The University of Minnesota Law School is in Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located on the West Bank of the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus (the main campus of the system).
Founded in 1888, the Law School is consistently ranked in the top 20 law schools in the nation and has a reputation for turning out hard-working lawyers and public servants.
With approximately 870 students, the Law School maintains a 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
It produces a number of scholarly journals: Minnesota Law Review, Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Minnesota Intellectual Property Review, Constitutional Commentary, Crime and Justice, Minnesota Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, and Minnesota Journal of Law Science and Technology. The Law School also has several non-scholarly publications, the most consistent being the humorous newsletter The Bar Review Weekly.
The Law Library is the 8th largest in the country, with over 1,000,000 volumes. Of particular note is The Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center, which houses one of the top three collections of rare legal texts in the nation.
There are 16 legal education clinics, offering students the opporunity to handle real legal cases under supervision of teaching attorneys.
The most famous alumnus of the Law School is Vice President Walter F. Mondale ('56). The Law School's building was renamed Walter F. Mondale Hall in his honor in 2002 and the mascot of the Law School was officially changed to the "Fighting Mondale" (a noble caricature) in 2003.
Another famous alumnus is Greg Raymer ('92), the 2004 World Series of Poker Champion.
The Law School student body puts on its own full-length musical: written, performed, directed and produced by the all-student Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT). The event draws a thousand audience members each year and features cameos by distinguished alumni.
The school offers a Juris Doctor (J.D.), Master of Laws (LL.M.) and joint degrees with J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.A; J.D./M.A., J.D./M.S., J.D./Ph.D., J.D./M.D. J.D./M.P.P., J.D./M.P., J.D./M.B.T., J.D./M.U.R.P., and J.D./M.P.H.
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