Quinnipiac Law Student Life

Quinnipiac Law is strategically situated with other graduate programs on an integrated campus, creating an exceptional environment for advanced professional study.

Our beautiful North Haven Campus is intentionally designed with cutting-edge resources and facilities. It includes spaces built for collaboration as well as quiet, reflective study. It’s an oasis in one of the most powerful regions of legal and commercial activity in the country.

Throughout the region, you’ll find an array of world-class restaurants, museums and theaters — as well as places for active indoor and outdoor recreation. Long Island Sound is only a 15-minute drive — and Boston and New York City are both accessible within 2 hours.

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The Day One Mentoring program is an optional offering that pairs an admitted student with current students and a faculty member — from the summer prior to your first year at Quinnipiac.

Your mentors will offer guidance on everything related to first-year student life. The faculty member remains a trusted resource and mentor throughout the entire law school experience, along with the growing network of supportive connections that surround our students.

This support is a key part of what’s different here — and an important reason our graduates are so well prepared when they enter the job market.

In the 21st century, there are global implications to almost every area and specialty of law. To be effective, lawyers must develop empathy and cultural competence, while understanding diverse international perspectives.

Thanks to a unique array of programs, organizations and travel opportunities, the Quinnipiac School of Law has made global learning a key part of our students’ legal education.

• International Human Rights Law Society: Members have the opportunity to learn about laws impacting human rights in the United States and abroad alongside faculty members and other leading experts in the field. Past activities included experiential learning trips to such countries as Nicaragua and Guatemala, where students stayed with host families and exchanged legal ideas and initiatives with students and faculty from local law schools.
• Ireland Summer Program held at Trinity College in Dublin: This is an immersive international study abroad program that allows participants to experience Irish law, history and culture. It mixes classroom learning in such subjects as comparative counterterrorism law with opportunities to gain real-time perspective on Ireland’s justice system. These include trips to the country’s major legal institutions, including Oireachtas Éireann, the Irish Parliament.
• Travel opportunities: Law students may travel and attend international conferences at foreign law schools and courts and critically examine major human rights issues playing out on the world stage. Initiatives include a two-week human rights workshop and immersive learning experience through the University of Oxford in England. On a recent trip to Oxford and then to Lesvos, Greece, students interacted with academics, lawyers, NGO activists and peers from other nations to gain an on-the-ground view of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.