About Carolina Law

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the nation's oldest, and clearly one of its most accomplished, public institutions. From the colonial period until the present day, graduates from the University's School of Law have played powerfully disproportionate roles in leading the state, the south and the nation.

The School of Law has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1928. For more information on the ABA accreditation of law schools, please contact:

American Bar Association
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
321 N. Clark Street, 21st Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 988-6738
http://www.abanet.org/legaled/

Our law faculty includes world-class scholars, award-winning teachers and noted practitioners. Carolina Law's student body is among the most highly credentialed and intellectually diverse in America. Our signature offerings in civil rights, banking, intellectual property, entrepreneurial and securities law, critical studies, bankruptcy, and constitutional inquiry are among the best to be found in the academy. And our expansive array of skills and capstone courses provides impressive links between theory and practice. Carolina is a remarkable place to study law.

It is also clear that this is one of the most exciting and energizing periods in our long and storied history. We enjoy a marvelous physical facility. Its open study spaces, high-technology classrooms, enlarged library capacities, clinical teaching venues, writing laboratories and national-class placement operations have served to lift the sights and spark the aspirations of the School of Law community.

Small classes and favorable faculty-student ratios have opened our halls to innovative and disparate educational opportunities. An impressive new series of externship and clinical programs -- combining academic rigor with essential professional practice -- has invigorated the second and third year learning experience. Our student-initiated pro bono efforts have achieved national distinction and tapped the highest values of lawyering.

Rigorous dual degree programs in business, public policy, planning, social work and public administration assure diverse methods of inquiry. And new foreign study, exchange and outreach efforts have worked to internationalize our curriculum.

Carolina Law's alumni network, as you might imagine, is one of the strongest to be found anywhere. Our graduates dominate the legal institutions of this state and occupy positions of leadership around the country and across the globe.

Finally, Carolina Law students are able to take full advantage of attending a great university in one of the most beloved communities in America. It is no surprise that Tar Heels always return to Chapel Hill

The UNC School of Law can boast both a remarkable past and an exciting future. We hope that you'll visit us.