San Beda College of Law

San Beda College of Law is the law degree-granting unit of San Beda College, a private, Roman Catholic college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines.

The main campus, educational, and administrative offices are located at Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila.

College of Law

The College of Law was founded in 1948. Over the years, it has produced senators, justices of collegiate courts, trial court judges, active lawyers and law professors. It has also achieved one of the highest bar passing rates and largest number of law graduates among law schools in the country. A famous alumnus, Florenz D. Regalado, is a Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, an established author, and the holder of the highest bar exam grade in the post-war history of the bar exams in the Philippines.

In 2004, San Beda College partnered with the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the Philippine Judicial Academy to establish the Graduate School of Law, an entity that shall offer postgraduate studies on criminal justice and the judicial system in the country.

University of Law

The University of Law (ULaw) (formerly the College of Law) is the oldest private university in the United Kingdom. The university has been recognised as the world's leading professional law school by several magazines and annual publications of university rankings, including the Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings. Founded in 1961 as the College of Law, ULaw is the largest specialist provider of legal education and training in Europe. It was incorporated by royal charter in 1975, but in 2012, immediately prior to the granting of university status, the educational and training business of the college was split off and incorporated as a private limited company. This became the College of Law Limited and then the University of Law Limited later in 2012, while the charitable branch (which remained incorporated by the 1975 royal charter) became the Legal Education Foundation.

The university is one of the major providers of Continuing Professional Development courses for English and Welsh judges, barristers, solicitors, and paralegals. According to the National Student Survey, in 2014, the institution was considered as the Great Britain's joint second most successful university, with a learner satisfaction level of 92%.

Law school

A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction.

Law degrees

Brazil

In Brazil, law is studied as an undergraduate program. Students who succesfully complete such programs are awarded a Bachelor of Law and are allowed to take the bar examination, which is held twice a year on a nation-wide basis. Candidates who pass the examination are then allowed to work as attorneys.

Canada

The oldest civil law faculty in Canada offering law degrees was established in 1848 at McGill University in Montreal, and the oldest common law faculty in Canada offering law degrees was established in 1883 at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The typical law degree required to practice law in Canada is now the Juris Doctor, which requires previous university coursework and is similar to the first law degree in the United States. There is some scholarly content in the coursework (such as an academic research paper required in most schools). The programs consist of three years, and have similar content in their mandatory first year courses. Beyond first year and the minimum requirements for graduation, course selection is elective with various concentrations such as business law, international law, natural resources law, criminal law, Aboriginal law, etc. Some schools, however, have not switched from LL.B. to the J.D. – one notable university that still awards the LL.B is McGill University.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law

The University of Nebraska College of Law (UNLCL), colloquially known as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It was founded in 1888 and became part of UNL in 1891. According to Nebraska's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 64.5% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.

History

Initially founded as The University of Nebraska School of Law in 1891. In 2014, the law school changed its moniker to The University of Nebraska College of Law. Nebraska Law is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools and is accredited by the American Bar Association.

Employment

According to Nebraska's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 64.5% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. Nebraska's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 16.9%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

San Beda College

San Beda College (Spanish: Colegio de San Beda) and (Filipino: Dalubhasaan ng San Beda) is a private Roman Catholic Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located in Mendiola, Manila, for college and Taytay, Rizal for Elementary and High School. It was founded in 1901 primarily to "defend the Catholic battlements in the field of education." San Beda, which was known then as El Colegio de San Beda, started as an all-boys grade school in Manila. It has since then expanded to a full college with both undergraduate and post-graduate degree offerings. It has two other campuses: the San Beda College-Rizal (the largest San Beda campus in size) and the San Beda College Alabang (formerly known as St. Benedict College and Benedictine Abbey School) located in Alabang Hills Village in Muntinlupa City. San Beda College Alabang however is autonomous from the other two San Beda campuses and has its own set of administrators and officials. The San Beda Graduate School of Liturgy in Manila, meanwhile, traces its academic roots and origins to the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.