The law school requires an official score report from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The minimum score required by the law school is 600 for the paper-based test, 250 for the computer-based test, or 100 for the internet-based test. We do accept the International English Language Testing Score (IELTS) score in lieu of a TOEFL score. The minimum IELTS score we accept is 7.0. The extensive reading and writing requirements necessary to satisfactorily complete a U.S. graduate law program are rigorous. We do not expect all international students to be perfectly fluent in English; however, it is clear that students with serious language limitations will encounter great difficulty meeting these challenging academic requirements.

In some circumstances it is possible that your acceptance to the LL.M. program could be conditional, pending satisfactory completion of an approved, intensive course in English as a second language. More…