Michigan Law is among the top five institutions supplying law faculty in the United States and abroad, and we have a group of faculty dedicated to advising those seeking academic careers. Today more than ever, candidates for teaching positions are judged on their ability to make important contributions to legal scholarship. Michigan Law provides numerous opportunities for you to fine-tune this ability through close interaction with your professors, mastering the relevant literature, extensive writing, and immersing yourself in the network of intellectuals working in your fields of interest.
Through the Student Research Roundtable, students present original research to each other and to their professor-advisers. They learn to discuss and defend their ideas and to engage with and constructively critique the work of others. In addition, Michigan Law is home to one of the most robust and prestigious communities of law journals in the world, covering topics that include international law, race and the law, and legal reform. Journal membership enables students to become published authors before they graduate and provides them with early exposure to the fundamentals of legal scholarship.
Michigan Law changes those of us who are fortunate enough to spend time here; it is a place that inspires victors who go into the world and do great things. Michigan Law is committed to providing a legal education that is unequaled and to maintaining the elite reputational value of our institution. We are dedicated to training great lawyers and leaders to advance the rule of law worldwide, advocate for the dispossessed, ensure the success of complex transactions, and provide the counsel necessary for clients who are innovators in many realms. Michigan Law is committed to producing exceptional 21st-century lawyers.
