About the Auburn Hills Campus
Cooley's Auburn Hills campus is located on 67 wooded acres in the heart of Oakland County, where more than 100 Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters or major business operations.
The campus has the newest, largest, "greenest", and most technologically advanced law school facilities in all of Southeast Michigan, with more than 130,000 square feet of space and 600 dedicated parking spaces.
June 4, 2012 - Cooley's Auburn Hills campus has achieved LEED® Silver certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the U.S. Green Building Council. The USGBC uses LEED certification to designate the world's greenest, energy-efficient and high-performing buildings.
The tri-level Law Center is located near the intersection of Oakland County’s major east-west and north-south freeways, I-75 and M-59 in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It includes a full law school library, high-tech classrooms, wireless Internet access, trial and appellate courtrooms, comfortable student study space, distance education classrooms, and a fully functioning Legal Aid office.
Cooley is the exclusive educational partner of Oakland University with dual-degree programs in business and public administration.
Housing Options
Auburn Hills students may choose traditional apartments, condos/townhouses, and homes to rent. Cooley students also have the option of living in student townhouses on the campus of Oakland University.
Facilities
The Auburn Hills campus has wireless Internet access throughout, two high-tech courtrooms, four high-definition distance-education classrooms, two computer labs, and class podcasting capability.
Oakland University is located less than three miles from the Cooley-Auburn Hills campus and provides our students with on-campus apartment housing at the same room and board rates as OU students. In addition, OU offers our students recreational center privileges, student health insurance, and access to Graham Health Center for patient visits, counseling, and disability testing services. Public transportation connects the two campuses.
Library
Our acquisition of the Oakland County Adams-Pratt Law Library collection will enhance the core collection of print and electronic materials and make it the premier legal research facility in the area.
Our collection includes U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1882 to the present, all federal cases and West’s Regional Reporters beginning with the second series of publication, thus providing access to case law from all jurisdictions, with corresponding digests and Shepard’s volumes.
The Michigan Collection includes all volumes of Michigan Reports since 1878, all volumes of Michigan Appeals Reports, both Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated and Michigan Compiled Laws Service, as well as two digest series for Michigan case law — Callaghan’s Michigan Digest and West’s Michigan Digest. Lexis, Westlaw, Matthew Bender and Hein Online provide electronic access to additional case law, treatises and law journals. Secondary sources are also available, including the American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum legal encyclopedias, Michigan Law Practice Encyclopedia, Michigan Civil Jurisprudence, and the entire series of American Law Reports.
Numerous multi-volume treatises on a variety of subjects particularly those supporting the LL.M. programs in Corporate Law and Finance, Intellectual Property, and Tax are also part of the collection. Other titles can be acquired as needed from the Lansing library via a daily shuttle delivery service. Study aids, such as hornbooks and nutshells, as well as all course reserves for Auburn Hills classes, are all on reserve at the library circulation desk.
Cooley Partnership with Oakland University
Cooley-Auburn Hills is the exclusive educational partner law school of Oakland University. Students graduating from OU who meet Cooleys admission requirements are given priority in selection of both campus and entering term. Cooley reserves a minimum of 15 seats per section for OU students at their Auburn Hills campus.
OU Honors College students earning a minimum GPA of 3.5 and a minimum LSAT score of 149 are eligible for early admission to Cooley during or after the second semester of their junior year, and these students are eligible for at least a 35 percent tuition scholarship, or more depending on their LSAT score and undergraduate GPA.
OU Honors College students who meet the criteria for the early admission
program and are admitted to Cooley can begin their law school education
early by taking two introductory courses at Cooleys Auburn Hills campus
while enrolled at OU during their last or next to last semester.
Cooley and OU also offer MBA-JD and MPA-JD dual degree programs for interested students.
OU Services and Facilities for Cooley Students
Through our partnership agreement with Oakland University, Oakland University extends the following services and facilities to Cooley students as listed below.
If you have questions on how to access these services, please contact Cooley ESS Coordinators at 248.751.7800; Val Schnable, extension 7767; or Angela Tyszka, extension 7787.
You will need an Oakland University ID obtainable at the Oakland Center the first week of Cooley classes. The ID fee is $10.00.
- You may join the Oakland University Recreation Center, currently $100.00 per semester, Fall-Winter-Spring.
- The Graham Health Center offers patient visits at varying costs from $35.00-$60.00 depending on type of visit.
- Graham Health Center also offers Counseling and Testing. Counseling sessions are $20.00 per visit; Learning Disability test battery is $275.00.
- On campus housing is available at the same room and board rates as OU students pay; the current rates are listed on the OU website. Cooley students are generally placed in Matthews Court student town houses, 2 persons in each. Housing placement depends on availability.
- The Oakland Center room rental is based on OU affiliated program. Facility information is available on their web site.
- Participate in Intramural Sports.
- Meadow Brook Hall, tours are free for students with IDs during regularly scheduled tour times.
- Visit the Oakland University Art Gallery, all exhibitions free of charge.
- Meadow Brook Theatre and Meadow Brook Music Theatre offer special student discounts.
- The Oakland University campus map. (Parking—unless metered—is free.)
