UM Law School

Paul Kirgis, Dean of the Alexander Blewitt III School of Law has submitted his letter of resignation as of Thursday, October 7.

In recognition of ‘Juneteenth’ Montana’s Black Law Students Association and the Montana Innocence Project hosted a virtual panel on Thursday evening featuring several individuals who spoke about ‘how mass incarceration is a form of modern-day slavery’.

The Dean of the University of Montana’s Alexander Blewitt III School of Law received yet another national accolade late last week.

The Montana Law Review at the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law hosted the 2016 Browning Symposium Sexual Assault: Conflicts Between Campus and Courts Friday on the UM campus.

The Alexander Blewitt III School of Law at the University of Montana will be hosting the 2016 Browning Symposium this Friday, September 30, with the topic 'Sexual Assaults; Conflicts Between Campus and Courts.

A campus celebration to officially rename the University of Montana law school took place Friday afternoon in the law building’s Garlington,Lohn & Robinson Plaza, according to a UM news release.

University of North Carolina law professor Alfred Brophy recently did a study on law schools across the country and found that The University of Montana’s Alexander Blewett III School of Law was vastly underrated.

The Montana Board of Regents at their meeting in Kalispell on Friday, voted 5-0 to rename the University of Montana School of Law to the Alexander Blewett III School of Law.

The University of Montana Law School has received a $10 million dollar gift from the Blewett family of Great Falls, and the Board of Regents has been asked to allow the name to be changed to the Alexander Blewett III School of Law.

Subject to Board of Regents approval, the University of Montana School of Law will officially become the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana as a result of a $10 million donation from Alexander “Zander” and Andrea “Andy” Blewett of Great Falls.