Welcome to Brooklyn Law School. It is a tremendous honor and privilege to lead this great institution as Interim Dean during exciting legal education.
Located in the heart of one of the world's most diverse and dynamic urban areas, Brooklyn Law School offers an incomparable experience that places students at the center of federal and state courts, a booming high-tech and entrepreneurial community federal, state, and New York City government offices leading non-profit and legal assistance organizations and one subway stop away from the global financial center in lower Manhattan.
Opportunities abound at Brooklyn Law School to explore all law areas and connect through our robust alumni network with leaders and practitioners across various fields. Our students study with a distinguished faculty of dedicated scholars, teachers, and mentors. They are nationally recognized for excellence and devoted to developing lawyers ready for the challenges of their fields. The Law School's renowned Clinical Program is innovative and its externship opportunities among the most extensive in the country, taking students beyond the classroom to have real-world impact, from startup companies to individuals seeking asylum in the United States.
Beyond your studies, the Law School offers a vibrant world of student organizations, social activities, neighborhoods to explore, and many other opportunities to make the most of your time in Brooklyn Heights. To help you get oriented, we've listed resources that will help you stay in shape, get around, eat well, and situate yourself on campus.
The Brooklyn Law School Library holds one of the largest law collections in New York City. Our rich, multi-format holdings cover a broad scope of legal areas and support our faculty and students' research initiatives. The energetic team of law librarians and staff teach research courses, hold instructional workshops, and manage new technologies to enhance your library experience.
Brooklyn Law School's new Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship, or CUBE, is the hub for exploring legal issues surrounding entrepreneurship and providing effective legal representation and support for new businesses — while also training the next generation of business lawyers.
Founded in 1901, Brooklyn Law School is a vibrant intellectual community emphasizing teaching excellence, cutting-edge scholarship, and an innovative academic program designed to prepare students for public service and private practice. Our faculty members have earned national and international acclaim in diverse fields, including evidence, torts, civil liberties, intellectual property, product liability, criminal, international human rights, health law, and domestic and international corporate and commercial law. The Law School's adjunct faculty includes leaders in government, business, the judiciary, and private practice.
The Law School curriculum combines traditional course offerings and teaching methodologies with innovative professional skills training courses. Its nationally renowned clinical program – one of its kind – is today one of the country's most diverse and comprehensive professional skills programs. Brooklyn Law School clinics take full advantage of the Law School's ideal location, within blocks of many busiest courts, law offices, and government agencies in the nation.
Brooklyn Law School's academic centers host innovative scholarship and offer training in various fields and disciplines. From public interest law to private international law, from health law to law, language, and cognition, these centers host lectures, symposia, and conferences that enrich the learning environment by bringing experts from all over the world to the Law School students with valuable research opportunities.
The Law School attracts highly qualified students from the most prestigious undergraduate institutions, and our alumni network of 21,000 graduates extends worldwide.
The fundamental mission of Brooklyn Law School is to provide its students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical values needed for a law career. A well-rounded legal education exposes students to the theory and legal doctrine and gives them the practical skills expected of them as lawyers. To achieve its mission, the law school has created and is continuing to create a community of outstanding legal scholars and teachers and students who are among the best and the brightest.
Brooklyn Law School is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the law, legal institutions, and society.
Brooklyn Law School's faculty produces an impressive work body, including casebooks, treatises, and articles in distinguished law journals. The faculty's stature has dramatically enhanced the law school's reputation throughout the United States and abroad. Brooklyn Law School boasts more than a century of experience in training students to engage in law practice.
Our curriculum offers over 200 courses in a broad range of subjects, allowing you to pursue any field that interests you. It's a rigorous, academic approach that blends doctrinal and experiential instruction. The goal is to equip you with the knowledge and critical-thinking skills required of you as a successful, practicing lawyer.
Our clinical program - one of the first in the nation - is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive. The program offers students invaluable opportunities to work with real clients on real cases and develop an extraordinary skill set in the process. Our clinics and externships extend the campus to hundreds of state and federal courthouses, government agencies, law offices, and businesses throughout New York City.
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