Launch your legal career at Iowa Law

Explore the breadth of the profession through service, writing, and on-the-job experience. Join a network of 11,000+ alumni who work and live across the country and world.


 

Earn your JD at Iowa

Explore graduate programs

Learn from faculty experts

The Writing Law School℠

Experience how Iowa Law's Writing Program stands apart and prepares graduates for success in the field.

Writing at Iowa Law

100 %

STUDENTS EMPLOYED OR ENROLLED IN GRADUATE SCHOOL WITHIN 10 MONTHS OF GRADUATION

Class of 2025

Students study by the windows in the UIowa Law Library.

Top 3

Best Return on Investment

American Bar Association Journal
Class of 2024

Three law walk downtown with coffee in their hands.

Best Value

Law school by
the National Jurist

2014 - Present

Clinical Professor Alison Guernsey looks over a students shoulder in clinic.

Ready to start?

At Iowa Law, we believe each applicant is unique. Learn more about the admissions process and timeline.

Admissions

The latest from Iowa Law

Iowa City Urban Downtown

Iowa Law student gains hands-on environmental law experience through Sierra Club summer internship

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
A photo of the Boyd Law Building look through green trees on sunny summer day.

Iowa Law professors named to endowed positions and fellowships

Monday, July 6, 2026
BLB

Darrow/Baldus College brings capital defense advocates to Iowa Law

Thursday, July 2, 2026
Farrell and Co-Panelists

Brian Farrell participates in ISBA panel on rural legal practice

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
An aerial view of the Iowa River with multiple bridges.

Iowa Law alum Siduri Beckman brings constitutional law to life through innovative mock trial program

Monday, June 22, 2026
Iowa River during summer with a blue sky and clouds and prairie grasses in view.

Iowa alum Hudson Kingston (10JD) returns to teach intersession course on FOIA and environmental law

Thursday, June 18, 2026
An aerial photo of the sun rising over Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower hovers over the city skyline.

Iowa Law's Paris, France Study Abroad Program celebrates 42nd year

Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds poses for a group photo behind her desk after signing a bill into law. She is joined in the photo by professor Josephine Gittler, senators Lynn Evans and Jesse Green, Representative Samantha Fett., and others.

Professor Gittler authors bill signed into law recognizing high school graduates with exceptional civics knowledge and understanding

Friday, June 5, 2026
Students walks past the bridge leading to the back entrance of BLB in the fall.

Rooted in Growth: Law Grad Eddie Ponce Honors Professor Lorie Reins-Schweer

Thursday, May 28, 2026
IOWA Magazine
Someone placing a book on a bookshelf in the Law Library.

Iowa Law Library receives new funding for project improvements

Wednesday, May 20, 2026
All News

Events

6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory promotional image

6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

Saturday, July 11, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Ashton Cross Country Course

What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out! 

Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 6th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...

Washington DC LSAC Law School Forum

Saturday, July 11, 2026 10:00am to 12:30pm
JW Marriott Washington, D.C.

Meet with University of College of Law Iowa admissions representatives at an event for prospective law students.

Law Staff Retreat promotional image

Law Staff Retreat

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 11:30am to 2:30pm
Tavern Blue
View more events

Faculty in the News

Jill Wieber Lens quoted in the Des Moines Register on Iowa’s new abortion medication law

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

César Rosado-Marzán elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Iowa Law professors named to endowed positions and fellowships

Monday, July 6, 2026

Darrow/Baldus College brings capital defense advocates to Iowa Law

Thursday, July 2, 2026

César Rosado-Marzán publishes new review in Jotwell for worklaw book chapter

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Shannon Roesler's article rated "highly recommended" by Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Brian Farrell participates in ISBA panel on rural legal practice

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Kate Melloy Goettel featured on IPR's River to River to discuss habeas corpus

Monday, June 29, 2026

Samantha Barbas among eight UI faculty selected for competitive internal grant

Thursday, June 18, 2026
Office of the Vice President for Research

Anya Prince works as co-Principal Investigator on four-year NIH-funded research project “Beyond the Medical: The ELSI of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits”

Monday, June 8, 2026
Faculty and Scholarship