Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

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, is a graduate school

Graduate school

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 of Cornell University

Cornell University

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 and one of the five Ivy League law schools

Ivy League law schools

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. The school confers three law degree

Law degree

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s. The school has a student to faculty ratio of 10.4 to 1, the third lowest of the 184 American Bar Association

American Bar Association

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-accredited law schools in the United States.
The Law Department at Cornell opened in 1887 in Morrill Hall

Morrill Hall (Cornell University)

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 with Judge Douglas Boardman as its first Dean. At that time, admission did not require even a high school diploma.