University of Iowa College of Law (14)

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University of Iowa College of Law

276 Boyd Law Building, Melrose at Byington Streets
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 800.553.IOWA, ext. 9095; 319.335.9095;

Fax: 319.335.9019

E-mail : law-admissions@uiowa.edu
Website : www.law.uiowa.edu

Introduction

The University of Iowa College of Law, founded in 1865,
is the oldest law school in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River. Iowa enjoys a top national reputation and its faculty is renowned for its outstanding scholarship and teaching.
The college is located in Iowa City, a cosmopolitan college town that is home to a dynamic teaching and research university and approximately 60,000 people. Students from all 50 states and roughly 100 countries attend the university.
Iowa City offers a rich cultural life, Big Ten athletic events, and the world-famous IowaWriter'sWorkshop.
The Boyd Law Building’s central campus location on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River provides a professional enclave well suited to the college's intensive style of education and easy access to the academic, cultural, social, and recreational resources of a major research university.

Curriculum

Iowa's greatest academic strengths lie in its program - wide recognition of students as individual learners, its continuous emphasis on writing skills, its international and comparative orientation, and its longstanding commitment to diversity.
Iowa is a leader among the nation's law schools in the development of a modern curriculum in which individual instruction in basic lawyering skills is integrated with the exploration of conceptual and institutional issues central to the legal process. The centerpiece of this progressive curriculum is an ambitious writing program in which
faculty-supervised writing opportunities are provided individually or in small classes in every semester of a student's educational program.

Iowa Law Library

The Iowa law library is one of the major repositories of legal materials in the United States. According to the latest annual law school data report published by the ABA, Iowa's collection currently is first among all public U.S. law school libraries in the number of volumes and volume equivalents. Westlaw/Dialog and LexisNexis are available for training and research activities through 64 public work stations and over 400 data ports located in student study carrels.

Special Programs

Iowa's unique Writing Resource Center is dedicated to furthering the college's aim of strengthening law students’ command of the writing skills central to the study and practice of law. It serves as an extension of the classroom and supplements the college's small-section writing program and upper-level writing requirements.
The Academic Achievement Program (AAP) helps students achieve their full academic potential as they move from successful undergraduate careers to face the new challenges of law study. AAP presents a variety of programs, including a first-semester lecture series for new students. Individual study-skills counseling is also
available for all students.

Legal Clinic

The Clinical Law Program gives students opportunities
to gain experience in many different areas of substantive
law, including civil rights, disability rights, employment
law, immigration, criminal defense, consumer law,
domestic violence, nonprofit organizations, and bankruptcy.
Through the representation of real clients,
students are able to develop and hone a diverse complement
of lawyering skills from interviewing, counseling,
and drafting court papers to trial practice, appellate
advocacy, legislative lobbying, and policy development.

International Law

Iowa offers one of the nation's strongest programs for the
study of international and comparative law. Over 40 percent
of the faculty regularly teach or conduct research on international and comparative law subjects. Iowa offers three study-abroad programs. Iowa is the stateside home of the London Law Consortium through which seven U.S. law schools conduct a study-abroad program for a spring semester in London. The Iowa/Bordeaux Summer Program offers one month of intensive coursework in Arcachon, France. Students also have the opportunity to participate in an exchange program with Bucerius Law School in Germany. In addition, students may receive credit for participating in other study-abroad programs offered by ABA-approved law schools.

Accelerated/Summer Program

Iowa offers two starting dates for entering students: May and August. These are separate applicant pools.
Admission to the May entering class does not guarantee admission to the fall, or vice versa. Students who elect to enter law school in the fall also may attend summer school at any point during their academic career.
Students entering in May complete nearly a full semester of work in the first summer term, which consists of 2 five-and-a-half week sessions. AMay entrant who completes at least one additional summer session, (five-and-a-half weeks) in the following two years may graduate in two-and-a-half years. Thus, a student who
begins law school in May 2004 may graduate in December of 2006.

Admission

Iowa strives to enroll a student body that reflects the academic
quality and diversity expected of a leading national law school. The college's numbers-plus policy, which looks beyond numerical indicators, utilizes a full file review to eval‎uate an applicant's potential contribution to enhancing classroom discussion through consideration of factors such as maturity, work experience, ability to overcome adversity, and cultural background.

Student Activities

Alianza (formerly known as the Chicano Hispanic Association of Legal Education); American Constitution Society; Amnesty International; Asian American Law Students Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Black Law Students Association; Client
Counseling; Environmental Law Society; Equal Justice Foundation; Federalist Society; Intellectual Property Law Society; Iowa Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice; Iowa Law Review; Iowa Society of International Law and Affairs; Iowa Student Bar Association; Journal of Corporation Law; Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems; Moot Court; Native American Law Students Association;
National Lawyers Guild; Order of the Coif; Organization for Women Law Students and Staff; the Outlaws (formerly known as the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association); People Accompanying Law Students (PALS); Parents/Partners Weekend; Phi Alpha Delta;
Pro Bono Society; Stephenson Competition; Supreme Court Day; Trial Advocacy; 21st Century Democrats; University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development; University of Iowa Student Libertarians.

Expenses and Financial Aid

All admitted students are automatically considered for merit scholarships and fellowships based on their academic achievement. A separate application is not required. The Law Opportunity Fellowship Program funds a limited number of three-year tuition grant and research assistant positions for members of traditionally underrepresented groups and others. Eligibility for
financial aid based on need is established by completion
of the FAFSA, available at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

Career Services

Each year the Career Services Office provides students with access to numerous job fairs, posts openings for over 2,500 employers interested in Iowa students, and hosts a substantial number of employers for its on-campus interview program. Over the past five years, more than 1,000 employers have visited the campus to recruit students for positions in private firms, corporations, and government
as well as for judicial clerkships. Additionally, over the past five years, we have had between 97 and 100 percent of our students employed within nine months of graduation. The Career Services Office strives to work with all students throughout their law school careers to help them seek and find summer employment as well as
permanent employment. Be it private practice, in-house corporate, government, or academics to name a few, our alumni excel in their legal professions.