page_title: University of Chicago Law School
section_title: D'Angelo Law Library
hierarchical_section_title: University of Chicago Law School / Academics / D'Angelo Law Library
caption_attribution_description: Quad at the University of Chicago Law Library.
context_page_description: The University of Chicago Law School is a professional graduate school of the University of Chicago. It is consistently ranked among the top five law schools in the world, and has produced many distinguished alumni in the judiciary, academia, government, politics and business. It employs more than 200 full-time and part-time faculty and hosts more than 600 students in its Juris Doctor program, while also offering the Master of Laws, Master of Studies in Law and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees in law.
  The law school was conceived in 1902 by the President of the University of Chicago, William Rainey Harper. Harper and the law school's first Dean, Joseph Henry Beale, designed the school's curriculum with inspiration from Ernst Freund's interdisciplinary approach to legal education. The construction of the school was financed by John D. Rockefeller and the cornerstone was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt. The law school opened for classes in 1903.
  In the 1930s, the law school's curriculum was transformed by the emergence of the law and economics movement.
context_section_description: The D'Angelo Law Library is part of the greater University of Chicago library system. Renovated in 2006, it features a second-story reading room. The Law Library is open 90 hours per week and employs 11 full-time librarians and 11 additional managers and staff members. It has study space for approximately 500 people, a wireless network and 26 networked computers. It contains over 700,000 volumes of books, with approximately 6,000 added each year, including materials in over 25 languages, and primary law from foreign countries and international organizations.
caption: Laird Bell Quadrangle fountain in front of the D'Angelo Law Library.
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