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Law school in Boston, Massachusetts
In April 1953, Northeastern President Carl Ell announced that the law school would close. He cited the number of other law schools that had sprung up elsewhere in the city. Meanwhile, enrollment at Northeastern law school had plummeted, from 1,328 students in 1937 38 to 196 students in that year. The school's building and library on Mt. Vernon Street in Beacon Hill was eventually sold. Alumni who composed one fourth of Massachusetts's Superior Court judges as well as many District Court judges worked to reestablish the law school in 1966, based upon the university's signature cooperative, or co op, education model. Thomas J. O'Toole, a Harvard Law graduate, was selected as the school's dean in 1967. In 1970, Gryzmish Hall on Huntington Avenue was dedicated, which would later become part the Asa S. Knowles Center for Law. Despite the school's working class origins, rigorous new admissions policies resulted in a small student body of 125 students who nearly all came from financially well off families and upper echelon undergraduate colleges. Still, half of those admitted as first year students were women. Over the ensuing decades, students worked in co ops all over North America, led by a contingent in Alaska. A number of graduates practicing law as varied as Native American land claims in rural Maine; assisting migrant farm laborers in east Texas; at the Moscow, Russia office of Baker & McKenzie; the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in New Delhi; and countless legal services offices. NUSL integrates full time employment into its traditional JD curriculum, allowing students to graduate in three years the same amount of time as peers at other law schools. Following the first year of study, students alternate between classroom and co op professional experience until they graduate with three, full time employment experiences. Instead of grades, students receive written evaluations from their professors and co op employers. Northeastern has been named as one of the top public interest law schools in the nation. Many students participate in the school's clinics and institutes, such as the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. In addition, all students are required to complete a year long social justice project during their first year. Northeastern is #1 for "Practical Training," according to The National Jurist. The Princeton Review's "The Best 172 Law Schools" ranks Northeastern #2 among all the law schools for both providing the "best environment" for minority students and for having the "most liberal" students.

Tuition for a full time Northeastern student is $56,940 per year. The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees and living expenses) at Northeastern law school for the 2021–2022 academic year is $82,736.

Northeastern University School of Law has many student run organizations and activities, including affinity groups and shared interest groups such as Entertainment and Sports Law Society (ESLS), Human Rights Caucus (HRC) and Phi Alpha Delta International, a co ed fraternity. NUSL is home to two scholarly legal journals.

The Northeastern University Law Review is a law review founded in 2008 that publishes a broad array of legal scholarship primarily from law professors, judges, attorneys, and law students. Staffed and edited by law students, it is published twice a year. Staff members are selected largely based on an application that tests their fact checking and cite checking skills, and includes a diversity statement. The law review also publishes content through its online publications: Extra Legal and the Online Forum.

NUSL is co editor of the Journal of Legal Education, a quarterly publication of the Association of American Law Schools. The Journal publishes articles on legal theory, legal scholarship and legal education, among other topics. It claims a readership of more than 10,000 law instructors.