Table of U.S. Law School Mission Statements, 2019 & 2021

Abstract

This Table continues a data-sharing effort begun by Scharf and Merton in 2016. At that time, Scharf and Merton collected all available mission statements for U.S. law schools, and made their data publicly available on the University of Massachusetts website; we are following in their footsteps by sharing the result of our efforts, undertaken in 2019 and 2021, on SSRN and the American Bar Foundation webpage. This is part of a larger project on law school education funded by the American Bar Foundation and directed by Elizabeth Mertz.

Keywords: law schools; educational mission; legal education; values