UMass School of Law Points of Distinction Brochure

New Faculty

Roni Amit, Assistant Professor of Law

Prior position: Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law

“Above the Law: Securitization in South Africa’s Migration Management Regime” (book chapter), in Law and Migration in a Changing World (Marie-Claire Foblets and Jean-Yves Carlier, eds.) (2022).

“Reclaiming Refugee Rights as Human Rights” (Comment), 31 Pace International Law Review 557 (2019).

“(Dis)Placing the Law: Lessons from South Africa on Advancing US Asylum Rights,” 20 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 135 (2019).

BA, Tulane University; MA, George Washington University; PhD (Political Science), University of Washington; JD, New York University

• Courses: Immigration Law, Refugee and Asylum Law, Immigration Law Clinic

Faisal I. Chaudhry, Assistant Professor of Law

Prior position: Assistant Professor of Law and History, University of Dayton School of Law

A Historical Ontology of Law’s Rule: India, Empire, and the Globalization of Classical Legal Thought, 1757-C.1920 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Review: “Leila Neti, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination,” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (May 2022)

“Property as Rent ,” 94 St. John’s Law Review 363 (2021).

BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD (History), JD, Harvard University

• Courses: Property Law, Environmental Law, Law and Int’l Development

Jennifer Davis, Assistant Teaching Professor

Prior position: Professor of Legal Skills, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law

BA, University of Massachusetts Amherst; JD, Suffolk University

• Courses: Legal Skills I and II

Rebecca Moor, Assistant Teaching Professor

Prior position: Associate Director of Professional Development, Boston University School of Law

BA, JD, Columbia University; LLM, University of Nottingham School of Law

• Courses: Legal Skills I and II

Points of Distinction

Choose a law school that prepares you to make a difference .

Choose UMass Law

As the only public law school in Massachusetts, UMass Law is committed to providing an excellent, affordable, and accessible legal education that prepares you to practice in any field of law. Our many advantages include:

Affordable tuition: Our tuition is substantially lower than any ABA-accredited law school in MA.

Flexible programs: Offering full-time day and part-time day and evening/weekend programs. We also offer fast-track 3+3 degree programs as well as joint JD/MBA, JD/MPP, and JD/MSW degrees.

Greater diversity: With approximately 30% of our student body identifying as persons of color, UMass Law is among the most diverse law schools in New England. In addition, nearly half of the law school’s tenured faculty are women, representing one of the highest percentages among all ABA-accredited law schools nationwide.

Employment success: Our Class of 2022 has achieved a 90.5% employment rate, including 71.4% in “gold standard” full-time, long-term bar-required positions and 83.3% in full-time, long-term bar-required or JD-advantage positions. In addition, UMass Law ranks #1 among the 15 New England law schools (2022) for the percentage of graduates (32.1%) in public service (government and public interest) positions.*

Real world practice and internship opportunities: Participate in the real-world practice of law in our Business, Criminal, Human Rights, Immigration, or Tribal Law Clinics or one of a variety of public or private field placements in virtually any field of law.

Commended for practical training: UMass Law has ranked among the top law schools in the U.S. for practical training for three of the last four years by preLaw magazine and in 2023 ranks 2nd in MA and 3rd in New England.**

Ideal location: Our campus is on the beautiful SouthCoast of MA, with easy access to Providence, Boston, and Cape Cod, and without the high cost of city living.

Welcoming community: Join a supportive, collaborative, and diverse learning community that will support you throughout your legal education—from your first class to the bar exam and beyond.

Class size

Smaller class sizes engender a stronger sense of community and enable greater student-faculty interaction. One of the many advantages of being a student at UMass Law is easier accessibility to faculty who are able to provide more one-on-one attention.

**Source: https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx.

Why pay more?

UMass Law offers the lowest tuition of any ABA-accredited law school in MA while maintaining the smallest average first-year doctrinal course size.

UMass Law opened a lot of doors for me. I’ve had opportunities to work with professors and network. I got experience in classes, my clinic, and internship.”

Janay Davidson, JD ‘23

Public Defender at the Legal Aid Society in New York City