MU School of Law Pride Points
National Presence
For the past seven years, the School of Law’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution has been ranked either first or second in the nation (with Harvard typically ranked third).
The School of Law’s Earl F. Nelson Lecture has been given by five United States Supreme Court justices, two presidents of the American Bar Association and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
MU School of Law graduates serve as governors of two states, in the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as both federal trial and appellate judges, at all levels of the Missouri judiciary, and in the Missouri Senate and House of Representatives.
Outstanding Students and Alumni
The entering credentials of this year’s law students placed them among the top 25 percent of students in the nation based upon their median LSAT scores.
The School of Law has alumni practicing in every county of Missouri, in 48 states and in 16 foreign countries.
Although MU has the smallest law school in the state, four of the last eight presidents of The Missouri Bar Association have been our alumni.
The finals of the School of Law’s Polsinelli Shughart Moot Court Competition are held each fall before judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri in Jefferson City, and in 2007 an MU student became the first law student ever to argue an actual case before that court.
According to a study done by the Missouri Board of Bar Examiners, in the period of 1998-2008, graduates of the School of Law passed the Missouri Bar Examination at the highest rate of any law school in the state.
20th Nationwide in Student Satisfaction
In a recent national survey of student satisfaction, MU Law students rated the School of Law 20th in the nation and first among Missouri law schools.
Four Clinical Programs
The School of Law offers four separate clinics, through which students represent victims of domestic violence; serve as student prosecutors in Boone County; act as mediators in local, state and federal disputes; and work in the Missouri General Assembly.
