Campus

The Law School campus is located at 613 South Henry Street in the heart of historic Williamsburg, Virginia, halfway between Richmond and Virginia Beach and three hours south of Washington, D.C.  The campus is accessible by Interstate 64, AMTRAK or airlines serving the Richmond, Norfolk or Williamsburg/Newport News International airports.  The Law School is located a few blocks from the main campus of the College of William & Mary and the grounds of Colonial Williamsburg.

Founded in 1779, the Law School first conducted classes on the main campus of the College.  Two hundred years later, the Law School moved to its current facility on South Henry Street.  All classrooms, student organizations, faculty and administrative offices, the student lounge, the Law Library and the McGlothlin Moot Courtroom are housed in the Law School building.  Students have twenty-four hour access to the library and its two computer labs.  The Law School provides wireless Internet access throughout most areas of the building.  On-campus graduate housing and the McCormack-Nagleson Tennis Center are located next door to the Law School campus.

The College of William & Mary is a university small enough to provide for relationships that cultivate learning and community, and large enough to have the resources to achieve excellence. An important aspect of this community is its location in the historic City of Williamsburg, which offers, after a half-century of restoration and preservation, an unparalleled view of eighteenth century life. The educational, cultural and recreational opportunities afforded to students by the College, the City and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation add to the quality of life and education at William & Mary.

The Sir Christopher Wren Building, located at the west end of Duke of Gloucester Street, is the oldest educational building in continuous use in the United States. The Wren Building marks only the eastern tip of a campus that includes 1200 acres, approximately 40 major buildings, a large lake, extensive woods, and many playing fields and tennis courts.

Behind the Wren Building and stretching from the Sunken Gardens to Lake Matoaka is a beautiful wooded area known as the Jefferson Prospect. Surrounding Lake Matoaka is College Woods, an expanse of acreage that provides hiking trails and an exceptional natural laboratory for William & Mary students.

Environment

The Virginia peninsula boasts three treasures of American heritage: "The Historic Triangle" of Jamestown, site of the first permanent English settlement in America; Yorktown, where American independence was won; and Williamsburg, the restored colonial capital of Virginia. William & Mary's campus is a mixture of the ancient and the modern, reflecting 300 years of the College's past.

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