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Ave Maria School of Law, a Roman Catholic law school, is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Enrollment as of Fall 2005 is approximately 330 students. Ave Maria espouses a natural law philosophy and teaches law within the context of the Catholic intellectual tradition. Politically, its student body and faculty lean conservative. Ave Maria's dean and president is Bernard Dobranski and its faculty includes legal scholar Robert Bork and scholar Bruce Frohnen.

Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza and former owner of the Detroit Tigers, supports the school through his Ave Maria Foundation and serves as the chairman of the board of governors of the school.

Ave Maria School of Law's Board of Governors is currently considering a move to the newly planned town of Ave Maria, about 30 miles east of Naples, Florida, where the new campus of Ave Maria University, another institution supported by Monaghan's Ave Maria Foundation, is to be built. This is a matter of some controversy within the school, as many of the students and faculty are opposed to such a move.

History

Ave Maria's beginnings lie in 1998, when Stephen Safranek, Richard Meyers, Joseph Falvey, Michael Kenney and Mollie Murphy left University of Detroit Mercy School of Law after a dispute regarding the invitation of a pro-choice Michigan Supreme Court justice to give the oath at the end of the school's Red Mass. The founding faculty enlisted the financial support of Thomas Monaghan and recruited Bernard Dobranski to serve as Dean.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia assisted Ave Maria's leadership in developing the school's curriculum.

In 1999, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the school's first annual Ave Maria Lecture.

Ave Maria's inaugural class entered the school in 2000. In 2003, Ave Maria's first graduating class passed the Michigan Bar Exam at a rate of 93 percent among first-time takers, which was the top rate in Michigan. The University of Michigan Law School came in second with a pass rate of 90 percent.

Ave Maria gained full accreditation from the American Bar Association in 2005.

External links

• Ave Maria School of Law http://avemarialaw.edu/
• The Founding of Ave Maria School of Law by Stephen Safranek http://whoseamsol.blogspot.com/2005/10/professor-safraneks-talk-on-founding.html
• National Review article on Ave Maria School of Law in National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200312020910.asp
• Wall Street Journal Taste Page article on the potential move to Florida http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007536

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