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An education that creates leaders with character

For more than 125 years, we’ve been developing advocates who lead by pairing compassion and perseverance with creativity and character — a combination that ensures problems are assessed with integrity and professionalism.

Inspiring change through collaboration

Knowing how to collaborate through difference is essential to building partnerships and coalitions that foster change at a state and local level, where change is happening. Shaped by a small and deeply personal education, we develop agents of progress and innovation.

An education that creates leaders with character

For more than 125 years, we’ve been developing advocates who lead by pairing compassion and perseverance with creativity and character — a combination that ensures problems are assessed with integrity and professionalism.

Inspiring change through collaboration

Knowing how to collaborate through difference is essential to building partnerships and coalitions that foster change at a state and local level, where change is happening. Shaped by a small and deeply personal education, we develop agents of progress and innovation.



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Our degree and certificate programs offer a curriculum that allows each student to design their education in a way that intentionally connects legal theory to professional practice.


Juris Doctor (JD)

Learn more about our Juris Doctor degree including dual degree and concurrent programs.

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International Programs

Learn more about our LLM, SJD, and Two-year JD program for international attorneys.

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Professional Programs

Learn more about our programs for professionals who need to navigate the law, not practice it.

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The Jurist Magazine

The 2022 issue of the Wake Forest Jurist is now online, and this year's theme is "Ideas to Action." Thought leadership essays from Wake Forest Law faculty experts are paired with alumni spotlight stories in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property, business and entrepreneurship, health law, and state and local law.

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The cover of the 2021 Jurist Magazine includes an abstract image hightlighting the feature story, Ideas in Action.

The Jurist Magazine

The 2022 issue of the Wake Forest Jurist is now online, and this year's theme is "Ideas to Action." Thought leadership essays from Wake Forest Law faculty experts are paired with alumni spotlight stories in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property, business and entrepreneurship, health law, and state and local law.

Read The Jurist »
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37th in the Nation

U.S. News once again ranks Wake Forest Law among the top law schools in the country.

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Hire from Wake Forest

Our graduates are ready to work. They are fully prepared to enter and succeed in today’s legal market.

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Cultivating Leadership and Character

With nearly $1 million from the Kern Family Foundation, Wake Forest Law is expanding courses and programming focused on leadership and character.

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Give Now

Your gift to the Wake Forest Fund for the School of Law helps us invest in students, faculty, and facilities.

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January 12 | 12:00 PM
Room 1101, Worrell
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January 19 | 5:00 PM
Commons
Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inn of Court
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January 21 | 10:00 AM
Room 1109, Worrell
Pro Bono Wills Project Intake Clinic
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Founded in 1834, Wake Forest University is a private university located in Winston-Salem, N.C., with more than 8,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Wake Forest as one of the top 30 National Universities for 24 consecutive years.
Wake Forest’s hometown, Winston-Salem, N.C., is a culturally vibrant city with a population of 246,000. The thriving downtown area has restaurants, shops, art galleries, museums, a minor-league baseball stadium, and greenways. It is also home to both county and federal courthouses.
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