The Clinic provides pro bono legal support to low-income and minority communities suffering from pollution and environmental impacts. In 1994, the school's Environmental Law and Justice Clinic (ELJC) was founded. The law school's Public Interest Scholars Program includes the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Veteran's Legal Advocacy Center, and the Women's Employment Rights Clinic. In the 1990s, the school developed a graduate legal program in environmental law and an International Legal Studies Program. In 1978, the law school developed a graduate legal program in taxation. with Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business or J.D./ Ph.D. Students also may earn combined degrees: J.D./ M.B.A. and doctoral S.J.D.) programs in intellectual property, environmental law, taxation, U.S. The school offers a first degree in law (J.D.) and first graduate degrees in law ( LL.M. A new "west wing" of the university was completed in 1979, where most of the school's classroom space is now located.
In 1972, the college elevated to university status and became "Golden Gate University," with "Golden Gate University School of Law" as its law school.
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The law school held provisional accreditation from the ABA from 1956 until full approval was granted in 1971.
Following the national trend, the school replaced the Bachelor of Laws with the Doctor of Jurisprudence on December 1, 1967, effective spring 1968. In September 1966, the law school added a full-time three-year day program. In December 1964, the school moved to its present location, a 1924 warehouse known as the "Allyne Building" at 536 Mission Street near 1st Street in the South of Market, with the rest of the college moving there in June 1968. The college became fully independent of the YMCA in 1962. In 1923, the Law College and the YMA's local educational programs incorporated as "Golden Gate College," separating from the San Francisco Central YMCA. The Law College's graduates enjoyed the diploma privilege from 1915 to its abolition in 1917. In November 1910, the Law College moved with the YMCA to its purpose-built home at 220 Golden Gate Ave in the Tenderloin. On June 1, 1910, the school was incorporated as the "YMCA Law College" for the purpose of conferring LL.B degrees under authority of law. After the earthquake, the school was conducted out of tents and later leased space at 1220 Geary Street, now Geary Boulevard, in the Western Addition. Īs a component of the San Francisco Central YMCA, classes were held in the YMCA's five-story building at the northeast corner of Mason and Ellis Streets in the Tenderloin until it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The first graduating class in June 1905 had four male students. Like other YMCA Law Schools across the nation, it was established to provide full-time workers the opportunity to attend law school at night. GGU School of Law was founded in the autumn of 1901 as the YMCA Evening Law School, offering the first evening law program in the state of California.
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