Overview

The Program offered by University of Hawaii at Manoa will help to enhance your legal English skills and understanding of American legal culture, while providing you with the opportunity to interact daily with excellent American law students and faculty in a warm and friendly environment.

Law students who decide to concentrate their study in one of our areas of excellence may earn a separate certificate in addition to their diploma.

Program Highlights:

Specializations in Business, International,Environmental Law, and more.

Opportunity to Transfer to the Juris Doctorate Program

Networking with Top Legal and Business Leaders

Personalized Attention for LLM Students

Hawai‘i’s Strategic Location to Pacific Rim Countries

Hawai‘i’s Culture, Recreation & Beauty

The William S. Richardson School of Law

The School of Law is particularly strong in environmental law as well as Pacific-Asian legal studies. It maintains a veryfavorable student-faculty ratio (14:1), which encourages closer interaction between teachers and students. The studentbody now numbers around 325 and is the most ethnically and racially diverse in the nation, drawing applicants fromPacific and Asian countries as well as from Hawai‘i and throughout the U.S.

What distinguishes the Law School from other law schools?

It is one of the only schools in the U.S. offering resources in Pacific-Asian legal studies, ocean law studies, and environmental studies.
It has the largest and most diverse minority student population in the United States.
It has admitted women in high percentages for more than 20 years.
It is the only law school in Hawai?i.
Its friendly atmosphere and excellent faculty make studying here intellectually and socially rewarding.

Programme Structure

Courses

Business and Commercial Law

Conflict Resolution

Criminal Law

Environmental Law

International Human Rights Law

International and Comparative Law

Ocean Law and Policy

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Honolulu, United States

Disciplines

International Law Civil & Private Law Master of Laws (LLM) View 72 other Masters in Civil & Private Law in United States

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

To be eligible, an applicant must hold or expect to hold prior to matriculation a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university, or an equivalent degree from a recognized non-U.S. institution of higher education. At minimum, the applicant needs to demonstrate above average academic performance (B average, usually a 3.0 on a 1.0-4.0 scale) for undergraduate course work and for any post-baccalaureate or graduate course work.

Because the number of qualified applicants exceeds the number of spaces available, admission is competitive.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

44864 USD / year

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Out-of-State

44864 USD / year

≈ 44864 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

20800 USD / year

≈ 20800 USD / year

Living costs

Honolulu

United States

1640 - 2500 USD / month

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Funding

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Program Highlights:

The William S. Richardson School of Law

What distinguishes the Law School from other law schools?

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

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Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

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Living costs

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