school from 1969-72. Today the college has over 100 faculty and staff. Faculty members regularly appear as experts in legal proceedings, publish legal texts and contribute primary research findings to legal scholarship around the country. Law library The Paul L. Boley Law Library is the largest law library in Oregon and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest with a collection of over 505,000 volumes as of 2014. Boley is also home to clinical space and program offices. Animal Law Program Lewis & Clark Law School is a pioneer in the field of animal law, it offered some of the first animal law courses in the world and in 1992 students founded the first Animal Law Conference in the U.S. The Center for Animal Studies (CALS) was founded at the school in 2008, becoming the first formal animal law program in the world and eventually giving rise to the first Animal Law Clinic. In 2012 CALS launched the first post-JD master of laws (LLM) in Animal Law. The school has the top ranked animal law program in the United States. Rankings The 2021 U.S. News & World Report ranked the school at 88 as a Tier 1 institution. Individual programs continue to receive high marks: Lewis & Clark Law School's Animal Law Program is ranked 1st in the United States and as of 2021, it ranked 1st of environmental law programs, according to U.S. News & World Report'''s rating system. Meanwhile, the Lewis & Clark Part-Time Program was ranked 14th in the country as of 2021. Law centers and institutes Center for Animal Law Studies Earthrise Law Center Green Energy Institute National Crime Victim Law Institute Natural Resources Law Institute Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) Western Resources Legal Center (WRLC) International Environmental Law Project (IELP) Journals Lewis & Clark Law School supports three student-edited scholarly journals:Environmental Law ReviewAnimal Law ReviewLewis & Clark Law Review'' Practical skills National moot court competitions Lewis & Clark law students benefit from the campus serving as a destination for several national moot courts. In 2013, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts launched Lewis & Clark's Environmental Moot Court Competition, presiding as a guest judge. The campus also serves as the permanent host of the National Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) Moot Court Competition and the International Law Students Association (ILSA) Pacific Regional Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Additionally, the