Welcome to Minnesota Law. We are an exceptional community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni located in the heart of the vibrant Twin Cities. Our mission is to prepare talented students like you to become lawyers who will go on to make a difference. With highly accomplished professors, scholars, and teachers, one of the nation’s most distinguished clinical and experiential education programs, and a culture of collaboration and respect, the University of Minnesota Law School is waiting for you.
At Minnesota Law, we are deeply committed to welcoming your perspectives and experiences and supporting your success. We are a thriving community from diverse backgrounds, and we are dedicated to growing and learning together. Join us
William McGeveran
Dean and William S. Pattee
Professor of Law
Our collaborative
and collegial culture
fosters personal growth and leadership
abilities
along with tools for problem-solving and persuasion—skills that you’ll find essential in law school and beyond.
OUR COMMUNITY
45 STATES + WASHINGTON, D.C. REPRESENTED IN THE STUDENT BODY
250+ UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED IN THE STUDENT BODY
75% FROM OUTSIDE OF MINNESOTA
At Minnesota Law, you will join a welcoming and diverse student community of hard workers, team players, and creative thinkers. Outside the classroom walls, you will form friendships that will last a lifetime. From creating informal study groups to connecting with upper-level mentors, you will learn as a team and encourage each other to succeed. Our active student community hosts guest speakers and lively debates every day. With dozens of student organizations, you’ll have plenty of ways to pursue your passions.
“From classmates in my 1L section cheering each other on during our first year of law school to the encouragement I received from my student mentor to apply for a Peggy Browning Fellowship, the Minnesota Law community has provided a lot of support. This summer, I was thrilled to be selected as a Peggy Browning Fellow and work for the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan. Interning at UAW has been an unmatched learning opportunity, as well as a great working environment. While this great summer experience had to eventually come to an end, I was excited to return to Minnesota Law to help organize events with my amazing colleagues in the student organizations I belong to.”
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Hollywood, Florida
Summer Employment: United Auto Workers, Detroit, MI
Activities: American Constitution Society, Asylum Law Project, Minnesota Plaintiffs Law Association, and the Student Employment and Labor Law Association
“This summer, I was thrilled to be selected as a Peggy Browning Fellow and work for the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan.”
Read about Yessenia’s summer experience as a Peggy Browning Fellow
some of the most accomplished scholars in the world,
OUR FACULTY
8:1
STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO
60% OF FACULTY HAVE RECEIVED TEACHING-RELATED AWARDS
25% OF LAW STUDENTS ARE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Imagine learning directly from faculty who have spearheaded national legislative and judicial reforms, founded programs that provide free legal services to underserved individuals and communities, advised U.S. presidents and Congress, and led governmental bodies, businesses, and major nonprofit organizations.
These esteemed professors will become your lifelong mentors as they bring their real-world experiences and perspectives into the classroom. Through our uniquely collaborative approach, you will work shoulder-to-shoulder with faculty to co-author scholarly articles, represent clients in our law clinics, and develop your lawyering and leadership skills.
University Regents Professor; Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society; and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the Law School
Professor Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin is an expert in human rights law, international human rights law, gender and conflict, national security, and more. In 2017, she was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. For more than six years, she worked closely with states and United Nations entities to advance human rights protections in some of the most difficult contexts globally. She was elected to the International Commission of Jurists in 2023. In 2024, Professor Ní Aoláin was appointed Honorary King’s Counsel (KC Hon) by His Majesty King Charles III of England.
Coleman Professor of Law Expertise: Energy Law Transportation Law Energy Infrastructure
“The
Human Rights Center is the essential connector — bringing law students as well as local and national communities into dialogue about human rights advocacy and research.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Expertise: Racial Justice & the Law Critical Race Theory Appellate Advocacy
Associate Professor of Law Expertise: Policing Fourth Amendment Race and the Law
Associate Professor of Law Expertise: Administrative Law Constitutional Law Fourteenth Amendment
University of Minnesota Law School
Learn how the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic prepared to go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
As one of the nation’s premier public law schools, Minnesota Law offers you a stellar academic experience. Choose from a robust selection of courses on cuttingedge topics such as bioethics, artificial intelligence, and data privacy. You may also decide to gain a competitive edge by focusing your studies through one of our 12 concentrations, such as Business Law, Environmental & Energy Law, Labor and Employment Law, and Human Rights Law.
At the same time, Minnesota Law is widely recognized as having stronger practical training than other top law schools. We offer a vast array of clinics, public and private externships and fellowships, and simulation courses — not to mention our championship-winning moot court and mock trial teams that will help you develop legal skills you’ll rely on throughout your career. 28
“Under the leadership of Gun Violence clinic director, Visiting Clinical Professor of Law Megan Walsh, I learned how the work we did in the clinic and legal reforms I testified about in front of the Minnesota Legislature can save lives. I saw the meticulous research and persistent advocacy that are necessary to change peoples’ minds — particularly when it comes to subjects that are often policitized. Because the best advocacy works both within and outside the legal system, Professor Walsh and I published op-eds about our research that were syndicated in dozens of newspapers across the country. These experiences taught me that the law, despite its emphasis on history, remains a work in progress.”
Undergrad: Washington University, St. Louis
Hometown: Weston, MA
Employment: Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN
Activities: Minnesota Law Students for Economic Justice, Sports Law Association, Student Director, Gun Violence Prevention Clinic, Managing Editor, Minnesota Law Review
“Testifying in front of the Minnesota Legislature was the thrilling culmination of a research project I undertook with fellow students in the Gun Violence Prevention Clinic.”
Mitchell
“Getting to know my students outside the classroom is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. Beating them at pickleball is a bonus!”
Meet the Deans: Find out more about Assistant Dean of Experiential Education Mitchell Zamoff
This is a representative sample of courses and subject to change. Courses listed have been offered at least once in the past three years or are planned for the 2024-25 academic year. (See page 12 for a QR Code).
Advanced Corporate Law
Advanced LLC’s and Partnerships
Advanced Real Estate Transactions
Antitrust
Bankruptcy: Power, Process and Procedure
Basic Federal Income Tax
Behavioral Law and Economics
Business and Human Rights
Business Associations/Corporations
Business Law Concentration
Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy
Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Comparative Laws
Complex and Cross-Cultural Negotiations
Construction Law
Contract Drafting
Contracts
Corporate Counsel
Corporate Externship Field Placement
Corporate Tax
Creditors Remedies/Secured Transactions
Employee Benefits
Essentials of Business for Lawyers
Estate Planning
European Union Business Law
Federal Reserve Systems-Legal and Policy Perspectives
Federal Securities Regulation
Federal Tax Procedure
Financial Crises and Scandals and How to Minimize Them
Financial Regulation
Food, Drug and Device Law
Franchise, Dealer/Distribution Law
Game Theory and the Law
Insurance Law
Integrative Leadership: From Theory to Practice
International Bankruptcy
International Business Operations and Negotiations
International Business Transactions
International Tax
International Trade
Investment Management Law
Law Firm Field Placement
Law Firm Practice and Management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Nonprofit Law
Partnership Taxation
Products Liability
Professional Responsibility – Business
Racketeering and the RICO Act: Criminal & Civil Liability
Real Estate Transactions
Risk and Compliance: Corporate - Legal and Practical Foundations
Risk and Compliance: Theory and Practice
Securities Litigation
U.S. Economic Sanctions and Export Controls Law
White Collar/Corporate Crime
Advanced Torts
Advanced Trial Practice
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Appellate Advocacy
Civil Litigation: Case Development and Discovery
Civil Procedure
Civil Procedure II
Conflict Resolution
Construction Law
Cooperative Lawyering and Problem Solving Courts: Lawyers as Peacemakers
Creative Legal Reasoning
Depositions
E-Discovery
Evidence
Evidence Drafting
Federal and State Courts
Federal Jurisdiction
Federal Tax Procedure
Immigration Law: Asylum, Removal, and “Crimmigration”
Intercollegiate Mock Trial Team
International Commercial Arbitration
Interviewing, Counseling, & Negotiating
Judicial Field Placement
Judicial Writing Law of Lobbying
Legislative Process Mediation
Negotiation: Government Relations and the Legislative Process
Patent Prosecution Practice I
Patent Prosecution Practice II
Practice-Ready Legal Research
Products Liability
Professional Responsibility
Remedies
Remote Semester Field Placement
Saeks Public Interest Residency and Externship
Securities Litigation
Trial Practice
Visual Advocacy
Winning Patent Litigation
Constitutional and Public Law
Advanced Administrative Law
Analytical Methods for Lawyers: An Introduction
Behavioral Law and Economics
Campaign Finance and Election Law
Cannabis Law & Policy: Past, Present, and Future
Civil Procedure II
Congress, the President, and the Constitution
Constitutional Law: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
Constitutional Law: Fourteenth Amendment
Consumer Protection Law
Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech and Press
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Criminal Procedure: Investigation
Critical Race Theory
Disability Law
Education Law & Policy
Equal Protection and Civil Rights Acts
Federal and State Courts
Federal Habeas Corpus Federal Jurisdiction
First Amendment
14th Amendment and Race
Game Theory and the Law
Gender Theory and the Law
Health Law
Housing and School Segregation
Human Trafficking
Indian Law
Latinx and the Law
Law & Economics
Law, Biomedicine, and Bioethics
Law of Lobbying
Law of the Sea
Law, Race & Social Psychology
Legislation and Regulation
Legislative Process
Magna Carta and the Evolution of Anglo-American Law
Originalism
Policy-Making and Public Administration
Poverty Law: Housing and Government
Benefits Law
Professional Responsibility – Government
Public Interest Advocacy and State At-
torney General
Public Interest Field Placement
Public Law Workshop
Race and the Law: Systems, Structures, and Solutions
Recent Books on the Constitution Remote Semester Field Placement
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights
Rule of Law
Saeks Public Interest Residency and Externship
Sex Discrimination
Smart Growth
State Constitutional Law
Supreme Court
Transportation Law & Policy
U.S. Supreme Court and Great Cases That Have Shaped the Nation
Women’s Legal History
Abolition and the Carceral State
Cannabis Law & Policy: Past, Present, and Future
Criminal Justice: Behind the Robe and Beyond
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Criminal Procedure: Investigation
Criminal Punishment
Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Death Penalty
Evidence
Evidence Drafting
Federal Habeas Corpus
Human Trafficking
Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crime and Criminalization Migration
International Criminal Law
Law and Neuroscience
Overturning Criminal Convictions: Postconviction Relief Policy, Law and Practice
Professional Responsibility-Criminal Law Ethics
Race and the Law: Systems, Structures, and Solutions
Racketeering and the RICO Act: Criminal & Civil Liability
Trial Practice
White Collar/Corporate Crime
Wrongful Convictions
Advanced Administrative Law
Advanced Environmental Law
Agriculture and the Environment
Climate Law
Energy Law
Energy and Utility Law
Environmental Law
Food, Drug and Device Law
Indian Law
International Energy Development
International Environmental Law
Land Use Planning
Law of the Sea
Products Liability
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real Estate Transactions
Smart Growth Water Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Constitutional Conflicts: Reproductive Rights and Beyond
Education Law & Policy
Employment and Family-Based
Immigration Law
Estate Planning
Family Law
Family Law Capstone
Interviewing, Counseling, & Negotiating
Poverty Law: Housing and Government
Benefits Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Wills and Trusts
Advanced Administrative Law
Biotechnology & Patent Law
Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Data Compliance Practicum
Data Privacy Law
Disability Law
Employee Benefits
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Food, Drug and Device Law
Health Law
Insurance Law
International Human Rights Law
Law and Neuroscience
Law, Biomedicine and Bioethics
Nonprofit Law
Regulation of the Medical Device Industry
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Risk and Compliance: Theory and Practice
Advanced Administrative Law
Business and Human Rights
Death Penalty
Employment and Family-Based Immigration Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Equal Protection: Race and the Civil Rights Acts
European Human Rights Law
Family Law
First Amendment
Gender Theory and the Law
Human Rights Advocacy
Human Rights Law Field Placement
Human Trafficking
Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crimes and Criminalizing Migration
Immigration Law: Asylum, Removal, and “Crimmigration”
Immigration Law Field Placement
Immigration Reforms Through History: An Ongoing Legal Narrative
Indian Law
International Criminal Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law
Laws of War
Poverty and Human Rights
Practice-Ready International Legal Research
Public Interest Field Placement
Race and the Law: Systems, Structures, and Solutions
Refugee and Asylum Law
Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights
Rule of Law
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Human Rights
Women’s International Human Rights
Biotechnology & Patent Law
Copyright
Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Data Compliance Practicum
Data Privacy Law
Digital Evidence
E-Discovery
First Amendment
Food, Drug and Device Law
Health Law
Intellectual Property in Practice
Intellectual Property Survey
Intellectual Property Transactions
International Business Operations and Negotiations
International Intellectual Property
Law and Neuroscience Law, Biomedicine and Bioethics
Patent Drafting and Oral Advocacy
Competition Team
Patent Field Placement
Patent Law Capstone: Innovation
Patent Law in Practice
Patent Portfolio Management
Patent Prosecution Practice I
Patent Prosecution Practice II
Patent Remedies
Patent Research and Writing
Patents
Regulation of the Medical Device Industry
Trademarks
Trade Secret Law
U.S. Economic Sanctions and Export Controls Law
Winning Patent Litigation
Complex and Cross-Cultural Negotiations
European Human Rights Law
European Union Business Law
Immigration Law: Asylum, Removal, and “Crimmigration”
Immigration Law Field Placement
International Bankruptcy
International Business Operations and Negotiations
International Business Transactions
International Commercial Arbitration
International Criminal Law
International Human Rights Law
International Intellectual Property
International Law
International Tax
International Trade Law of International Organizations Law of the Sea Laws of War
Practice-Ready International Legal Research
Rule of Law
U.S.-China Trade War
U. S. Foreign Relations
U.S. Trade Sanctions and Export Controls Law
Women’s International Human Rights
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Conflict Resolution
Disability Law
Employee Benefits
Employment and Family-Based
Immigration Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Human Trafficking
Immigration Law: Asylum, Removal, and “Crimmigration”
Labor Law
Sex Discrimination
Worker’s Compensation: Litigation and Administrative Law
Basic Federal Income Tax
Corporate Tax
Employee Benefits
Essentials of Business for Lawyers
Estate Planning
Federal Tax Procedure
International Tax
Nonprofit Law
Partnership Taxation
Wills and Trusts
2024–25 Course Guide
(32 credits)
• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional Law: Federalism and Separation of Powers
• Contracts
• Criminal Law
• Law in Practice
• Legal Research & Writing
• Property
• Torts
• 1L Elective (choose one)
Civil Procedure II
Essentials of Business for Lawyers
International Law
Legislation and Regulation
* Approximately 18 credits required for upper division courses
Clinics
Bankruptcy
Business Law & Entreprenuership
Child Advocacy & Juvenile Justice
Civil Rights Appellate
Clemency Project
Community Legal Partnership for Health
Community Mediation
Consumer Protection
Criminal Defense
Criminal Prosecution
Detainee Rights
Employment Law
Environmental & Energy Law
Family Law
Federal Defense
Federal Immigration Litigation
Gun Violence Prevention
Housing Law
Human Rights Litigation & Advocacy
Immigration & Human Rights Law
Indian Child Welfare
Innocence
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property
Racial Justice Law
Ronald M. Mankoff Tax (Federal Income)
Rural Immigrant Access
Sports & Name, Image, Likeness
Topical Field Placements include the Public Interest Field
Placement, Human Rights Law Field Placement, Immigration Law Field Placement, Patent Field Placement, Corporate Externship Field Placement, Law Firm Field Placement and Judicial Externship.
Law in Practice (LiP) is the University of Minnesota Law School’s unique experiential learning course required for all first-year J.D. students. The course transforms law students’ emerging knowledge of legal doctrine and reasoning into an introductory understanding of the actual practice of law.
Students are required to focus on legal writing throughout their three years of study. As students write and talk about the law, their understanding of the law develops. Expanding both understanding and communications skills increases students’ abilities to solve problems for clients in clinical settings.
Moot courts provide training in written and oral advocacy by giving students mock problems involving current real-world legal issues. Students then argue the cases to appellate courts, using the techniques and processes of real lawyers.
• Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Moot Court
• Environmental Law Moot Court
• Intellectual Property Moot Court
Plus! 15 Moot Court competition teams.
Students can satisfy legal writing requirements and gain valuable legal writing experience by participating on a journal.
• Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality
• Minnesota Journal of International Law
• Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
• Minnesota Law Review
NEW!
Minnesota Law recently added a 12th concentration in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Business Law
Civil Litigation
Criminal Justice
Environmental & Energy Law
Family Law
Health Law & Bioethics
Human Rights Law
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property & Technology Law
International Law
Labor & Employment Law
• Brazil – Rio de Janeiro
• France – Lyon
• Germany – Berlin
• Germany – Hamburg
• Ireland – Dublin
• Italy – Milan
• Netherlands – Tilburg
• Norway – Bergen
• Spain – Barcelona
• Sweden – Uppsala
• Uruguay – Montevideo
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Find out how Jessica Hughes-Porter ’24 spends a typical day studying abroad in Norway at our partner law school, The University of Bergen.
Enchance your Minnesota Law experience when you participate in student organizations, activities, and leadership opportunities.
University of Minnesota Law School
10 PROFESSIONAL AFFINITY GROUPS IN THE TWIN CITIES
STUDENT-LED JOURNALS STUDENT EXPERIENCE
35+
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
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By fostering a collegial environment that strives to be equitable and inclusive, Minnesota Law welcomes students from across the U.S. and around the world who represent diverse cultural, professional, and educational backgrounds.
Student-led initiatives, robust academics, and a wide range of programs create a vibrant intellectual and social community. Our culture emphasizes teamwork, problem solving, leadership. and persuasion. Minnesota Law is a great place to be a student. You’ll learn from some of the best faculty in the world and life-long connections with your classmates.
“Law students — and lawyers broadly — often talk about imposter syndrome; about not feeling like the law is ‘designed for us.’ In many ways, they (we) are right. What I see at Minnesota Law though, is a frank discussion of these fears and of the institutional, legal, and class barriers that create them. Collegiality and respect for others are guiding principles, but collegiality is not an excuse to bury our heads in the sand and pretend we live in an oasis of perfect equity. Minnesota Law students live in the real, sometimes ugly, unfinished world that is the product and producer of the law. We get a unique legal perspective, but we also learn to trust ourselves and one another.”
Undergrad: The College of Wooster
Hometown: Denver, CO
Summer Employment: Federal Tax Clinic, Minneapolis, MN
Activities:
Admissions Ambassador, Law Council, OutLaw, and an avid fan of The Fighting Mondales
Schedule a virtual 1:1 with Admissions staff or a student ambassador
“As Minnesota Law students, we get a unique legal perspective, but we also learn to trust ourselves and one another.”
The Twin Cities is one of the most livable metro areas in the country with incredible park systems, hundreds of miles of trails, an amazing chain of lakes, and an internationally renowned music scene
Watch a video: Meet the Twin Cities
The Twin Cities is a great place to learn and live. Add to that distinctive neighborhoods, seven professional sports teams, and a modern light rail system just steps from the Law School’s front door, and you’ll see why so many people who come to the area choose to stay.
Our prime location affords you ready access to state and federal courts, the state capitol, and the thriving Twin Cities legal and corporate world. As one of the nation’s top law schools, Minnesota Law is perfectly positioned to connect you with our engaged network of area alumni, local legal and business leaders, and professional opportunities in the Twin Cities and far beyond.
“In my spare time I love to attend concerts, comedy shows, and sporting events. The Twin Cities has an awesome concert circuit and many venues that cater to various categories of entertainment. Just this summer I attended a concert, a Twins game, and a Lynx game. There are many opportunities to be active in the Twin Cities. I recently started swimming recreationally and I enjoy taking long walks in the city and hiking in Minnesota’s state parks.”
Undergrad: Minnesota State University, Mankato
Hometown: Mulberry Grove, IL
Summer Employment: Robins Kaplan LLP, Minneapolis, MN
Activities:
Asylum Law Project, President, Black Law Student Association, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Moot Court, Innocence Clinic, teaching assistant for Professor Zamoff
Schedule a virtual 1:1 with Admissions staff or a student ambassador
“Minnesota is a place that welcomes transplants with enthusiasm and opportunity to grow, learn, and lead.”
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advantage of events happening regardless of the weather!
are interested in exploring
At Minnesota Law, we not only help you define your career path, we help you achieve it.
EMPLOYER RECRUITING
University of Minnesota Law School
11K CAREER COUNSELING APPOINTMENTS HELD BY THE CAREER CENTER LAST YEAR
200+
EMPLOYERS
RECRUITING
1,250+ EMPLOYERS POSTED MORE THAN 3,000 JOB OPENINGS
Our highly experienced Career Center team will work closely with you from the very beginning to help you achieve your goals and ensure you are empowered for lifelong career success. Our counselors help you identify the professional development you need to prepare for a wide range of career paths.
In addition to one-to-one guidance, the team provides access to networking events, hosts career fairs, offers workshops and training opportunities, assists in the judicial clerkship application process, helps with resumes, and much more. This robust support helps explain our graduates’ superb employment outcomes.
“Minnesota Law has presented me with many amazing experiences, such as externing for a judge and serving as an executive board member for the Minnesota Law Review — both of which would not be possible without the support of the Minnesota Law community. Through these opportunities, I have learned so much about myself and the practice, as well as gain experiences that I never thought I would have. While I may have a plan for my future, I never know what opportunity may present itself — especially as a Minnesota Law graduate.”
Undergrad: Creighton University
Hometown: Shawnee, KS
Summer Employment: Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL
Activities:
Admissions Ambassador, Minnesota Law Review, SSG Instructor, Orientation Leader, Saint Thomas More Society
with Admissions staff or a student ambassador
“One thing I learned at Minnesota Law that I hope to take with me in my career is to take advantage of every opportunity.”
TOP MARKETS FOR 2023 GRADS: California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS
See where our grads go
97%
EMPLOYMENT RATE AT 10 MOS. 2023 Grads: FT/LT JD REQ’D/JD ADV
92% BAR PASSAGE RATE First time test takers MN July 2023
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2023 GRADS WERE SELECTED FOR FEDERAL, STATE, AND TRIAL JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS
With more than 14,000 alumni worldwide, Minnesota Law is making a profound impact in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 70 countries.
After graduation, you will become part of a network of alumni already working in large coastal law firms, global corporations, international NGOs, state and federal courts, government agencies, and more. The valuable connections you make in law school help you gain leverage throughout your career as a lifelong member of this vibrant community of Minnesota Law graduates.
Alumni are invited to annual regional alumni receptions in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York, and other cities. Special alumni events, such as our annual Fall Social, alumni-sponsored CLEs, and class reunions, help you remain connected throughout your career.
“I spent a lot of time trying to find the right law school fit for me. Minnesota just checked all the boxes: located in a big city, top rankings, national reach, Big 10 conference, professional sports teams, Fortune 500 businesses, and lastly genuinely good people who cared about your future, from professors to career counselors. I would not have landed my dream job in the NFL without going to Minnesota Law.
My internship with the Minnesota Vikings was the best thing that could have happened for my career. The connections I made, along with the work experience I got, helped me land my job with the Buccaners.”
Tampa Bay, FL
REBECCA CASSLER ’16
“A big reason I picked Minnesota Law was because of its location in a city and its proximity to several major professional sports teams.”
Seattle, WA
VEENA TRIPATHI ’19 Associate Corporate Counsel, Amazon Web Services Chicago, IL
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Our Admissions Committee looks forward to reviewing your application and conducting a holistic review of the materials you submit. We consider many factors in our decision, such as student engagement and leadership, professional experience, writing ability, community service, academic achievements, and references.
For more details on the application process at Minnesota Law, please visit LAW.UMN.EDU/JDADMISSIONS
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All statistics herein are correct as of September 1, 2024. Visit our website to review the ABA required disclosures.
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Minnesota Law has nonresident and resident (reciprocity) tuition rates. Students from Wisconsin and Manitoba qualify for resident tuition.
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Merit scholarships are awarded to highly qualified candidates at the time of admission and range from $5,000 to full tuition. No separate application is required.
Summer funding and/or fellowships are available to students through the Human Rights Center Fellowship, Robina Public Interest Scholars Program, and the Career Center.
Many student paid positions exist at the Law School for law students, including research assistant, structured study group leader, library assistant, and orientation leader.
Travel reimbursement funds are available for students to attend 20+ national diversity, practice area, and law school-hosted job fairs.
Early decision (binding) December 31
Priority consideration for scholarship February 1
Final day to submit
• Completed application with $60 fee
• Personal statement
• Resume
• Optional supplemental statement
. June 1
• Completed CAS report (includes LSAT, transcripts, one letter of recommendation)
• Optional video interview (details provided after application is submitted)
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