It is located on the university's main campus in Columbia, forty minutes from the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.
Its alumni include governors, legislators, judges, attorneys general, and law professors across the country.
[2] According to Mizzou Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 82 percent of the 2016 class obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
[6] The law school also has a historical bar passage rate around 90.8%, which is higher than the Missouri state average of 86%.
[7] The score is calculated from the mean and median of total law journal citations over the past five years to the work of tenured faculty members.
[10] Students may also apply up to 31 hours of legal coursework completed at another ABA-accredited law school.
The University of Missouri accepts credits earned from all ABA-approved law schools and study abroad programs.
After final exams in the spring semester are completed, packets are made available to all interested students.
Applicants must also edit the mock list of footnotes for errors, pursuant to the Bluebook method of citation.
Applicants must then return the entire packet, as well as a list identifying their preferred law journals.
Noted scholars and practitioners in the given area give a presentation, and then they write an article which the law review publishes later that year.
Published semi-annually, the Journal is considered the leading publication in alternative dispute resolution.
[citation needed] The Journal, like the Missouri Law Review, hosts annual symposia in the area of dispute resolution.
[30] According to Mizzou Law's official 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 82% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.