California (Santa Ana) -- Trinity Law School, Trinity International University -- Accreditation: California -- Year Founded: 1980

The Trinity Law School as it is now known was founded in 1980 as Simon Greenleaf School of Law and was originally located at 3855 East La Palma Avenue, Anaheim, California. It was originally named in honor of the Nineteenth century Harvard law professor Simon Greenleaf who was a major authority on the laws of evidence and also wrote The Testimony of the Evangelists, which was a work of Christian apologetics concerning the evidences for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Simon Greenleaf School of Law was the brain-child of John Warwick Montgomery. Montgomery rose to prominence in the 1960s as a confessional Lutheran theologian and as a Christian apologist. He held the chair of Professor of Church History at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (1964-74). A founding board of trustees collaborated with Montgomery to establish in 1980 the Simon Greenleaf School of Law.

It commenced operations by offering evening classes in a four-year undergraduate course in legal studies that led to the JD (Juris Doctor) degree, and a one-and-a-half year post-graduate course in Christian Apologetics that led to the conferral of a Master of Arts degree.



Trinity Law School

About Trinity Law School

Dean: Donald R. McConnell, JD

Trinity Law School, located in Santa Ana, California, offers a three year full-time or four-year part time Juris Doctor program with classes available during both day and evening. The part time program enables students to work full-time as they complete their law degree. Graduates may sit for the Bar Examination of the California State Bar.

Law From a Christian Perspective

A dynamic law school in Southern California dedicated to legal studies from a Christian, natural law perspective, Trinity Law School prepares men and women to fulfill their callings as lawyers, judges, public officials, legal advocates, and professionals in vocations that require a solid legal education.

2200 North Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705 - (800)-922-4748

http://www.tiu.edu/law/preview