UC Irvine Hopes to Launch Law School in 2009

The University of California Board of Regents has approved a proposal to establish a new law school at UC Irvine. Assuming the plan wins the support of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the school would enroll its first students in the fall of 2009.

The UC Irvine law school would be the first public law school established in California since the mid-1960s and the second public law school to serve the southern part of the state.

Under the proposal, UC Irvine would enroll up to 69 law students in 2009. Class sizes would increase in subesequent years, building up to a total enrollment of 600 students.

Source: "UC Irvine to Get Long-Sought Law School," by Rebecca Trounson and Roy Rivenburg, the Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2006