Irvine, California
University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 2011
- Institution type
- Public
- J.D. formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 169
- Median GPA
- 3.80
- Resident tuition
- $59,080
- First-year class
- 189
- Bar-required jobs
- 92.9%
- First-time bar passage
- 89.9%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s part-time list.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
- Civil Rights Litigation ClinicSchool page for Civil Rights Litigation Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Community & Economic Development ClinicSchool page for Community & Economic Development Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Consumer Financial Protection ClinicSchool page for Consumer Financial Protection Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Criminal Justice ClinicSchool page for Criminal Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Defending Democracy ClinicSchool page for Defending Democracy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Domestic Violence ClinicSchool page for Domestic Violence Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Environmental Law ClinicSchool page for Environmental Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Immigrant & Racial Justice Solidarity ClinicSchool page for Immigrant & Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology ClinicSchool page for Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- International Justice ClinicSchool page for International Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation ClinicSchool page for Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Startup and Small Business ClinicSchool page for Startup and Small Business Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Workers & Tenants Law & Organizing ClinicSchool page for Workers & Tenants Law & Organizing Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
164
Clinic positions available
341
293 filled
Field placements filled
104
Simulation course seats
701
Co-curricular offerings
8
Full-time faculty
54
137 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
