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High Standards In An Uncommon Setting
The University of Idaho College of Law is in its tenth decade of educating lawyers for careers in law, business, and public service. We are proud of our tradition of high standards in a collegial setting. As a relatively small school in a college community, we provide a close working relationship among faculty, staff, and students, as well as a friendly atmosphere and a strong sense of shared purpose.
Our faculty is composed of lawyers noted for their distinguished academic backgrounds and diverse practice experiences. Our academic program provides a solid foundation for any sort of legal career, as well as special depth in business and environmental law. We also provide outstanding clinic, trial practice, and lawyering skills opportunities.
The University of Idaho College of Law provides a unique opportunity for students to reach their highest potential by posing great challenges in a supportive setting. Our uncommon setting, only eight miles from Washington State University in Pullman, offers numerous cultural, academic, employment, research, athletic, and social opportunities. The combined student population of the two universities approaches 28,000 and the total population of the two cities is about 45,000. The fact that both Washington State University and the University of Idaho are major research universities will enrich your educational experience. Students may take a limited number of graduate-level classes at WSU and the UI for law school credit and there are unlimited opportunities to attend lectures, films, and performances. A free bus service operates between the two universities and a biking and walking path connecting Moscow and Pullman has been completed.
The Place
The University of Idaho is located in Moscow, a diverse community of 21,000 located on the eastern edge of the Palouse, a native grassland largely devoted to dryland wheat farming. To the east, the countryside rises to timbered ridges and mountains, marking the beginning of a vast continuous forest extending into Montana. Recreational opportunities abound in the Northwest and especially northern Idaho. Nearby rivers and mountains offer hiking, white-water rafting, mountain biking, skiing, snow-boarding, hunting, and fishing adventures.Many biking and hiking paths traverse the area. Travel southeast and you soon enter America's largest contiguous wilderness area in the lower forty-eight states, the Selway-Bitterroot and the Frank Church River of No Return wilderness areas. The Arts: Dance, theater, concerts, and galleries are a regular feature of our university community.
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A Paradise Called the Palouse
Ties between the community and the university are strong and mutually supportive. On Saturdays during six months of the year, Moscow's Farmers' Market is alive with music, arts and crafts booths, and vegetable and fruit vendors from the Inland Northwest. University of Idaho hosted Powwow is held during the year. In May, Moscow hosts the Renaissance Fair. Spend summer evenings at outdoor concerts at Rendezvous in the Park or attend the many plays and concerts on the Palouse. The city of Pullman hosts the annual Lentil Festival every August.
The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, a world-class event in the jazz community, is held the third week of February. The festival, called by The Los Angeles Times "the number one jazz festival in the world," recently celebrated its thirty-third anniversary and has showcased such jazz legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Lou Rawls, Branford Marsalis, and Lionel himself, "the King of the Vibes."
The festival is followed by Moscow's Mardi Gras dance and parade, in which law students regularly perform in the much-loved but never imitated "brief case brigade drill."
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