A Building to Match Our Mission

The Vanderbilt Law School building was originally constructed in 1962, expanded in 1982, and extensively renovated and expanded again between 1999 and 2002. The end result is one of the most pleasant, comfortable and well-designed law school facilities in the country.

At the time of its original construction, the Law School was intended to house 290 students and 18 faculty members, along with a modest staff. By the time of its most recent expansion, the law school had grown to approximately 580 students and more than 40 faculty. Along the way, Vanderbilt Law School had added a legal clinic, a trial practice program, a prestigious national moot court competition, and two student-edited journals in addition to the Vanderbilt Law Review.

The most recent Law School expansion, completed in 2002, created a 73,000-square-foot addition to an existing 105,000-square-foot building, which was also extensively renovated to upgrade all of the school's existing facilities, according to a plan based on input from students, faculty, alumni and the Vanderbilt University Office of Campus Planning and Construction. The law school's attractive and functional classrooms offer state-of-the-art technological capabilities to facilitate teaching and support conferences and seminars, and the entire building offers wireless capacity.

The building's commodious design reflects the tradition, the character and the stature of Vanderbilt University Law School. Ample classrooms, wide corridors, pleasant offices, natural light, a central courtyard and numerous study areas foster the teaching, research, and intellectual and social interactions that are the core of the unique Vanderbilt University Law School experience. The Law School building projects the same sense of gracious comfort that characterizes the Vanderbilt campus.