Our School
In August, our law school, founded in 1897, began its 111th year of preparing students for a learned profession: the practice of law. In 1897, though we were a small proprietary night law school, we were an unusual one: the first in Ohio to admit women and one of the first to admit racial minorities. Today, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is an ABA-accredited, university-affiliated public law school; today, approximately 700 students from many cultures and life experiences are learning law from nationally respected teachers and scholars in an intellectual tradition as old as the written word. Beyond our curriculum, our clinics, our library resources, our law journals, our moot court teams, our internships and externships, our visiting scholar program—all the elements of contemporary legal education—we are, first and last, a community of teachers and learners who understand the power of the law to effect good and our responsibility to seek justice and serve others.