Located in the City of Durham, NCCU Law is one of only six HBCU law schools in the United States. NCCU Law seeks to provide legal education opportunities for all students with a focus on social justice and civic engagement. Since its founding in 1939, the law school remains committed to its mission to provide a quality, personalized, practice-oriented, and affordable legal education to historically underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds to increase diversity in the legal profession.