Does west point teach law?

Question

well im getting closer and closer to college years and i wanted to be a lawyer in the US Army and i also wanted to go to west point so does it teach law or not?

Answer 1

Hi M1chael,

Law has been taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point for over 180 years. Like all academic disciplines at the Academy, its purpose is help achieve an overarching goal: "to enable its graduates to anticipate and to respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world" (Office of the Dean, n.d., 6). In the past decade, the academic curriculum, along with the physical and military components of the four-year education and training program at West Point, have changed significantly in order better to achieve this purpose. No longer required to follow an almost exclusively engineering curriculum, cadets must now balance their four-year course load equally between mathematics, sciences, and engineering courses on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. More recently, besides the required thirty-one "core" courses that all cadets must take, cadets are now able to pursue academic majors, including (since 1999) law and legal studies.

Answer 2

If you want to be a JAG, you still need to go to law school after college. You can go to West Point and then go off to law school somewhere else. There was a West Point grad in my class at law school.