Accurate Names & Abbreviations for Law Schools

When referring to a school in your application materials and communications with that law school, you should make sure that you are using the names that they prefer to be called, rather than what you may know them as colloquially. Also make sure that you are using the correct name—some are schools of law, some are law schools, while others are colleges of law. You don’t want to miss such details.

Here is a (likely incomplete) list of how the top 50-ish schools refer to themselves in their marketing materials.

Law Schools’ Official Names & Abbreviations

• Yale Law School – YLS – Yale Law – Yale
• Stanford Law School– SLS – Stanford Law – Stanford
• Harvard Law School – HLS – Harvard Law – Harvard
• University of Chicago Law School – UChicago Law – UChicago
• Columbia Law School – CLS – Columbia Law – Columbia
• New York University School of Law – NYU Law – NYU
• University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School – Penn Carey Law – Penn Law – Penn
• University of Virginia School of Law – UVA Law – UVA
• University of Michigan Law School – Michigan Law – Michigan
• Duke University School of Law – Duke Law – Duke
• Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – Northwestern Law – Northwestern
• University of California, Berkeley School of Law – UC Berkeley Law – Berkeley Law – UC Berkeley –Berkeley (*note: no longer "Boalt Hall")
• Cornell Law School – Cornell Law – Cornell
• Georgetown University Law Center – Georgetown Law – Georgetown (*note: GULC no longer being used)
• UCLA School of Law – UCLA Law – UCLA (*note: the law school does not typically use the full name "University of California–Los Angeles")
• University of Texas School of Law – Texas Law (they prefer Texas Law over UT)
• University of Southern California Gould School of Law – USC Gould – USC
• Vanderbilt Law School – Vanderbilt Law – Vanderbilt
• Washington University School of Law – WashU Law School – WashU Law
• University of Minnesota Law School – Minnesota Law – Minnesota
• Notre Dame Law School – ND Law – Notre Dame
• The George Washington University Law School – GW Law School – GW Law – GW
• Boston University School of Law – BU Law – BU
• University of California, Irvine School of Law – UC Irvine School of Law – UC Irvine Law –UCI Law – UCI
• University of Alabama School of Law – Alabama Law – Alabama
• Emory University School of Law – Emory Law School – Emory Law – Emory
• Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – ASU Law – ASU
• Boston College Law School – BC Law – BC
• University of Georgia School of Law – UGA Law – UGA
• University of Iowa College of Law – Iowa Law – Iowa
• University of California, Davis School of Law – UC Davis School of Law – UC Davis Law – UC Davis
• University of Florida Levin College of Law – UF Law – UF
• Wake Forest University School of Law – Wake Forest Law – Wake Forest
• Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Maurer School of Law – Indiana Law
• The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law – OSU Law – Moritz – OSU
• UNC School of Law – UNC Law – UNC
• University of Wisconsin Law School – UW Law – Wisconsin Law – UW
• Washington and Lee University School of Law – W&L Law – W&L
• Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School – BYU Law School – BYU Law – BYU
• Fordham University School of Law – Fordham School of Law – Fordham Law – Fordham
• The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law – University of Arizona Law – Arizona Law
• University of Illinois College of Law – Illinois Law – Illinois
• William & Mary Law School – William & Mary Law – W&M Law – William & Mary – W&M
• University of Washington School of Law – UW School of Law – UW Law – UW
• George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School – Scalia Law – George Mason
• University of Colorado Law School – Colorado Law – University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law – S.J. Quinney College of Law – Utah Law – Utah
• Baylor University Law School – Baylor Law School – Baylor Law – Baylor
• Florida State University College of Law – FSU Law – FSU
• Temple University Beasley School of Law – Temple Law – Temple
• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University – Cardozo School of Law – Cardozo Law – Cardozo