The right environment produces the best lawyers.

With one of the lowest student-to-full-time-faculty ratios of any law school, we provide a personalized education that allows every student to achieve their best—no one gets lost in the crowd. Here, you can craft an education based on your interests. With classes and seminars in subjects as wide-ranging as adoption law to water law, we offer something for just about anyone’s passion.

We pride ourselves in our small classes, engaged teaching, and active learning style. Our accomplished faculty includes some of the nation’s leading legal scholars, who love to see their students thrive, inquire, and succeed. Within this setting, students here know and feel our core mission: To make sure that every student has the best opportunities possible to succeed.

A Climate of Experienced Professors

The expertise of our faculty is vast, and the course topics they teach are varied. Our faculty have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before Congress, and served as high-ranking government officials. They have written leading law textbooks, served as U.S. Supreme Court clerks, and write regulation and policy.

As practicing lawyers, our faculty have worked in nationally recognized law firms, public interest organizations, and actively engage in pro bono services.

As recognized experts, they regularly discuss law and policy on major media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and Fox News, and author opeds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and others.

For a full list of faculty and their areas of expertise, visit law.utah.edu/faculty.