
School of Law
At ӰƵ , our students, faculty, staff and alumni influence everything from health law to international law to public policy—all while learning, teaching and practicing legal education rooted in real-world impact. Discover our latest news in legal scholarship, advocacy, experiential learning, community impact and so much more.

Hero Type
Image
Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
ӰƵ's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

Hero Type
Image
Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles

Hero Type
Image
Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
In the News
Recent News
April 27, 2013
Jaime Bouvier, assistant director of the academic and writing support program at the School of Law, recently published works and gave presentations around the world.
Her article, “The Symbolic Garden: An Intersection of the Food Movement and the First Amendment” will be published in the Maine Law R...
April 15, 2013
Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, recently had her paper, “Freedom of Contract in the Market for Professional,” selected for the Freedom of Contract colloquium. Along with the selection, she was awarded $5,000.
The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Boston Universi...
March 19, 2013
All members of the ӰƵ community are invited to attend a talk with Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, Friday, March 22.
Benza’s talk, titled “A View from the Death House,” will give an inside look at the complex issues surrounding capital punishment and executions....
March 15, 2013
By the time he was 16, Juscelino Colares knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. The only difference between Colares and many other teenagers with the same dreams? He actually started law school then.
Colares grew up in Brazil, where he started college at the age of 16. Law is an undergradua...
March 12, 2013
ӰƵ’s health law program leapt to fifth in the nation and pediatrics climbed to 14th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate and professional school rankings released Tuesday. Those gains, coupled with a seven-point jump, to 30th, for the Weatherhead School of Management’s Par...
March 01, 2013
For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career.
“Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said.
When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He took...