Law School Facts

(Last updated April 24, 2019)

For 150 years, the University of Michigan 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 more than 22,000 alumni are 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—a diverse body of talented students whose cooperative spirit helps bring out the best in faculty and students alike.

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

• Mark D. West is the 17th dean of the Law School.
• The Law Quadrangle is the finest living/learning environment in the world of legal education.
• Michigan Law has 82 full-time faculty members: 55 tenured and tenure-track and 27 clinical and legal practice. It has 57 part-time faculty members.
• The Princeton Review consistently ranks Michigan Law in the top three for best career prospects.
• Michigan Law is an international center for interdisciplinary legal scholarship and teaching.
• 98 percent of the Class of 2017 is employed or continuing its education.
• 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 nine 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 1,052,608 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. Students also can design their own programs.
• Michigan Law clinics provide criminal and civil litigation, appellate, and mediation opportunities in such areas as child welfare, entrepreneurial businesses, human trafficking, housing, domestic violence, international commerce, environmental protection, poverty law, tax law, and more.
• Michigan's Debt Management Program is one of the most progressive in the country.
• Michigan has externship programs in South Africa, Geneva, and India, and with human rights organizations worldwide.
• One or two Michigan Law graduates clerk with the U.S. Supreme Court every year; eight have done so in the last seven years.
• As of fall 2018, there are 1,014 JD students enrolled at the Law School.
• The Law School wireless network allows students Internet connections within Hutchins Hall, Legal Research, the Law Library, the Law Quadrangle, South Hall, and beyond.
• Michigan has eight student-edited journals and more than 50 student organizations.
• Michigan Law has 22,425 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.
• More than half of our students take advantage of one of Michigan Law's 16 established clinical offerings.

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