Donald P. Klekamp College of Law at the University of Cincinnati

Donald P. Klekamp College of Law at the University of Cincinnati
MottoJuncta Juvant (Latin)
"Strength in Unity"
Parent schoolUniversity of Cincinnati
Established1833 (1833)
School typePublic law school
DeanHaider Ala Hamoudi
LocationCincinnati, Ohio, USA
39.12905°N 84.52010°W
Enrollment398 (2025)
Faculty130
USNWR ranking82nd (tie) (2026)[1]
Websitelaw.uc.edu Edit this at Wikidata
ABA profileStandard 509 Report

The Donald P. Klekamp College of Law is the law school of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.

History

The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously operating law school in the United States — after Harvard, Virginia, and Yale — and the first in the nation's interior. In 1900, it was a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools.[2] Then-dean (and future 27th President of the United States) William Howard Taft (1880) merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. Its notable alumni include two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Willis Van Devanter and Taft, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his presidency. Additionally, Jimmy Nippert, the namesake of the university's Nippert Stadium, was a student at UC Law at the time of his death in 1923.[3]

University of Cincinnati Law School (2022)

Until August 2022, the College of Law was located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati. Since August 2022, the College of Law has been located in a new building on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive W and Campus Green Dr.[4] The new premises were named the 11th best law school campus in the country by preLaw Magazine.[5]

In 2026, the University of Cincinnati College of Law was renamed as the Donald P. Klekamp College of Law at the University of Cincinnati.[6]

Academics

Degrees Offered

The Juris Doctor (JD) degree is offered, along with four joint degree programs, including a JD/MBA with the Lindner College of Business, a JD/MA Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies (first in the nation) with UC's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a JD/Master of Community Planning with the  School of Planning in the prestigious College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, and a JD/MA or JD/PhD with the School of Public and International Affairs.

Cincinnati Law also offers a Master of Laws (LLM) in the US Legal System for international attorneys. Graduate certificates in US Law are also available.

In 2026, U.S. News & World Report, ranked University of Cincinnati College of Law the 82nd best law school out of 197 in the nation.[7]

UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal.

Publications

Deans

Haider Ala Hamoudi Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, College of Law
Dean[8][9] Years Served
Timothy Walker 1833–1843
William S. Groesbeck 1844–1869
Charles L. Telford
Maskell S. Curwen 1850–1868
Rotated among faculty 1869–1873
J. Bryant Walker 1873–1874
Rufus King 1875–1880
Jacob D. Cox 1880–1897
William Howard Taft 1897–1900
Gustavus H. Wald 1900–1902
William P. Rogers 1902–1916
Albert B. Benedict 1916–1926
Merton L. Ferson 1926–1946
Frank S. Rowley 1946–1952
Roscoe L. Barrow 1952–1965
Claude S. Sowle 1965–1969
Samuel S. Wilson 1969–1970
1973*
1974–1978
Edward A. Mearns Jr. 1970–1973
Victor E. Schwartz 1973–1974*
Jorge L. Carro 1978–1979*
Gordon A. Christenson 1979–1986
Thomas Gerety 1986–1989
Joseph P. Tomain 1989–1990*
1990–2005
Louis D. Bilionis 2005–2015
Jennifer S. Bard 2015–2017
Verna L. Williams 2017–2019**
2019–2022
Michael Whiteman 2022–2023**
Haider Ala Hamoudi 2023–present

*Acting
**Interim

Employment

According to University of Cincinnati's 2022 ABA-required disclosures, 80% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[10]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-cincinnati-03128
  2. ^ "History". University of Cincinnati College of Law. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Complete story of how UC's Nippert Stadium got its namesake".
  4. ^ "University of Cincinnati - College of Law Building Design". www.bhdp.com. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  5. ^ "PreLaw magazine Spring 2022".
  6. ^ https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2026/03/university-of-cincinnati-college-to-become-donald-p-klekamp-college-of-law.html
  7. ^ https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-cincinnati-03128
  8. ^ "College of Law Deans". University of Cincinnati College of Law.
  9. ^ "Haider Ala Hamoudi named dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law". 9 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Standard 509 Disclosure".

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