The Earle Mack School of Law is the law school of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The school opened in the fall of 2006 and was the first new law school in Philadelphia in over a thirty year time period, and is the newest school within Drexel University. The law school offers Juris Doctor degrees and provides the opportunity for all students to take part in a cooperative education program. In 2005, Drexel University announced its plans to create a new law school adjacent to the Drexel University Main Campus W. W. Hagerty library in West Philadelphia. That same year Drexel received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to start the school. The decision to launch a law school with cooperative education in a city with five other law schools was based on a demand for graduates with immediate experience, with the president of Drexel University, Constantine Papadakis, saying that employers "like to hire a graduate and have them immediately be useful." The Earle Mack School of Law joins Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Rutgers University, and Widener University to become the sixth law school in the Delaware Valley.