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{{Infobox_University
|image = [[Image:kentlogo.jpg|center|Chicago-Kent College of Law]]
|name = Chicago-Kent College of Law
|established = [[1888]]
|type = [[Private university|Private]]
|dean = Harold J. Krent
|city = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Chicago]]
|state = [[Illinois]]
|country = [[United States|USA]]
|campus = [[Urban area|Urban]]
|Bar Pass Rate (2006) = [[90% (Illinois) vs. 87% (Statewide Average)]]
|website = http://www.kentlaw.edu/
}}
'''Chicago-Kent College of Law''' is an [[American Bar Association|ABA]] accredited law school in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. Chicago-Kent is part of the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]. It is the second oldest law school in Illinois. The School's name is a combination of two law schools which merged in 1900 to form present day Chicago-Kent: the Chicago College of Law and the Kent College of Law. The latter named for [[James Kent]], American jurist and legal scholar.
Chicago-Kent was the nation’s first law school to make the computer a vital part of the study of law. Many of the applications of technology in the law school classroom today were pioneered at Chicago-Kent.
The 2005 full-time entering class has a median LSAT of 161 and a median GPA of 3.57.<ref>http://www.kentlaw.edu/students/</ref>
[[Image:DSC00926.JPG|thumb|right|248px|[[Illinois Institute of Technology]]'s Downtown Campus, home of [[Chicago-Kent College of Law]], Stuart School of Business, and Graduate Program in Public Administration]]
==Rankings, Honors==
The 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools" ranked Chicago-Kent College of Law:
*60th in the country overall (tie)
*9th Intellectual Property Programs
*10th in the country in Legal Writing (tie)
Recent Leiter’s Law School Rankings placed the law school:
*37th Based on Faculty Quality, 2003-04 (tie)
*30th Top 50 Faculties: Per Capita Productivity of Books and Articles, 2000-02
Vault's 2007 Top 25 Most Underrated Law Schools ranked the law school:
*4th Most Underrated Law School in the U.S.
The Chicago-Kent Trial Advocacy Team won the 32nd annual National Trial Competition.
==Academics==
* '''Chicago-Kent''' teaches a standard first year law school curriculum with courses in Torts, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property and Civil Procedure.
* The school places a heavy emphasis on Legal Research and Writing. Kent's writing curriculum has been used as a model for other programs.<ref>http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/</ref>
* Students are well prepared to take the Illinois bar exam, with an 88.5% first time pass rate].<ref>http://www.kentlaw.edu/students/</ref>
==Degree Programs==
*'''[[Juris Doctor]] ([[J.D.]]) Program'''
**[[J.D.]] Certificates and Concentrations:
***Environment and Energy Law
***[[Intellectual Property Law]]
***International and [[Comparative Law]]
***Labor and Employment Law
***[[Litigation]] and [[Alternative Dispute Resolution]]
***Public Interest Law
*'''Graduate [[L.L.M.]] Programs'''
**Family
**Financial Service Law
**International and Comparative Law
**International Intellectual Property Law
**Taxation
*'''Joint Degree Programs'''
**J.D./L.L.M in Taxation
**J.D./L.L.M in Financial Service Law
**J.D./M.B.A. ([[IIT]] [[Stuart School of Business]])
**J.D./M.S. in Financial Markets ([[IIT]] [[Stuart School of Business]])
**J.D./M.P.A (Master of Public Administration)
**J.D./M.P.H. (Master of Public Health, with [[UIC]])
**Bachelor's/J.D (with [[UIC]])
==History==
* The school is founded as the Chicago College of Law in '''1888'''.
* Chicago College of Law and the Kent College of Law merge to form the Chicago-Kent College of Law in '''1900'''.
* The school received its [[American Bar Association]] accreditation in '''1936'''.
* Chicago-Kent and the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] merged in '''1969'''.
* Landmark three year [[legal writing]] program begins in '''1978'''.
==Notable alumni==
* Ida Platt, 1894. First black woman admitted to the Illinois bar, second woman of color admitted to bar in the United States.
* Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, 1925. Appointed to Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois by [[President Kennedy]], 1963.
* [[Richard B. Ogilvie]], 1949. Illinois Governor, 1969-1973.
* [[Ilana Rovner|Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner]], 1966. First woman appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, by President Bush, 1992.
* [[Peter Roskam]], 1989. Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois's 6th Congressional District.
==Resources==
'''Official Resources'''
* [http://www.kentlaw.edu/ Chicago-Kent College of Law]
* [http://www.kentlaw.edu/overview/historical.html Chicago-Kent History] and [http://www.kentlaw.edu/overview/dateline.html Dateline]
* [http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/applicants.html Chicago-Kent Applicant Portal] and [http://www.kentlaw.edu/virtualtour/ Virtual Tour]
* [http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/students.html Chicago-Kent Student Portal]
== Notes ==
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[[Category:Illinois Institute of Technology]]
[[Category:Law schools in Illinois]]
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