page_title: UC Berkeley School of Law
section_title: Centers and Institutes
hierarchical_section_title: UC Berkeley School of Law / Centers and Institutes
caption_attribution_description: View of Golden Gate Bridge from Boalt Hall, Berkeley
context_page_description: The University of California, Berkeley School of Law is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley Law is consistently ranked within the top 10 law schools in the United States and the world and within the top three public law schools in the United States.
  In 2018, 97 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment within 10 months; the school's bar passage rate was 91 percent, and the median salary of graduates was $180,000. The law school offers J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and Ph.D degrees, and enrolls rapproximately 320 to 330 J.D. students in each entering class, annually, with each class being further broken down into smaller groups that take courses together.
  Berkeley Law has produced notable federal judges, politicians, Fortune 500 executives, noted legal academics and civil rights experts. Prominent alumni include Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chair of the Federal Reserve G.
context_section_description: Berkeley Law hosts over 21 centers, six primary clinics, and a five-area domestic and international field placement program for experiential learning in specific areas of the law. These institutes are located both on the UC Berkeley campus and in other regions of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and are often conducted through partnerships with attorneys, interest groups, law firms, and corporations throughout Northern California and the United States. In addition to these centers, students are given the ability and funding to create "SLPs", or student-initiated legal services projects.
caption: A view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay from the law school.
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