Antonin Scalia Law School

What Antonin Scalia Law School does

Antonin Scalia Law School is a public law school operating as a component of George Mason University, located at the Mason Square campus in Arlington, Virginia. Founded in 1972 as the International School of Law and merged with George Mason University in 1979, it was renamed in honor of Justice Antonin Scalia in July 2016. The school enrolls 438 JD students (Fall 2025) across full-time, Flex-JD, LLM, Flex-LLM, Online LLM, JM, and joint/accelerated degree programs, supported by 52 full-time and 168 part-time faculty producing a 4.2:1 student-faculty ratio. The defining intellectual framework is Law & Economics — Economics for Lawyers is a required first-year course, and the curriculum integrates statistics, accounting, and finance with legal materials through an innovative Quantitative Methods for Lawyers offering.

The school's primary product portfolio centers on the JD program, six specialized graduate degree tracks, four student-edited journals, clinical programs in patent law, regulatory law, domestic relations, and other areas, and an expanding instructional ethics video series. Six research centers extend its academic footprint: the Law & Economics Center (LEC), C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, National Security Institute, Center for the Middle East and International Law, Global Wealth Management Project, and Liberty & Law Center. Technology infrastructure is built on standard legal-education platforms — Canvas LMS, Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, Westlaw/TWEN, CALI, Patriot Web, and Symplicity — with no proprietary AI/ML components.

Revenue is generated through a multi-stream model: JD tuition of $27,832 (in-state) and $44,968 (out-of-state) for 2025-2026, separate graduate program tuition, the LEC's $5M+ annual operating budget funded by grants and program fees for judicial and attorney general education, and donations channeled through the Foundation for Scalia Law. The school serves multiple customer segments including prospective JD students (median LSAT 169, GPA 3.93), graduate law students including international LLM candidates, sitting federal and state judges through the LEC, and alumni across 49 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 19+ foreign nations. ABA accreditation and AALS membership underpin the regulatory foundation, and outcomes include the #2 lowest debt-to-income ratio among U.S. law schools and 3 Supreme Court clerks since 2021.

Name

Antonin Scalia Law School

Legal name

Antonin Scalia Law School

Website

https://law.gmu.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Antonin Scalia Law School is a public law school at George Mason University in Arlington, VA, offering JD, LLM, JM, and joint degree programs grounded in a Law & Economics framework. It serves ~438 JD students, judges via its Law & Economics Center, and graduate law students nationally and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

ABA-Accredited JD-Granting Law Schools (EDAHAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

LLM & Post-JD Graduate Law Programs (EDAHAIAC), Law School Continuing Legal Education (CLE) & Executive Programs (EDAHAIAH), Online / Hybrid Law Schools & Programs (EDAHAIAE)

Keywords

• Legal education
• Law degree programs
• Juris doctor program
• Law and economics
• Graduate legal studies

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. JD Tuition: Full-time JD tuition and fees for 2025-2026 academic year: $27,832 in-state and $44,968 out-of-state. Revenue is a per-student annual tuition model, charged per academic year.
2. Graduate Degree Tuition (LLM, JM): Tuition revenue from LLM programs (including Online LLM) and JM (Juris Master) degree programs, which have separate admissions processes and likely separate tuition structures.
3. Law & Economics Center Grants and Programs: LEC operates as a $5+ million per year operation, generating revenue through grants, program fees, and institutional support for judicial education, law professor training, and empirical research for government bodies.
4. Donations and Development: The Foundation for Scalia Law collects donations through online portals, mail, ACH/wire transfers, IRA distributions, and planned gifts, supplementing institutional revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Antonin Scalia Law School offers graduate-level legal education including the Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), Juris Master (JM), and joint/accelerated degree programs, with a defining focus on Law & Economics. The school supplements degree instruction with six specialized research centers, clinical programs, an instructional ethics video series, and continuing judicial education programs delivered nationally to sitting federal and state judges.

Product overview

Antonin Scalia Law School offers a comprehensive legal education portfolio centered on its JD program with innovative Law & Economics focus, supplemented by graduate programs (LLM, Flex-LLM, Online LLM, JM), joint degree options, and experiential learning through clinical programs and moot court. The school operates six specialized research centers (Law & Economics Center, C. Boyden Gray Center, National Security Institute, Center for the Middle East & International Law, Global Wealth Management Project, and Liberty & Law Center) that drive scholarly research and professional education. Additional offerings include four student-edited journals, an instructional ethics video series for legal education, and bar preparation support services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Juris Doctor (JD) Program Three-year law degree program preparing students for legal practice, with a focus on economic analysis of law and four semesters of legal writing. Designed for prospective lawyers pursuing the primary U.S. law degree.
• Flex-JD Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Median LSAT 169 and median GPA 3.93 for Fall 2025 entering class
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Indiana University Maurer School of Law: Large public university ABA-accredited law school operating outside the Mid-Atlantic region, with comparable JD scale and public university parent structure. Comparable peer on program portfolio (JD, LLM, joint degrees) but in a different geographic market.

Direct peers

• William & Mary Law School: Public university ABA-accredited law school in Virginia. Closely matched on geography, ABA/AALS accreditation, public-university parent structure, and Virginia bar-market employer base; comparable JD scale and tuition model.
• American University Washington College of Law: ABA-accredited law school in Washington DC with comparable JD enrollment size and similar specialty JD focus areas (IP, international, law & economics). Directly competes for the same DC-area applicant pool.
• Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law: ABA-accredited DC-area law school with similar JD enrollment scale and similar regional employer pipeline into DC legal market. Comparable tier and tuition structure.
• Washington and Lee University School of Law: Small ABA-accredited law school in Virginia offering JD programs with strong scholarly impact. Comparable in size, Virginia jurisdiction, and emphasis on legal writing and professional formation.
• Howard University School of Law: ABA-accredited DC law school with comparable JD scale and similar federal clerkship and government placement outcomes. Competes for overlapping DC-area legal employer relationships.
• University of Richmond School of Law: ABA-accredited Virginia law school with similar JD enrollment scale, tuition model, and DC-region employer pipeline. Comparable mid-tier ABA-accredited competitor for in-state and regional applicants.

Broad incumbents

• Georgetown University Law Center: Top-ranked DC-area ABA-accredited law school. Largest DC competitor for applicants and legal-market employers; similarly offers JD, LLM (incl. online), and graduate law programming but at substantially greater scale and brand recognition.
• University of Virginia School of Law: Top-ranked Virginia ABA-accredited law school and the leading in-state competitor for high-LSAT Virginia applicants. Overlaps on JD programs, scholarly impact, and VA-area employer placements but operates at a substantially higher national ranking tier.
• George Washington University Law School: Larger, higher-ranked ABA-accredited DC law school. Overlaps on JD, LLM, and international-law programming and draws from the same DC capital-region legal employer base, but at a meaningfully larger scale and higher rankings position.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/georgemasonlaw
• Facebookfacebook.com/georgemasonlaw
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/george-mason-university-school-of-law

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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