Hamline University School of Law

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Hamline University School of Law is a private law school located affiliated with Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, offering full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, as well as the Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree for international lawyers. It is accredited by the American Bar Association.

The School of Law was founded in 1972 as the Midwestern School of Law by a group of legal professionals. The school was then absorbed by Hamline University as its own School of Law, making Hamline one of the few smaller universities to support a full law school.

The School publishes three law journals. The Hamline Law Review is in the top 25% of the Most Cited Law Reviews[1]. The Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy provides a forum for discussions relating to public policy decisions of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches at all levels of government. The Journal of Law and Religion is also supported by the school; it is an international publication that explores issues of law, religion, and ethics.

US News & World Reports 2007 ranks the School of Law's dispute resolution program among the top three in the nation, rounded out by Pepperdine University (McConnell), University of Missouri–Columbia, Harvard Law School, and Ohio State University (Moritz); the general law school is placed in the fourth tier.

The School of Law fields student-run sports teams under the team name Res Ipsa, particularly in ice hockey, where it competes in community leagues, intramural competition, and inter-law school competition among the Minnesota-based law schools.