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About St. Mary’s Law

Our cutting-edge Law Success Program reflects our mission to equip future lawyers with the values to lead a more just world.

Our unique location in San Antonio, Texas, provides students with balmy weather, along with historic landmarks, world-class museums and extensive outdoor recreation opportunities.

We celebrate an annual Red Mass as the only Catholic law school in Texas. We welcome students of all faiths and uphold the Marianist tradition of hospitality, openness and the family spirit.

Highlights

Law students worked more than 13,000 pro bono hours in the 2021-2022 academic year.

Tuition about $12,000 less than average for private law schools

St. Mary’s Law Advocacy Program Top 11 in nation, according to ABA

World-Class Faculty and Facilities

Named a Best Value Private Law School by The National Jurist, the School of Law is a a state-of-the-art practice facility for advocacy programs and visiting courts that occasionally hear oral arguments on campus.

The St. Mary’s Law faculty includes nationally known subject-area experts, scholars and practitioners, some of whom have served as Fulbright Scholars as well as former United States Supreme Court and White House Clerks and Fellows.

The Sarita Kenedy East Law Library is the largest legal information center in San Antonio and the surrounding area with staff knowledgeable in legal research.

Top-Notch Clinical Programs

The Center for Legal and Social Justice is home to multiple clinical programs that offer students hands-on legal experience representing San Antonio’s indigent and disadvantaged citizens.

The clinical programs are the Civil Justice Consumer Protection and Family Law Clinics, the Criminal Justice Clinic and the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. Students are supervised by clinic faculty who are licensed attorneys to work with clients in need.

Top Advocacy Competitors

Year after year, St. Mary’s law students excel in regional and national moot court and mock trial competitions.

2021-2022 National Team Finalists:
National Trial League 2022 – National Champion
American Association of Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition 2022 – Regional Champion
National Trial Competition (TYLA/ACTL) 2022 – Regional Finalist
National Trial League 2021 – Finalist
Syracuse National Trial Competition 2021 – Finalist
Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition 2021 – State Champion

National Sports Law Negotiation Competition 2021 – 1st Runner Up

National FINRA Invitational 2021 – 2nd Negotiation, 5th Overall

The National Team Legacy of Champions:

American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition Federal Bar Association Thurgood A. Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition William W. Daniel National Invitational Mock Trial Competition National Black Law Students Association Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition

National Champions (2020, 2017, 2016)

Regional Champions (2019, 2018)

National Champions
(2018, 2016, 2015, 2014)

Finalists (2019, 2017)

Best Oral Advocate – Championship Round (2015)

Second Best Brief – Overall (2015)

National Champions (2015)

Regional Champions (2015)  Best Brief (2015)

Study Abroad

The School of Law is a member of the International Association of Law Schools and the International Academy of Comparative Law
(Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé).

The Institute on World Legal Programs in Innsbruck, Austria, offers world-renowned instructors, often including United States Supreme Court justices or prominent international jurists, during the intensive summer program. 

Since 1986, students from more than 130 American law schools and several European and Asian law schools have participated in the Institute, whose courses are conducted in English. One of the longest continuously operated summer law study programs offered by any American law school, the Institute continues in its commitment to offer a First-Class International Law Education in a World-Class Location.

Distinctive Law Journals

The St. Mary’s Law Journal has achieved a high level of distinction over the past three decades. The student-led operation strives to publish articles of significant scholarly merit and practical use.

St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics is the only law review on the topic in the nation.

The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice strives to give all minorities a voice through the publication of a legal journal on issues affecting minorities.

Heritage and Tradition

For 90 years, St. Mary’s has attracted brilliant scholars to teach students who grew to lead in their communities, the state and the nation. Established in 1927, the original School of Law was a part-time school that met at night in the courthouse.

Strong Alumni Network

More than 500 alumni have served in elected or judicial positions. Graduates of St. Mary’s University have become members of the United States Congress, governors and lieutenant governors nationwide, justices of the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, state legislators, members of the federal judiciary and leaders of some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms.

Want to Learn More?

Law School Admissions
St. Mary’s University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, Texas 78228-8601
210-436-3523
Fax: 210-431-4202
lawadmissions@stmarytx.edu

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