UC regents give go-ahead to law school
The UC Board of Regents on Thursday affirmed its decision to build a law school at UC Irvine despite objections from the California Post-Secondary Education Commission that the state doesn’t need another public law school.
The commission maintained that the state did not need more lawyers, that the cost was not justified and that the law school would duplicate other services.
The regents, meeting at UC Santa Barbara, unanimously voted without debate to override the commission’s objections and proceed with construction of the law school at UC Irvine.
It will be the first public law school to open in the state since 1965 and will be only the second in Southern California.
UC now operates law schools at UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and the Hastings Law School in San Francisco.
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