Master of Legal Studies | Online

Earn Your Master of Legal Studies (MLS) From a Top-Ranked Law School

Designed for nonlawyers, our program offers six in-depth specializations: general MLS, business, health care compliance, technology, cybersecurity, or U.S. legislation.

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Level Up Your Career

Four Start Dates

January, April, July, October

12 Months

Minimum program duration

No GRE/LSAT

GRE and LSAT scores not required

US$15,000

Guaranteed scholarship for enrolled students

Career Pathways

With an MLS, you will be able to broaden your leadership potential and open the door to new career advancement opportunities. You will cultivate a solid foundation of knowledge in the U.S. legal system allowing you to better perform your job and make a difference in your community.

Potential Industries for AU MLS Graduates

Paralegal

Health Care Compliance

Software Engineering

Develop Core Legal Skills to Advance Your Career

The online MLS is designed for professionals who have law-related responsibilities and understand the law’s important influence on both your daily job functions and your community at large.

Understand fundamental legal concepts

Effectively solve legal questions and challenges

Enhance your credibility

Participate in collaborative immersion experiences

Network in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.

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Meet Your Instructors

Our faculty members are experienced legal practitioners who have spent their careers examining how the law intersects with different industries and how it can be used to make a positive impact on society.

Michael Carroll

Professor of Law, Director of Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Michael W. Carroll is a professor of law and the director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2009–present). He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Professor Carroll’s research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. His research includes projects about the social costs imposed by one-size-fits-all intellectual property rights and about the history of copyright in music.

Lindsay Wiley

Professor of Law, Director of Health Law and Policy Program

Lindsay F. Wiley teaches torts, health law, and public health law. Her research focuses on access to health care and healthy living conditions in the U.S. and globally. She is the author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (with Lawrence O. Gostin). Prior to joining the faculty at AUWCL, Professor Wiley was the Global Health Law Program director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

Susan Carle

Professor of Law

Professor Susan D. Carle teaches and writes about civil rights legal history, employment discrimination, labor and employment law, legal ethics, and the history and sociology of the legal profession. She is the author of Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880–1915, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2014, she received the Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Award for “the author of the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.”

Join Our ABA-Accredited Program

The Washington College of Law is approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) through ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, a specialized accrediting agency recognized by the US Department of Education.

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