it became a law to go to school in 1875.
when did it become a law to go to school?
1875
the elite law schools remained closed to women for a while after. pushed by the suffragist movement for women, harvard law school started considering admitting women in 1899 but without success. partly in response to the pressures of the suffragist movement and the unwillingness of elite law schools to open their doors, "in 1908, portia law school was founded in boston" which later became the new england school of law and was the only law school at the time with "an all women student body". in 1915, due to harvard's continued refusal to admit women, the cambridge law school for women was established as an alternative to elite law schools, and was to be "as nearly as possible a replica of the harvard law school as is possible to make it." world war i encouraged the movement toward admitting women to law schools, and in 1918, fordham law school and yale law school started admitting women. northeastern university school of law, at the time a ymca institution, started admitting women in 1923. harvard law school did not admit women until 1950. in 1966, notre dame law school started admitting women.
law school in the united states
yale law has been ranked the number one law school in the country by "u.s. news and world report" in every year in which the magazine has published law school rankings. among u.s. law schools, yale has the lowest acceptance rate and the highest yield rate—whereas less than 10% of applicants are admitted, about 80% of those who are accepted ultimately enroll, either in the fall following their acceptance or after a deferral. it is currently ranked as the second best law school in u.s (behind harvard) and fourth in the world by the 2016 qs rankings. the school also saw a greater percentage of its students go on to become supreme court clerks between the 2000 and 2010 terms than any other law school, more than double the percentage of the second-highest law school (harvard law school). in addition to producing the most supreme court clerks per capita, yale saw a greater percentage of its graduates accept federal clerkships among the united states courts of appeal and district courts than any other law school; more than one third of yale graduates go on to clerk for a federal judge. additionally, a 2010 survey of "scholarly impact," measured by per capita citations to faculty scholarship, found yale's faculty to be the most cited law school faculty in the united states.
yale law school