The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.The University of Chicago Law School has been accredited by the Association of American Law Schools since our founding in 1902. The Law School has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1923, the first year the ABA began accrediting law schools.The Law School has had a chapter of Order of the Coif since 1912.