The University of Tulsa College of Law is the law school of the private University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. US News & World Report ranks The University of Tulsa College of Law at #82 among all law schools in the United States. It is the only law school in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and Eastern Oklahoma.HistoryThe University of Tulsa College of Law was founded by local attorneys in 1923, during Tulsa's oil boom. The law school was originally known simply as the Tulsa Law School and was independent of the University of Tulsa. Initially, classes took place in the Central High School building in downtown Tulsa, while the law library was in the Tulsa County courthouse, a few blocks away. The faculty consisted largely of Tulsa attorneys who practiced law during the daytime and taught classes at night. There were no full-time faculty.Tulsa Law was formally absorbed by the University of Tulsa in 1943. A pioneering Tulsa attorney named John Rogers is credited with making this association. In 1949, the school moved into a downtown office building. In 1953, the school was accredited by the American Bar Association. During the 1950s and 60s, the library, classrooms and administrative offices were consolidated at a single location and full-time tenured and tenure-track research faculty were hired. The school became a member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1966. The name of the school was changed to the College of Law.The college moved to its present location on the University of Tulsa campus in 1973, where it was housed in what was originally called John Rogers Hall. In May 2016, the university decided to remove the name of John Rogers from the law school's building, in response to increased controversy about Rogers' role in the founding of the Ku Klux Klan in Tulsa in the 1920s.
