A law degree from Cardozo gives you an edge in a range of fields. Our 17,000+ alumni work throughout the United States and internationally. Our faculty are leaders in their fields who are dedicated to their students. Our administrators care deeply about your experience and your unique path to success. We are proud of our students, and we are continuously building on Cardozo's successes to enhance our community.

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law provides an exciting, challenging, and rigorous education, and is simultaneously home to an engaged, enthusiastic, and collaborative student body. At Cardozo, you will study with professors who are prolific, innovators in their fields, committed to teaching and committed to their students. Our faculty will guide you through a challenging curriculum as you learn to think critically and prepare for the legal profession.

Cardozo Law attracts a student body with outstanding academic ability and intellectual curiosity who will bring a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to the classroom and the legal profession.

Our program in Intellectual Property and Information Law is one of the best in the country, with offerings including the Cardozo Data Law Initiative; the Patent Diversity Clinic; The Filmmakers Legal Clinic; the Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic; and the FAME Center for fashion, art, media and entertainment law. Criminal law offerings include the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, The Freedom Clinic at the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, the Criminal Defense Clinic, and others. We are a leader in dispute mediation. Our human-rights program includes the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Atrocity Prevention Clinic. Clinics and internships in Manhattan span from the United Nations to Wall Street, the D.A.'s office to the courts, and from giant media, fashion and entertainment companies to tech startups. You'll find your world within our community.