addition, UVA Law offers rising third-year students the opportunity to obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Students who successfully complete this program earn a French law diploma (entitling them to sit for the French bar exam) and a J.D. degree from Virginia. Students also may spend one semester abroad through the student-initiated study abroad program or as an external studies project. Each year one-credit courses are offered in Paris and Tel Aviv through the January Term. Institutes and centers UVA Law includes several internationally known special programs and centers directed by faculty members. The John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program Program in Law and Public Service Center for International & Comparative Law Program on Constitutional Law and Legal History Center for Criminal Justice Karsh Center for Law and Democracy Virginia Center for Tax Law PLACE: Program in Law, Communities and the Environment National Security Law Center LawTech Center Center for the Study of Race and Law Health Law Human Rights Program Center for Public Law and Political Economy First Amendment Center Family Law Center Center for Law & Philosophy Intellectual Property Immigration Law Public Policy and Regulation Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Animal Law Program Rankings UVA Law has long been regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. As of 2020, UVA Law ranked No. 1 in Best Classroom Experience, Best Professors and Best Quality of Life according to The Princeton Review. U.S. News & World Report ranks UVA Law as eighth in the nation. In the 2019 Above the Law rankings, which focuses on employment outcomes, UVA Law ranked first in the nation. A study published in the Journal of Legal Education ranked UVA Law fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms. Post-graduate employment According to UVA Law's official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 92.6% of the Class of 2018 obtained non-school funded full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation. A 2019 analysis conducted by Law.com placed Virginia in second for employment outcomes, behind Columbia, with 92.64% of graduates obtaining employment within ten months. Law firms UVA Law is fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms, and a survey by the NLJ found that UVA Law ranked third in the number of associates promoted to