About Us
Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan, is a nationally recognized public law school that provides legal education to a talented and diverse student body.
The Law School promotes excellence in teaching and scholarly research and provides service to the community, the bench and the bar.
The faculty, students and administrators of the Law School are dedicated to advancing professional values and skills and to fostering a supportive environment for study and work.
Faculty Mission Statement
The Law School Faculty adopted the following statement:
The study of law involves more than the mastery of legal doctrine and professional skills. It requires an understanding of law’s purposes, consequences, and effects. Questions of social policy and justice are, therefore, not extraneous to law but at its very heart. We may disagree about their meaning in any particular case, but—regardless of whether we are conservative, moderate, or liberal—we all agree that the values of justice and fairness lie at the core of the legal enterprise and, for that reason, are critical aspects of the study of law.
“Equal justice under law” is a defining commitment of our democratic society, our legal system, and our constitutional tradition. Tolerance of and respect for others despite differences of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristics of identity are fundamental for and indispensible to a democracy. They are, moreover, essential qualities for those who would enter the legal profession. Disrespect toward and disparagement of others on the basis of characteristics of identity is inconsistent with the ideals of the profession and with the qualities of character necessary to legal practice.
The Faculty calls on all members of the Law School community to rededicate themselves to these fundamental ideals in what they do, what they say, and how they comport themselves toward others.
ABA Accreditation
Wayne State University Law School has been a member in good standing of the American Bar Association since 1936 and of the American Association of Law Schools since 1946.
The Law School’s chapter of the Order of the Coif, the national honor society dedicated to the highest standards of legal scholarship, was chartered in 1984.
For questions about accreditation, contact:
American Bar Association
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312.988.6738
Fax: 312.988.5681
http://www.abanet.org/legaled/
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