 The school 's first entering class had three students ; with Charles A. Packenham as the first graduate in 1886 . In addition to being the oldest law school in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest , Willamette College of Law was the 75th law school founded in the United States , and is the second oldest in the Western U.S. , behind Hastings College of Law in California . From its founding until 1923 , the law school was located in Waller Hall . 
