Loyola Law School is the law school

Law school in the United States

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 of Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

, a private Catholic university in the Jesuit

Society of Jesus

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 and Marymount

Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary

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 traditions, in Los Angeles, California

Los Ángeles

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. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

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 and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

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 (separate and unaffiliated institutions), it is named in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola

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, founder of the Jesuits. The Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

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-designed campus, is located in the Westlake

Westlake, Los Angeles, California

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 neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

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, and is separate from the Westchester

Westchester, Los Angeles, California

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 main university campus.
U.S. News & World Report

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ranked Loyola Law School 54th in its "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012" feature, which ranked the school fifth for trial advocacy, ninth for diversity and 10th for tax law.