The University of Oklahoma College of Law is an ABA-certified law school located on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma. Currently, the College of Law has an enrollment of 513 law students. The College of Law was founded in 1909 by a resolution of the OU Board of Regents. It opened at the beginning of the next school year in September 1909. The first dean was Professor Julien C. Monnet of The George Washington University Law School. The College of Law initially shared space in the Science Building before moving to the basement of the Carnegie Building. The early law professors made OU Law the premier law school in Oklahoma and perhaps in the Southwest. In its 2009 publication, U.S. News & World Report ranked the College of Law 71st among the nation's "Top 100 law schools." In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. that Oklahoma could not bar African American students from its, at the time, all white law school. This was a landmark case in the early civil rights movement. A garden, located between Jacobson Hall and Carpenter Hall, now stands in honor of this event.