Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School
Coat of arms
Parent school	Stanford University
Established	1893; 131 years ago (1893)[1]
School type	Private law school
Parent endowment	$37.8 billion (2021)[2]
Dean	Paul Brest (Interim)
Location	Stanford, California, United States 37°25′27″N 122°10′04″W / 37.42417°N 122.16778°W / 37.42417; -122.16778
Enrollment	572 (2020)[1]
Faculty	70 (2023)[3]
USNWR ranking	1st (tie) (2024)[4]
Bar pass rate	98.25%
Website	law.stanford.edu
ABA profile	Standard 509 Report

Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021, the second-lowest of any law school in the country.^[5] Paul Brest currently serves as Interim Dean.

Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. Stanford Law also confers four advanced legal degrees: a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.), and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.). Each fall, Stanford Law enrolls a J.D. class of approximately 180 students, giving Stanford the smallest student body of any law school ranked in the top fourteen (T14). Stanford also maintains eleven full-time legal clinics,^[6] including the nation's first and most active Supreme Court litigation clinic,^[7] and offers 27 formal joint degree programs.^[8]