co-locate in the city of Ave Maria was abandoned in 2015 and the law school purchased the facilities it had been leasing. John Czarnetzky was named dean of the law school in May 2021. Academics and curriculum The school's curriculum combines a traditional legal education with an emphasis on how the law intersects with the Catholic intellectual tradition and natural law philosophy. All students are required to take courses in the moral foundations of the law, jurisprudence, and law, ethics and public policy. Faculty are to address moral issues in all courses, and to explore them through Catholic or other religious teachings. As of 2021, the school had 22 full-time and 14 part-time faculty. Accreditation, admissions, bar exam passage, and employment The law school was accredited by the ABA in 2005. In 2016, the school was sanctioned by the American Bar Association due to lax admissions standards. In February 2018, the ABA announced the lifting of the sanctions following remedial actions by the school. In 2021, the law school had an acceptance rate of 48.8% and an enrollment rate of 32.6% of admission offers. The 50th percentile LSAT score was 151 and the 50th percentile GPA was 3.17. In 2021, the law school had a first-time bar passage rate of 62.96%, with 69.05% passing in Florida, and 41.67% passing in other jurisdictions. For 2021 graduates, 43 of 68 (64.24%) had full-time employment in positions requiring bar passage, seven full-time in J.D. advantage positions, two in full-time professional positions, and one in a long-term part-time professional position. In 2022, the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar determined Ave Maria had failed to significantly comply with Standard 316, which was revised in 2019 to provide that at least 75% of an accredited law school's graduates who took a bar exam must pass one within two years of graduation. Graduates in 2019 had a 67.21% bar pass rate. However, Ave Maria had an 83.58% pass rate in 2018 and claims a 2020 rate of 89.7%, and so the school expects the matter to be resolved with the council at its February, 2023 meeting. Campus The school is a converted former retirement community in Vineyards that it initially leased, and later purchased, from Ave Maria University. The campus consists of academic facilities in five buildings, and residence facilities in apartments and sixteen villa housing units. The law library was converted