Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Juris Doctor (J.D.)

[9] In 1900, the department moved from its original location in Encina Hall to the northeast side of the Inner Quadrangle.

[11] In 1924, Stanford's law program officially transitioned into a modern professional school when it began requiring a bachelor's degree for admission.

The decision that Stanford should remain a small law school with a very limited enrollment emerged during this period.

[9] A year earlier, in 1965, the law school enrolled its first black student, Sallyanne Payton '68, and in 1972, the school hired its first female law professor, Barbara Babcock, and its first professor of color, William B. Gould IV.

In 1984, it launched its first clinical program, the East Palo Alto Community Law Project.

[19] Launched in 2013, Stanford's Law and Policy Lab provides further opportunities for experiential learning.

[22] Based on surveys with students at the nation's 169 best law schools, The Princeton Review currently[when?]

[27] Advocacy skills are tested in the Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court competition.

The Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford holds 500,000 books, 360,000 microform and audiovisual items, and more than 8,000 current serial subscriptions.

As part of Stanford's grade reform, the law school no longer awards the honors of the Order of the Coif or Graduation with Distinction.

[30] Beyond numbers, Stanford places considerable emphasis on factors such as extracurricular activities, work experience, and prior graduate study.

According to ABA Required Disclosures, Stanford Law School had an average bar passage rate of 94.41% in 2022.

[32] According to Stanford Law School's official 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 90.4% of the Class of 2014 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.

[33] Stanford's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 3.2%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2014 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

[38] Based on a 2012 to 2014 average, Stanford Law has also achieved the second-highest (per capita) placement rate for federal judicial clerkships,[39] and for the class of 2014, reported the highest placement rate for federal judicial clerkships at 30.5%.

[45] The Stanford Law School faculty ranks within the top 5-10 range in the United States in terms of scholarly impact,[46] lower than its USNews rank, and faculty members include some of the most widely cited legal scholars in intellectual property law (Mark Lemley) and legal ethics (Deborah L.

[49] In 2013, The National Law Journal recognized Professors Jeffrey L. Fisher and Mark Lemley as two of the 100 most influential lawyers in America,[50] and in 2014, a study by Reuters identified former Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan and Professors Jeffrey L. Fisher, Pamela S. Karlan, and Brian Wolfman as among the 66 most successful appellate litigators before the U.S. Supreme Court.

[53] Consistent with Stanford's expertise in law and technology, Stanford Law graduates currently work or have previously worked as general counsels for many of the leading high-tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Cisco, eBay, Yahoo!, Qualcomm, Oracle, and Genentech.