Choose Widener Law Commonwealth
We are a close-knit community offering you an exceptional law school experience that is personal, practical, and professional. Read below to discover more about the Widener Law Commonwealth experience.
Your Future Starts Here
Strategic Location
Our location in the capital of Pennsylvania means access to government and is a wonderful place for students interested in politics, public service, or government.
Practical Learning Opportunities
Our students take part in a variety of clinical opportunities, externships, internships, the public interest initiative, and other practical learning opportunities.
Accessible Faculty
Our professors are widely respected legal scholars and dedicated teachers. It’s a rare and powerful combination. Faculty have strong connections within the legal community and are happy to help mentor students.
Diverse Community
We are made stronger by our active commitment to include people of every ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, and economic background. Additionally, we aim to nurture a campus-wide culture of respect for veterans.
Building Your Career
The Career Development Office offers individual counseling, workshops, events, job fairs, and useful tips on a range of topics to help you build your career while in law school.
Signature Programs: Find Your Passion
Law and Government Institute
Why simply uphold the law when you can form, influence, and define new, wide-reaching legislation? Widener Law Commonwealth’s Law and Government Institute prepares the next generation of lawyers and helps you launch your career before you’ve finished your degree. The Law and Government Institute focuses on an important area of legal practice that offers an array of career opportunities: the complex intersection of legislation, regulation, policy, and the law.
Environmental Law and Sustainability Center
The Environmental Law and Sustainability Center explores the ways that the law can be used to address challenges including climate change, environmental rights, public health, biodiversity, and the protection of the land, air, and water for future generations. Our location in the state capital makes it an influential place for the development and implementation of environmental laws and policies.
Business Advising Program
Roughly one-half of U.S. workers are employed by business enterprises that have fewer than 500 employees. About one-fifth of U.S workers work for companies with fewer than 20 employees. The Business Advising Program equips students to advise these small and midsize businesses that drive the U.S. economy as well as entrepreneurs starting business enterprises.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
"I never dreamed that I would serve two presidents, the U.S. Navy, two governors and the Pennsylvania Senate and be the first woman in Pennsylvania to serve as its secretary-parliamentarian.”
Megan Martin ’94
“Graduating from WLC helped to advance my career with promotions and new opportunities. My legal education helped to sharpen the analytical skills I now use in assessing many sides of an issue."
Robert Torres ’93
Explore Campus
Located in Pennsylvania's capital, our campus is situated on more than 20 beautifully manicured acres nestled in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, that is easy driving distance to major metropolitan cities of: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York. Explore our beautiful campus by watching our virtual campus tour or scheduling to visit us in person.