[5] It is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and offers full and part-time legal education for its Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Mark C. Gordon served as the founding dean of Mitchell Hamline before stepping down in 2019.
[14] Mitchell Hamline's Health Law Institute offers specialized courses and experiential learning.
[16] In the early 2000s the American Bar Association's Task Force on the Future of Legal Education drafted a recommendation that law schools be permitted to experiment and innovate.
[20] The law library on campus is named in honor of Warren E. Burger, the fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States, who graduated from one of the school's predecessor institutions, St. Paul College of Law.