The College is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Membership requires an adequate teaching staff and law library, a sound educational program, and adherence to prescribed standards for admission and graduation of students. The primary function of the College of Law is the education of lawyers. The College recognizes the diverse roles that lawyers serve. Lawyers enter a variety of forms of law practice and pursue opportunities in business and public service.
Lawyers often serve in important private and public policy-making positions.
It is the goal of the College of Law to provide students with the knowledge and training necessary to meet this wide range of professional responsibilities. Attaining this goal requires that students secure a broad and basic knowledge of legal principles, understand the social and economic factors underlying these principles, and learn to judge the effectiveness of these principles in solving client and societal problems. Technical skills, incisive analytical abilities, and communication skills must be developed. Law students must also acquire a high sense of professional and public responsibility. Many of our courses are taught by the case method, using reported decisions of appellate courts as the principal materials for study.