1919 to 1950, the law school was located in Petigru College (in 1950, renamed to Currell College). From 1950 to 1974, the law school was located in the new Petigru College. From 1974 to 2017, the law school was located in the University of South Carolina Law Center at 701 Main Street. On July 27, 2011, the law school officially announced plans for a new building, to be located on a block between Senate, Gervais, Bull and Pickens streets in downtown Columbia. In February 2013, the university's board of trustees voted to pay more than half of the $80 million cost of the 187,500 square foot building with bonds backed by students' tuition payments. The new state-of-the-art building opened in June 2017, with space to accommodate over 660 students with instructional spaces including 17 classrooms ranging from 20 to 95 seats, a ceremonial courtroom, and law library. It also houses faculty areas, legal clinics, and student journals and organization spaces. Featuring the Karen J. Williams Courtroom, named for a late USC law school alumna who became the first female chief judge at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 300-seat ceremonial courtroom periodically hosts U.S. Court of Appeals sessions and also serve as an auditorium as well as large classroom. The school's law library houses over 500,000 volumes or volume equivalents, making it the largest law library in the state. Centers and Programs Centers and programs help to advance the academic, research, and service mission of the South Carolina School of Law. Children's Law Center Cybersecurity Legal Task Force Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism South Carolina Rule of Law Collaborative South Carolina Pro Bono Program Clinics Clinics allow second-semester second-year students and third-year students at South Carolina Law to learn the law and the standards of the legal profession by representing actual clients. Carolina Health Advocacy Medicolegal Partnership (CHAMPS) Clinic Criminal Practice Clinic Domestic Violence Clinic Educational Rights Clinic Environmental Law Clinic Juvenile Justice Clinic Nonprofit Organizations Clinic Veterans Legal Clinic Law Journals The South Carolina School of Law houses four student-edited law journals. The oldest, the South Carolina Law Review was founded in 1937, but traces its roots to the 1831 Carolina Bar Journal. Journal of Law & Education (JLED) Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal, published with the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association South Carolina Journal of