Our full-time faculty of 32 has been drawn from throughout the nation, and is a diverse group of individuals with outstanding educational and professional backgrounds. The first-year program provides every student with a rigorous substantive law experience through extensive work with a full-time faculty member in a small group setting of twenty-five students.

The student body at the College of Law brings to the study of law a rich variety of work, educational and cultural experiences. Our greatest assets are our people: our gifted faculty, staff and students make this law school very special.

Typically there are over ninety undergraduate and graduate institutions represented in a class of 150; about 30 percent of the students are students of color; about fifty percent are women; 15 to 25 percent are thirty or more years of age; 16-18 percent have graduate degrees; and students have significant accomplishments and public service involvements.

At Arizona we strive to offer our students an education of extraordinary quality at a modest tuition.

We invite you to explore our website further and to consider our outstanding programs.   We urge you to participate in one of our many outreach activities that we have for applicants, including General Information Sessions, the 2006 Spring Open House, Law Forums and many law days across the country.

Header Med As is the case in most law schools, the first year of law study at The University of Arizona includes the study of foundational areas of law upon which later study is built and entirely prescribed.  The heart of a student's first year at the College of Law is the Small Section Program. In the first semester of the first year, each student is assigned to a Small Section (approximately 25 to 30 students), typically in one of three substantive first year courses: Contracts, Torts or Civil Procedure.  This is combined with a practice lab in the same subject, which introduces students to some of the tasks of lawyering in context.  Other classes, usually classes of 50, 75 or 100, are formed by combining two or more small sections.  The required first-year courses are:

  Constitutional Law I (Law 606)
  Contracts (Law 600)
  Criminal Procedure (Law 602)
  Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure (Law 601a-601b)
  Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (Law 603h)
  Practice Labs (Law 603c, d and e )
  Property (Law 605)
  Torts (Law 604c-604d)

Required Second or Third Year CoursesAfter completion of the first year, the remaining curriculum is almost entirely elective, with only three remaining requirements: Evidence, a Legal Profession course, and the completion of the Substantial Paper Requirement.

  Evidence (Law 608)
  The Legal Profession (Law 609)
  Substantial Paper Seminar (Advanced Legal Writing Seminar) (Law 696n)

Header SmallThe remainder of the curriculum is wholly elective.  Students have the opportunity to choose from a wide selection of course offerings in a variety of subject matter areas.  Elective offerings change from year to year depending on a variety of factors including developments in the law, society, and the legal profession, as well as changes in the composition of the faculty and visiting faculty.  Below is a list of all elective offerings from fall 2004 through spring 2006 (anticipated).

  Accounting for Lawyers (Law 644a/697w)
  Accuracy in the Criminal Justice System (Law 656c)

  Administrative Law (Law 621)
  Advanced Legal Research (Law 689)

  Advanced Criminal Procedure: (Federal) Bail to Jail (Law 697i)