The University of Wisconsin Law School is ranked No. 2 in the nation in clinical opportunities in a study published by The National Jurist magazine in its September 2008 issue.

Law schools were ranked based on the number of available clinical positions per full-time student at each law school approved by the American Bar Association.

Leading the National Jurist rankings at No. 1 is Yale Law School. Wisconsin is tied with Drake University in the No. 2 position.

The article refers to a recent influential report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which critiques legal education in the United States and Canada, emphasizing the importance of clinical experiences in educating future lawyers. The Report draws substantially on the prize-winning new book by University of Wisconsin Law Professor Elizabeth Mertz, The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer," (Oxford University Press, 2007).

The UW Law School has one of the longest-established clinical programs in the United States. For more information, see

http://law.wisc.edu/academics/clinics/clinicaleducationskillstraining.html .

Submitted by on August 28, 2008

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