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Emory University School of Law

Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University, a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the American Association of Law Schools.[8]

Emory University School of Law

Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (Latin)
The wise heart seeks knowledge (Proverbs 18:15)

1916 (1916)[1]

US $43 million[2]

$7.31 billion (2018)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

815[3]

147[4]

35th (tied) (2024)[5]

90.9% (Georgia bar exam, July 2021 first-time takers) [6]

Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program

Externship Program

Transactional Law Certificate Program

Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques

Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Program

Students' expertise is developed through several clinics and programs. Emory Law also offers several summer study abroad programs in Budapest at the Central European University (CEU) and throughout the world.[13]


A team from Emory Law's TI:GER IP/patent/technology program, a collaborative program between Emory and Georgia Tech, was featured on CNN Money.[14] Other academic programs at Emory Law include:


The law school has a comprehensive externship program. Students have the opportunity to experience what it's like to work in a public defender or prosecutor's office, government agency, nonprofit organization, judge's chambers, or in-house counsel's office in the Atlanta metro area.

Emory Law Journal, which hosts the annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium.

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, the only national bankruptcy journal edited and produced entirely by law students, which hosts an annual banquet.

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Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review, a law journal focusing on corporate law and compliance issues.

, which publishes articles on topics ranging from human rights to international intellectual property issues.[19]

Emory International Law Review

IP Theory (online only, published jointly with )

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal edited by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, with student participation, and published in collaboration with Cambridge University Press

Journal of Law and Religion

Emory Law journal articles are accessible online through its Open Access institutional repository, Emory Law Scholarly Commons

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Employment[edit]

According to Emory's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 71.5% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required, non-school funded employment nine months after graduation.[21] Emory's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 13.2%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2017 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation, and an additional 3.7% were in school funded positions.[22]

Costs[edit]

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Emory for the 2023–2024 academic year is $96,884.[23]

Dean of the Emory University School of Law and the Georgia State University College of Law, former member of the Georgia State Senate

Ben F. Johnson

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