Incoming classes are typically composed of about 125 students, including day and evening programs.

[6] Catholic University of America began offering instruction in law in 1895, as part of its decision to open "faculties for the laity.

[2] In 2025, according to U.S. News & World Report, 59.4% of the total student body was female and 40.3% male.

[10] The moot court team holds an annual inter-school competition between first year students ("1Ls") called SoapBox.

[6] Graduates who obtained full-time, long-term positions within nine months of graduation became employed in a variety of contexts, including approximately 4% in federal judicial clerkships, 15% in state and local judicial clerkships, 24% in government, 29% in private practice, 21% in business and industry, 6% in public interest, and 1% in education.

The day-division curriculum consists of seven required courses totaling 29 credit hours.

[14] Evening-division students are required to complete the same basic courses within the first two years of their law school career.

Revised for 2013, the curriculum is designed to strengthen first-year doctrinal courses, to support the development of practice-area concentrations, and to emphasize training that will help graduates transition to the real world of practice.

The upper-division curriculum comprises several requirements, courses that are strongly recommended, and elective options.

Foundational courses for all areas of legal practice—and thus strongly recommended for all upper-class students—include Evidence, Corporations, and Criminal Procedure.

program to study the essential substantive and procedural elements of the legal system of the United States.

Students can choose to concentrate in the fields of Compliance and Corporate Responsibility, Employment and Human Resources, or Intellectual Property.

[3] Catholic Law offers five opportunities for specialized legal study; four of them are certificate-granting.

[19] The Columbus School of Law has an extensive legal externship program through which about 200 upper-class students per year earn course credits during the fall, spring, and summer semesters by working in nonprofit organizations; federal, state, and local government agencies; Congress; and for judges, law firms, trade associations, and corporations in the D.C.

The building is located in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and is a five-minute walk from the Brookland-CUA metro station.