At UCLA’s law school, “The professors are all studs in their field, and most teach 1L courses. It's pretty cool to have a famous professor as a teacher in your first year.” Students feel like a priority to their professors and administrators despite the size of the student population, saying “Considering UCLA is a large university, the law school feels small and friendly.” They laud their professors, especially, for being “some of the most incredible, engaging and intelligent people I have ever met” and appreciate that they’ve been invited “to meals with or been at the homes of most of my professors.” UCLA’s “brilliant, renowned, accessible, kind” professors do a great job balancing professional and pedagogical responsibilities: “the number of professors who are considered authorities within their realm of expertise is unreal, and to know that these highly-reputed figures are willing to open their office for you because they truly care about your learning is incredible.” Indeed, students perceive their professors to be “completely committed to forming talented attorneys who will contribute to society.”UCLA law is “very progressive” and forward-looking in the legal field, resulting in an “incredibly impressive” “diversity of classes, opinions, [and] extracurricular programs.” “The David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and the Critical Race Studies Program are two very unique and well-run specializations”, and many “in-depth classes in particular areas” engage students. “The quality of discussion in the classroom is superb” across the board, and students credit this partially to the program’s “ample diversity.” When it comes to grading, the curve is kind: “The curve once you're in upper division classes is at a B+, so that's quite nice.”In their interactions with the administration, students often report that they’ve “greatly benefited from the services and support” of particular programs like “the Public Interest Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Program. I have a post-graduation job already thanks to the advice and support I received from the Public Interest Law Program's office.” For budding attorneys looking to practice in California (who may be the best served by a UCLA degree, as some students complain that the school has “no network on the east coast”), UCLA offers “access to more people and resources in the entertainment industry than any school in the country,” as well as “great connections to the legal community and access to jobs and internships.” In general, students find that “The administration is unbelievably supportive and communicative”, while also encountering that, not unusually for a large, public university, “There is a lot of red tape when trying to do anything out of the ordinary.” “In terms of facilities”, they critique, “The law school building itself is a bit of a mixed bag. I think they're in the process of renovating rooms continuously, so every semester a new room gets redone, but the two really big lecture halls are pretty outdated.”
- The Princeton Review
