Earn your LLM at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado.

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Colorado Law offers specialized LLMs with the following concentrations:

  • Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law (#7 in Environmental Law per US News and World Report)
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Law
  • Intellectual Property, Technology, and Telecommunications Law, and
  • U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers (General and/or Bar Track LLM)

Colorado Law's LLM degree program is global in scope and is for talentedlawyers from diverse backgrounds and countries.

The LLM program fully immerses students in Colorado Law and offers inclusive access to programming, courses/modules, and the greater University of Colorado Boulder campus; our JD and LLM students learn side by side and from each other. We recognize that all LLM studentshave unique and diverse backgroundsand experiences that can enrich our community of scholars and students and help to advance Colorado Law’s intellectual leadership in the world.

LLM program course options are diverse, and each LLM studenthas the ability to design a program of study suited to his or her academic and professional interests. While students complete most courses at the law school, they also have the opportunity to complement their legal studies with graduate-level courses in other departments within the greater University of Colorado Boulder campus.

As an LLM student, you will arrive on our Boulder campus, which features nationally recognized graduate programs in fields such as business, engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences, in addition to law, all of which welcome graduate students from around the world.

  • Boulder is ranked the #2Best Place to Live for Quality of Life in the US by U.S. News & World Report (2024).
  • Boulder is ranked the #1 happiest city in the US by National Geographic (2017).
  • Colorado has the #4state economy per U.S. News & World Report(2023).
  • CU Boulder has a global rank of57by Academic Ranking of World Universities (2023).