Meanings
plural law schools
- An academic institution at which post-graduate students are prepared for the practice of law.
I barely scraped through law school.
3 more examples
GFU has a law school called Gender-Friendly University Law School.
1998, Shimon Shetreet, Women in Law, →ISBN, page 155If the college or university has a law school or a paralegal program, there usually will not be a law library committee because law and para-legal faculty take on that role through committee meetings and their daily interactions with the library's staff.
2012, Laurie Selwyn, Public Law Librarianship, →ISBN, page 57You will find reports of legal cases in law reports which are to be found in most university libraries (provided the relevant university has a law school).
2013, Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law, →ISBN, page 594
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna graduate school offering study leading to a law degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 法學院 /法学院
- 法學院 /法学院 (fǎxuéyuàn)institution
Finnish oikeustieteellinen tiedekunta, oikeustieteellinen yliopisto
- oikeustieteellinen tiedekuntainstitution
- oikeustieteellinen yliopistoinstitution
French faculté de droit
- faculté de droitinstitution
German Law School
- Law Schoolinstitution
Hungarian jogi/jogtudományi egyetem/kar
- jogi/jogtudományi egyetem/karinstitution
Japanese 法科大学院
- 法科大学院institution
Korean 법학전문대학원
- 법학전문대학원 (beophakjeonmundaehagwon)institution
Portuguese faculdade de direito, escola jurídica
- faculdade de direitoinstitution
- escola jurídicainstitution
Spanish facultad de derecho
- facultad de derechoinstitution
Vietnamese trường Luật
- trường Luậtinstitution
Cite this entry
law school. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/law%20school
“law school.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/law%20school. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “law school,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/law%20school.
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