As the capital of the country, Mexico City is also the largest city in Mexico with the most law schools available. The five law schools in Mexico City include Escuela Libre de Derecho, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) , Universidad Anahuac, Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Panamericana. Law schools are also located in other cities in Mexico, including Del. Coyoacán, Guanajuato, Hildago and Monterey.
Several nations in the Caribbean have law schools. In the Dominican Republic, for instance, law schools are found in Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Macoris, Santiago and Santiago de los Caballeros. The Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas accepts students who have earned a bachelor's degree from any university approved by the Council of Legal Education. Other Caribbean law schools are situated in Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama are all home to law schools. Each of the four law schools in Costa Rica is located in San Jose and includes the Universidad de Costa Rica. Besides the four which are located in San Salvador, El Salvador has one other law school in the city of Antiguo. Guatemala has law schools in Ciudad and Guatemala, and Honduras has law schools in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. Nicaragua has two law schools, both in Managua and Panama has two law schools in the city of Panama and San Francisco, Carrasquilla.
South America has law schools across the continent in a total of 13 countries. Of those 13 countries, French Guiana, Guayana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela each has from one to five law schools. In the larger countries, myriad educational opportunities in law can be found. In Brazil, for example, more than 85 universities offer law degrees and of these 85, 10 are in the city of Rio de Janeiro, alone.