- Hampshire's Law Program is not a pre-law program in the traditional sense of one that specifically prepares students for the study of law as a profession.
- Rather, it is an interdisciplinary one, deeply committed to the principles of liberal education and founded on the premise that an understanding of law as a social force ubiquitous at practically all levels - local, regional, national, and international - is basic to the exercise of the rights, privileges, and duties of today's citizens.