• Environmental Law Practicum • Estate Planning • Family Violence Clinic • Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating • Labor Arbitration • Legal Drafting for Transactional Practice • Life Cycle of a Corporation • Mediation Practicum I • Mediation Practicum II • Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic (beginning Fall 2014) • Patent Prosecution & Procedure • Prosecutorial Clinic II • Public Interest Practicum • Summer Externship • Trial Practice
Courses outside the Law School Up to six hours of credit for graduate-level courses outside the Law School may be applied toward the J.D. degree. Registration for such courses requires permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Students must demonstrate the relevance of an outside course to their legal education and/or career plans. This privilege is not granted to first-year students. Student requests must be made to the Associate Dean in writing or by email no later than 21 calendar days before the end of the late registration/schedule adjustment period each semester. The request must include the course name, number and description, as well as an explanation of why the student wishes to take the course and how it relates to his or her legal education and/or law career objectives.
Advanced Writing Requirement The School of Law requires, as a condition for graduation, that each student complete a substantial, traditional research paper in a style similar to a law review article. The research paper must be at least 30 pages in length, with one-inch margins and be in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. The faculty member certifying a student's satisfaction of the Advanced Writing requirement must complete a certificate available from the Law School Registrar, stating the method by which it was satisfied and the grade earned. Completion of the Advanced Writing requirement is necessary before graduation certification can be provided to any Bar. The requirement may be satisfied in any of three ways: 1. Completion of a research paper (consistent with the requirements noted above) in connection with a class or seminar of 20 students or fewer taught by a full-time School of Law faculty member in which the predominant evaluation mechanism is the writing of a paper, on which a grade of not less than a B- is received. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, in
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