The University of California, Irvine School of Law is the law school at the University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine). It is the fifth law school in the UC system and the first public law school to open in California in 40 years. In September 2007, Erwin Chemerinsky was announced as the law school's first dean.
Initially, it was announced that the school would be named for Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, in honor of his $20...
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The University of California, Irvine School of Law is the law school at the University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine). It is the fifth law school in the UC system and the first public law school to open in California in 40 years. In September 2007, Erwin Chemerinsky was announced as the law school's first dean.
Initially, it was announced that the school would be named for Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, in honor of his $20 million donation towards its founding. In 2008 an agreement was reached between Bren and UCI that the school would not bear his name. Chemerinsky said, "We are deeply grateful for the Bren gift, but it was decided between the chancellor and Mr. Bren that our name should be parallel to other UC schools."
In the summer of 2011, the American Bar Association granted the school provisional accreditation. As law schools need to exist for two years before being granted provisional accreditation, this was the earliest point at which the school could...
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