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Florida Coastal School of Law
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Established Winter 1996
School type For-profit
Dean Peter Goplerud
Location Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Enrollment 1539 (2009) (full-time); 162 (part-time)[1]
Faculty 131 (full and part time combined)[1]
USNWR ranking U.S. News Tier 4
Annual tuition $34,782(full-time); $28,156 (part-time)[1]$54,890 (per year total coast of attendance)
Website www.fcsl.edu
ABA profile 184

Florida Coastal School of Law is a private law school in Jacksonville, Florida. Established in 1996, the school is owned by the for-profit educational investment fund InfiLaw. Florida Coastal School of Law received its license from the state of Florida in 1995 and opened for classes in winter 1996. The class entering in 1996 graduated in spring 1999. The college was provisionally approved by the American Bar Association in 1999 and received its full accreditation in 2002.[2]
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* 1 Bar passage rate
* 2 Student population
* 3 Academics
* 4 References
* 5 External links

Bar passage rate

The Bar passage rate for first-time test takers for the July 2010 was 78.8 percent, tying for sixth place in the State of Florida.[3] 226 students from Coastal took the exam.
Student population

The entering 1L class for the Fall 2010 semester was approximately 760 students.[citation needed] Florida Coastal attracts students from all over the United States and from several foreign countries, promoting diversity on campus.[citation needed]
Academics

The school is on a semester system.[4]

In addition to its curriculum for a juris doctor, Coastal offers several certification programs in specialized areas of the law. Coastal currently offers an environmental law certificate, sports law certificate, international comparative law certificate, family law certificate, and an advanced legal research and writing certificate.[5]

Coastal also has an internship and externship clinical program. Criminal law externships in the United States Attorney’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office, and the Office of the Public Defender throughout Florida and the southeast United States are available to Coastal students.[6] Recently Coastal began offering externships in international criminal law with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the Netherlands. Internships in consumer law are available through Coastal’s Consumer Law Clinic, and students can learn to offer general legal assistance through a clinical program with Jacksonville Legal Services, a pro bono organization.[6]

Coastal established the Center for Law and Sports in 2005.[7] The Center offers students a comprehensive sports law curriculum in which to obtain a certificate in sports law.[7]
References

1. ^ a b c “Florida Coastal School of Law”. U.S. News and World Report. 2009. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/items/03184. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
2. ^ “ABA grants Florida Coastal School of Law accreditation”. The Florida Bar News (Tallahassee, Florida: The Florida Bar). September 15, 2002. http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNnews01.nsf/8c9f13012b96736985256aa900624829/b7905d840f36d61e85256c2c0054e858!OpenDocument. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
3. ^ http://www.floridabarexam.org/public/main.nsf/ES0910.PDF/$file/ES0910.PDF
4. ^ “Florida Coastal School of Law”. Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools. Newtown, Pennsylvania: Law School Admission Council. 2009-07-09. http://officialguide.lsac.org/SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/ABA_LawSchoolData/ABA5320.pdf. Retrieved 2009-12-19. [dead link]
5. ^ http://www.fcsl.edu/pdfs/certificateprograms.pdf
6. ^ a b Law School Public Interest Programs – Summer Fellowships
7. ^ a b Welcome to Florida Coastal School of Law

External links

* Florida Coastal School of Law — official site

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