Notre Dame Law School

    Notre Dame Law School, the oldest Roman Catholic law school in the United States, was founded in 1869 as the nation's third law school.  The Notre Dame program educates men and women to become lawyers of extraordinary professional competence who possess a partisanship for justice, an ability to respond to human need, and a compassion for their clients and colleagues.  Notre Dame Law School equips its students to practice law in every state and in several foreign nations.  The school raises and explores the moral and religious questions presented by the law.  The learning program is geared to skill and service.  Thus, the school is committed to small classes, especially in the second and third years, and emphasizes student participation.

    In order to further its goal of creating lawyers who are both competent and compassionate, Notre Dame Law School is relatively small.  The Admissions Committee makes its decisions based on a concept of the "whole person."  The Law School offers several joint degree programs, including M.B.A./J.D. and M. Div./J.D.  Notre Dame Law School is the only law school in the United States that offers study abroad for credit on both a summer and year-round basis.  Instruction is given in Notre Dame's own London Law Centre under both American and English professors.  Notre Dame Law School serves as the headquarters for The Journal of College and University Law.  The Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Institute for International Peach Studies, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government all enrich the Notre Dame Law School experience.

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