Bowen Offers the Only Part-Time Program in Arkansas
The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law is dedicated to providing quality legal education to non-traditional students, working adults, and others whose best chance of attending law school is a part-time evening program. The program attracts the highest quality students who have an undeniable tenacity to constantly exceed expectations and become industry leaders.
Bowen offers the only part-time law program in Arkansas. The faculty and curriculum for the part-time and full-time program are the same, however, the part-time program is designed to allow students to go to law school in the evening and complete the J.D. degree over four academic years.
The program is designed to give all students the same opportunities to participate in the Bowen community and excel academically and professionally. View the part-time curriculum.
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Part-time students do not have any work restrictions like full-time students and can reduce or eliminate debt by working while in law school. Part-time students have the unique advantage of participating in Bowen’s one-of-a-kind Part-Time Student Practicum program which provides students with experiential learning opportunities with judges and prosecutors.
Classes in the part-time evening program meet Monday through Thursday evenings from approximately 5:45 to 9:25 p.m. Class schedules can be found in Bowen’s Academic Catalog.
During your first year of law school, part-time students are required to take 10 credit hours a semester.
A sample, first-year, part-time class schedule is provided below:
Monday
5:45 – 7:15 Contracts
7:25 – 8:55 Research, Writing, & Analysis
Tuesday
5:45 – 7:45 Torts
Wednesday
5:45 – 7:15 Research, Writing, & Analysis
7:25 – 8:55 Contracts
Thursday
5:45-6:45 Student Success Teams/Professionalism and the Work of Lawyers
6:55 – 8:55 Torts
