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The college also welcomed a strong and diverse class of new Master of Legal Studies (MLS) students, admitting nearly 120. The vast majority of these students will be pursuing the degree online, while 18 will join us here in Tucson, on the main campus. Among the MLS class, 65% are women and 66% identify as diverse. Twenty-six members of the class hold prior graduate degrees. Twenty-two members of the fall MLS cohort and 15 from the summer cohort are participating in the Legal Paraprofessional (LP) concentration.
The JD class also is joined by 1,980 undergraduate students who are pursuing a BA in Law degree, the first undergraduate law program in the U.S.
In his remarks to the new class during JD orientation, Interim Dean Jason Kreag encouraged students to be brave, in law school and beyond. “So much of the law is about people with power exercising their discretion over people who have less power,” he said. “If this is the case, we want the people with power to at least be exposed to various perspectives. We want those exercising discretion to know all angles of an argument. We want them to hear the best arguments on both sides. This means that your perspective is important. Your voice is important.”
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