the country for courses in Tax Law (Joseph M. Dodge, Gregg Polsky), International Intellectual Property Law (Frederick M. Abbott), Law and Economics (Mark Seidenfeld), Ocean and Coastal Law (Donna Christie), Energy Law (Jim Rossi) and Endangered Species Law (J.B. Ruhl). Beyond the classroom, FSU's College of Law faculty are regularly cited as authorities by courts, law reform bodies and other scholars. One faculty member, Sandy D'Alemberte, is a former President of both the American Bar Association and the National Judicature Society.

Affiliated faculty from other university departments holding Courtesy appointments at the law school include John Scholz, a leading political scientist addressing regulatory enforcement, Bruce L. Benson, an economist focused and law and economics, R. Mark Isaac, a leading experimental economist, and Gary Kleck, a criminologist known for his work on guns and deterrence.

Journals

The Florida State University Law Review is the main law review. It publishes four issues a year.

The Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law is the state's first and remains its only student publication in the field. It is ranks among the top environmental and land use law journals based on citations. Journal of Transnational Law and Policy publishes articles in the field of international law, including human rights, comparative law, and U.S. foreign policy.

Law students also publish the Florida State University Business Review, a biannual publication which examines the interrelated disciplines of business and law but is not an official cocurricular journal.

Job placement and alumni

With more than 99% of its graduates finding legal employment within 9 months of gradutation, FSU College of Law consistently ranks among the top law schools in the state of Florida for student job placement. It also consistently ranks as one of the top law schools in the state in bar passage. While 30-40% of its graduates serve in state and federal government, including in the judiciary, the bulk of its graduates enter into private practice.

Some of its distinguished graduates include:

Congresswoman Castor
Congresswoman Castor
Senator Martinez
Senator Martinez

Notes

  1. ^ FSU College of Law continues to rise in U.S. News rankings

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