The short answer: No. The University of American Samoa law school is not a real law school. It is a fictional institution in the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe, where Jimmy McGill earns his law degree by correspondence.
The University of American Samoa Is Fictional
Saul Goodman has many impressive credentials.
A real degree from a real University of American Samoa is not one of them.
The school exists inside the TV story. In Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill completes a correspondence law degree there before passing the bar.
There Is a Real College in American Samoa
The real institution you are most likely to find while searching is American Samoa Community College.
It is very real, and it currently offers an Associate of Arts degree with an emphasis in Pre-Law.
That program is designed to prepare students for transfer to a four-year institution and for legal/criminal-justice related study and careers.
It is not a J.D. program.
There Is No ABA-Approved University of American Samoa Law School
The American Bar Association’s current list of approved law schools contains no University of American Samoa.
Which is reassuring, because otherwise Chuck McGill would have several new things to be furious about.
What About the Old Online-Law-School Explanation?
The old version of this article wandered into real-world online legal education, California bar rules, tuition figures and shopping links for fictional-school T-shirts.
That is a lot of scenery for a yes-or-no question.
The useful answer is simpler: the TV school is fictional. American Samoa Community College is real. Its pre-law program is not Saul Goodman’s J.D.
Go Land Crabs
If you came here hoping the University of American Samoa was a real correspondence law school, I am sorry to ruin the application plan.
You can still yell “Go Land Crabs.”
That part remains free.
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