As the fourth-oldest public law school in America, The University of Mississippi School of Law has enjoyed a long history of excellence and innovation. Long before Christopher Columbus Langdell employed the case method for studying law at Harvard Law School, L.Q.C. Lamar, later an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court, introduced the case method at The University of Mississippi School of Law. The school continues that innovative approach today, offering an exceptional blend of doctrinal, theory and skills courses in a nurturing environment.

The law school also has a rich tradition of preparing not only lawyers who will enter into the public and private practice of law, but preparing leaders for service in our national government, our state government and in local communities around the state and around the country. And in terms of the cost in relation to the quality of legal education received, The University of Mississippi School of Law provides what we believe is the best value in American legal education.

The faculty represent one of the law school’s greatest assets. They are outstanding classroom teachers as well as prolific legal scholars, and they are very accessible to students. We attempt to follow the maxim of Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I say that the business of a law school is not sufficiently described when you merely say that it is to teach law, or to make lawyers. It is to teach law in the grand manner, and to make great lawyers. ”

Attending law school at The University of Mississippi is exciting, dynamic, rewarding and fun. Add to that the advantages of living in Oxford, one of the best small towns in America. Let us show you why Oxford’s most famous son, William Faulkner, and one of the law school’s most famous graduates, John Grisham, have had so much to say about the law and lawyers.

I invite you to come to Oxford and to The University of Mississippi. There is simply no better place for a law student to experience life, learn and grow.

Dean Samuel M. Davis

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