The University of California's law schools are among the nation's most outstanding legal training grounds. Their distinguished faculty are recognized worldwide for their contributions to scholarship and legal reform in a broad spectrum of fields that affect our everyday life—from criminal and corporate law to employment and intellectual property issues to environmental and international policies.

UC's law schools offer an excellent interdisciplinary curriculum, specialized programs and a dynamic learning environment that fosters camaraderie and cooperation. Students receive comprehensive training in the fundamental objects of legal analysis—judicial decisions, statutes, administrative rules, and constitutions—as well as the social, political, economic and jurisprudential principles that underlie, inform and change the law.

The law schools' clinical programs also provide many opportunities for students to get first-hand experience working on real cases as part of their legal education. Students participate in a variety of projects that provide legal services directly to individual clients or involve close interaction with lawyers on large-scale cases or other legal matters. Whether they assist a victim of domestic violence, gain political asylum for a refugee, argue in a federal court, help an HIV-positive mother with her legal needs, or represent a child in a guardianship, most students describe their clinical experience as one of the most significant components of their legal education.

Berkeley School of Law
Davis School of Law
UCLA School of Law

Hastings College of the Law (affiliated with UC)

Regents approve law school for UC Irvine, first class in 2009

UC also acts as California's leading provider of practice aids and programs for lawyers through the Continuing Education of the Bar.