Learning Outcomes

To fulfill its Mission, Ave Maria School of Law is committed to ensuring that Ave Maria School of Law graduates have achieved competency in the following areas:

1. Knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law.
2. Professional skills of written and oral communication and advocacy using legal analysis, legal reasoning, and problem-solving.
3. Development of research skills including, ability to create and implement a research strategy to find applicable law relating to legal issues/facts.
4. Understanding and appreciation of ethical and professionalism responsibilities to clients and the legal system.
5. Understanding and appreciation of the moral foundations of the law in light of natural law philosophy; appreciation for the Catholic intellectual tradition and the compatibility of faith and reason; development of an appreciation for the role that the law can and should play in the promotion of justice within the community and society at large.