Law School Facts

For 150 years, the University of Michigan’s Law School has offered its students one of the world’s finest legal educations in a setting of stunning physical beauty. Among Michigan Law’s 20,000+ alumni can be found leaders in law, business, and public service in countries across the globe.

So what explains the Michigan difference? While students certainly gain access to a collegial community of scholars who work at the top of their fields, they also come into contact with each other – with a diverse body of talented students whose cooperative spirit helps bring out the best in faculty and student alike.

Browsing the rich variety of events and news clips offers a glimpse into a dynamic intellectual world.

• Evan Caminker is the 16th and current Dean of the Law School.



• Michigan's Law Quadrangle is the finest living/learning environment in the world of legal education.



• Michigan has 74 full-time faculty members: 55 tenured and tenure track and 19 clinical and legal practice.
  
  
• The Princeton Review ranked Michigan #1 for best career prospects.
  
  
• The University of Michigan Law School is an international center for interdisciplinary legal scholarship and teaching.



• Michigan is among the top law schools in placing the largest percentage of graduates in the most prestigious national law firms.



• Michigan Law class of 2007 (the most recent information available) has a 99.54 percent employment rate.
   
• Michigan ranks in the top 5 for the number of alumni teaching in U.S. law schools, and in the top 3 for tenure- and tenure-track positions.



• Michigan's Law Library has one of the world's most comprehensive collections of foreign, comparative, and international law materials.



• At Michigan, legal writing is taught by 9 full-time legal practice professors, not adjuncts or students.



• Michigan Law Library's comprehensive collection and superb services support research on any topic in any jurisdiction.



• With over 988,000 volumes, the Law Library has one of the world's premier collections and is staffed by experts in legal librarianship.
  
  
• Michigan offers 14 different dual-degree programs, or students can design their own.



• Michigan has clinics in trial and appellate litigation, child advocacy, community development, mediation, environmental law, and poverty law.



• Michigan has the most progressive Debt Management Program in the country.



• Michigan is the world's center for the study of refugee and asylum law.



• Michigan has externships in South Africa, Geneva, and human rights organizations worldwide.



• On average, 1 or 2 Michigan Law School graduates clerk with the U.S. Supreme Court every year; 12 have done so in the last decade, for 6 different justices.



• Michigan is 1 of the top 3 of our peer law schools in the percentage of graduates taking their first job in public interest (judicial Clerkship, public interest, and government).



• Michigan students come from 257 undergraduate institutions and about 78% of students are from other states.



• There are 1,151 J.D. Students enrolled at the Law School.



• The Law School wireless network allows students internet connections within Hutchins Hall, Legal Research, the library, the Law Quadrangle, and beyond.
  
  
• Michigan has 6 student-edited journals and more than 50 student organizations.



• Michigan Law has over 20,000 graduates worldwide.



• Ann Arbor is considered among the best places in the United States to live, work, raise children, and acquire an education.



• Restaurants, clubs, coffee shops, bookstores, shopping, and athletic facilities are within a few blocks of the Law Quadrangle.



• The variety of workshops, symposia, and student activities reflects the Law School's strong institutional interest in global affairs.



• Half of our students take advantage of one of Michigan Law's many established clinical offerings.