- This article is about the school in Columbia. For the school in Kansas City see University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
University of Missouri School of Law (Mizzou Law or MU Law) is the law school of the
University of Missouri, a
state university in the
U.S. State of
Missouri. It is located on the university's main campus in
Columbia, forty minutes from the
Missouri State Capitol and
Supreme Court in
Jefferson City. The school was founded in 1872 by the Curators of the University of Missouri, making it one of the oldest law schools west of the Mississippi River. Its alumni include governors, legislators, judges, attorneys general, and law professors across the country. According to Mizzou Law's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 61.1% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
