LLM Program | University of Michigan Law School (2024)

Our flexible curriculum empowers you to select from nearly all of the Law School’s courses to design your own focus andexperience.

Our LLM program will give you unmatched access to world-renowned faculty. You can earn academic credit while pursuing independent research under the direct supervision of yourprofessors.

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Interdisciplinary Opportunities from Across theUniversity

By studying at one of the world’s leading public research institutions, you will have a wealth of interdisciplinary opportunities at your fingertips. We encourage you to take courses from across the University of Michigan’s multitude of other top-rankedprograms.

Taking Non-lawClasses

Mini-seminars Address Unique Topics in IntimateSettings

You’ll also have the option to participate in mini-seminars, which are small classes that typically meet in professors’ homes. Our mini-seminar topics have ranged from the explorations of the law behind book bans to the unique challenges facing women in the legal industry to technology trends that are redefining the practice of law. The only limit is our faculty’simaginations.

About ourMini-seminars

Problem Solving Initiative Classes Tackle Real-worldChallenges

In our innovative Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) courses, you’ll become part of a multidisciplinary team learning to address real-world challenges. Working with graduate students from other units on campus—such as business, engineering, public policy, and public health—our PSI students tackle issues related to autonomous vehicles, climate change, social media, human trafficking, and other societalconcerns.

About the Problem SolvingInitiative

Because each LLM student is carefully selected, the class is extremely bright, inquisitive, anddiverse.

With only a few dozen participants, our LLM students become friends with their classmates and receive individualized mentoring and support from faculty and staff. Our students develop meaningful connections that last long after their LLMyear.

Ask an LLMStudent

Students study and attend class with our 1,000 JD students, who come from nearly every US state and more than 15 countries.Outside the classroom, LLM students have the option to join more than 70 student organizations at MichiganLaw.

By learning and studying with JD students, our LLM students expand their social and professional networks and are fully integrated into life at the LawSchool.

Student Life andCommunity

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With an interdisciplinary mindset and a genuine love of teaching, our professors are outstanding scholars, practitioners, andmentors.

Our faculty have unparalleled expertise in a wide variety of legal areas. Many have lived, studied, or worked outside the United States, and they are fluent in more than a dozen languages. Our faculty are accessible and approachable, and they host seminars at their homes and invite students to grouplunches.

Our Faculty

Better Know aProfessor

Michigan Law has long been held in high esteem among the international legalcommunity.

In 1878, the first students from Japan earned law degrees from the University of Michigan, and the Law School granted its first LLM degrees in1890.

The Law Library became the first depository for European Union documents at an American university in 1957, and Ann Arbor is the birthplace of the American Society of Comparative Law.

We foster the development of international legal scholars and lawyers by providing our students opportunities to present research in the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program and participate in the Overseas-Trained LLM Student Interview Program in New York everywinter.

The University of Michigan fosters a global campus, as evidenced by the over 8,000 international students who enroll at the University every year. The University of Michigan consistently ranks among the top 15 universities in the United States in hosting internationalstudents.

Global Opportunities

Center for International and ComparativeLaw

Graduates join the ranks of more than 22,000 Michigan Law alumni around the globe, becoming lifelong members of the Law Schoolcommunity.

Our alumni’s expertise and experience span six continents, andthey:

• serve as members of the judiciary and government (international, federal, andlocal)
• teach and research at renowned lawschools
• advocate for public interest and non-governmentalorganizations
• practice at elite law firms andbusinesses

Students enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience in Ann Arbor, a small city that is widely regarded as one of the top places to live in thecountry.

With more than 400 restaurants, the largest stadium in the United States, more than 150 parks, a dozen museums, more than 90 miles of bike paths, the Huron River, and multiple theaters and performing arts venues, Ann Arbor has something to offereveryone.

The Law School is just steps away from downtown Ann Arbor, the center of the city. Within a 30-minute drive of Ann Arbor is the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, an international hub that offers direct flights to destinations around the country and theworld.

• Earn at least 24 credits. At least 18 of these credits must be earned in MichiganLaw School courses.
  
• Satisfy the constitutional law requirement. Successfully pass either Introduction to Constitutional Law and American Legal Process (Law 631, for LLM students only) or Introduction to Constitutional Law (Law 540, the JD required course).

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• Satisfy the research requirement. Successfully complete a qualifying seminar or course or earn two credits of Independent Research (Law 900).

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• We encourage students not only to consider courses in their area of legal interest, but also to take courses that expand the way they think about the law and legalproblems.
• Students should also consider the professor teaching the course. Many students select classes for the opportunity to engage with specific professors, not only for the course topic, but forthe excitement of their intellectual approach to legalstudies.

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