Howard University School of Law

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Howard University School of Law is a historically Black law school in Washington, D.C., renowned for its pivotal role in civil rights legal advocacy and the education of prominent African American lawyers and judges.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf graduate school
historically Black law school
law school
accreditation American Bar Association
affiliation HBCUs
surface form: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
barPassageFocus preparation for bar examination
campusType urban campus
city Washington, D.C.
colors blue
red
country United States of America
surface form: USA

United States of America
foundedBy Howard University
foundingYear 1869
hasDean Danielle Holley-Walker
hasStudentOrganization Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Review
Howard Law Journal
Moot court program
historicalSignificance central institution in legal strategy against racial segregation in the United States
knownFor pivotal role in U.S. civil rights legal advocacy
producing prominent African American judges
training African American civil rights lawyers
languageOfInstruction English
library Howard University Libraries
surface form: Howard University Law Library
locatedIn Washington, D.C.
memberOf Association of American Law Schools
mission to provide legal education with an emphasis on civil rights and social justice
motto A Tradition of Excellence
notableAlumnus Charles Hamilton Houston
Douglas Wilder
Pauli Murray
Spottswood W. Robinson III
surface form: Spottswood Robinson III

Thurgood Marshall
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
surface form: Vernon Jordan

William Hastie
offersDegree Juris Doctor
Master of Laws
offersProgram civil rights law program
clinical legal education
public interest law program
parentOrganization Howard University
partOf Howard University
regionServed United States of America
surface form: United States
religiousAffiliation nonsectarian
specializesIn civil rights law
social justice law
state District of Columbia
type private law school

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Howard University School of Law
Description of subject: Howard University School of Law is a historically Black law school in Washington, D.C., renowned for its pivotal role in civil rights legal advocacy and the education of prominent African American lawyers and judges.

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Howard University hasSchool Howard University School of Law
Letitia James educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Thoroughgood Marshall educatedAt Howard University School of Law
subject surface form: Thurgood Marshall
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Robert L. Carter educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Spottswood W. Robinson III educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Spottswood W. Robinson III employer Howard University School of Law
Pauli Murray educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Howard Law Journal publisher Howard University School of Law
Howard Law Journal website Howard University School of Law
this entity surface form: https://law.howard.edu (Howard University School of Law main site)
Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Review publisher Howard University School of Law
Douglas Wilder educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Charles Hamilton Houston employer Howard University School of Law
Walter Washington educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Van Ness Street NW servesInstitution Howard University School of Law
Van Ness–UDC station nearbyInstitution Howard University School of Law
Forest Hills, Washington, D.C. hasNearbyInstitution Howard University School of Law
Van Ness, Washington, D.C. hasInstitution Howard University School of Law
this entity surface form: Howard University School of Law (nearby)
J. L. Chestnut educatedAt Howard University School of Law
Bruce Boynton educatedAt Howard University School of Law