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Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one... of five Marymount institutions of higher education. Loyola Marymount University traces its history through Loyola University, founded in 1911 as the successor to St. Vincent's College which was founded in 1865, and Marymount College, founded in 1933 with its roots in Marymount School which was founded in 1923. Loyola Marymount, which sits atop the bluffs overlooking Marina Del Rey and Playa Del Rey is the parent school to Loyola Law School located in downtown Los Angeles. As of 2010, Loyola Marymount is one of the largest Roman Catholic universities on the West Coast with just over 9,000 undergraduate, graduate and law school students. The names "Loyola" and "Marymount" have long been associated with Catholic higher education in countries around the globe. Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of The Society of Jesus, sanctioned the foundation of his order's first school in 1548.
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Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law , it is... named in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. The Frank Gehry-designed campus, is located in the Westlake neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles, and is separate from the Westchester main university campus. U.S. News & World Report ranked Loyola Law School 51st in its "America's Best Graduate Schools 2013" feature, which ranked the school 7th for trial advocacy and 10th for tax law. Loyola ranks higher on alternative guides such as The Princeton Review in addition to the Cooley rankings . The Cooley Rankings ranked Loyola Law School 26th in the nation in 2010. For speciality rankings: Distinct from most law schools, which typically reside in one or two centralized buildings, Loyola has a separate law school campus.
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