Mission
John F. Kennedy University School of Law
OUR MISSION
The School of Law’s mission is to provide a challenging and comprehensive legal education in a supportive learning environment to a nontraditional and diverse community of learners dedicated to the professional, ethical practice of law and the pursuit of social justice.
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Our academic program is intellectually challenging and personally demanding, requiring students to balance their community, employment and family commitments with their educational goals.
Our academic program provides students a balanced substantive and practical legal education, focuses on building the skills and competencies necessary to gain admission to the practice of law and to meet the rigorous professional demands of law practice in a compassionate and thoughtful manner.
Our academic program encourages student participation and collaboration, access and mutual understanding, and employs a variety of teaching methods to promote a more productive learning environment.
Our students have responsibilities or other barriers to the study of law in a traditional, full-time program.
We admit and retain students from varied educational, professional and cultural backgrounds, whose life experiences contribute to the quality of the educational program and will enhance their ability as practitioners to respond to the human considerations and values at the heart of all legal issues.
Our students and graduates have a strong interest in community service, in promoting social justice and in participating in the legal process in creative and productive ways beyond traditional adversarial models.
Our graduates are highly competent and responsible legal professionals who value their clients, who counsel them toward fair, just and creative resolutions of their conflicts and who are aware that the law should not be used as a tool to promote individual greed, unfair results or abuse of the legal system.