The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (UDM) and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM or Monterrey), Mexico’s leading private law school, have partnered to offer the Degree of the Americas, a multiple degree program that allows students bilingual in Spanish and English to earn law degrees in the United States and Mexico.
Students completing this legal education program are awarded the U.S. Juris Doctor from UDM School of Law and the Mexican Bachelor of Arts in Law, the Licenciado en Derecho(L.E.D.), from Monterrey.
As part of this program, UDM will offer 14 courses in Mexican law taught in Spanish by professors from ITESM. Any UDM student may take these courses as electives. .
