Each year the College of Law sponsors an eight-week summer session, designed to introduce outstanding minority undergraduates from all campuses of the university to the study and practice of the law. Students spend four weeks on the UIUC campus studying common-law contracts, legal writing, and legal research.
Participants spend the final four weeks of the session as interns at a Chicago law firm.
Seventy percent of the undergraduates participating in the program have gone on to law school, attending such prestigious schools as Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, and Illinois. Several of those students have also obtained jobs with the firms they interned with as part of the Minority Access Program. O. Fred Harris Professor 209 Law Bldg.