Institutes and Journals

Ten research institutes and six scholarly journals greatly enrich the Law School’s intellectual life and offer students unique research, employment and legal writing opportunities.

The Law School’s research institutes, founded by faculty and housed in Mondale Hall, make important contributions to legal scholarship and public policy research on a broad array of topics, from race and poverty to law and economics to human rights.

The Law School's Program in Law and History, a research endeavor established in 2007, joins students with scholars from around the world in the mission of exploring law in a historical context, fostering research and teaching across all periods of legal history.

Students can satisfy legal writing requirements and gain valuable experience by participating in a journal. The University of Minnesota Law School offers a unique combination of four student-edited and two faculty-edited scholarly journals.