The School of Law provides an excellent legal education within a values- centered context. It has an enrollment of approximately 700 full-time students. Special programs include international law study semesters in London and Copenhagen, the Pepperdine-Union Rescue Mission Legal Clinic, the Geoffrey H. Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law, and the internationally acclaimed Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. The Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics and the Special Education Advocacy Clinic contribute to the law school’s distinctive approach to legal education. Approved by the American Bar Association and holding membership in the Association of American Law.
