INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM

We start your legal education with a rigorous grounding in legal analysis, legal doctrine, and legal writing. You’ll learn the fundamentals of practicing law while developing the targeted knowledge and skills new lawyers need to succeed in an ever-evolving legal profession.

In your second year, you’ll choose from a wide array of elective courses representing a range of career pathways. And in your final year, you’ll continue to focus on practice-oriented courses. Along the way, you’ll learn how to draft motions, briefs, memos, and other documents that are the cornerstones of real-world legal practice. Plus, you’ll have a wide range of opportunities to gain hands-on experience in the field.

Our innovative curriculum prepares you to make immediate and positive contributions in a range of settings:

(August 2023) Introduction to Law

Civil Procedure Contracts Legal Writing I Professional Development Torts (or Property)

Criminal Law Constitutional Law Legal Writing II Professional Development Property (or Torts)

You must successfully complete at least five of the following courses:

Administrative Law Business Organizations Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Evidence Tax—Basic Federal Personal Income Trusts & Estates

You can select from hundreds of offerings to enhance learning in your areas of interest.

In this course, you’ll learn how to practice law and serve your clients according to the rules of professional responsilbilty that all lawyers must follow.

Accounting: J.D./M.B.A. and J.D./M.S. Bankruptcy: J.D./LL.M. Business Administration: J.D./M.B.A. Government and Politics: J.D./M.A.

This requirement is intended to ensure that you compose at least one scholarly writing for which you must analyze, synthesize, organize, and present legal material.

This requirement ensures that you’ll attain proficiency in the type of practical writing assignments attorneys take on regularly.

Designed to ensure that you attain proficiency in lawyering skills, in addition to drafting, in a real or simulated context, this requirement can be satisfied through our Clinics, Externships, Practicum, and Pro Bono Scholars Program as well as our Advanced Interviewing and Counseling, Advanced Trial Advocacy, Deposition Practice, Mediation: Representing Clients, Negotiation, or Trial Advocacy courses.

This seminar changes topics every time it’s offered to address cutting-edge issues in real estate law. It’s taught by leading practitioners and includes case studies and simulated transactions.

This course introduces critical reading and persuasive writing through persuasive briefs from major civil rights cases.

This seminar raises and discusses contemporary issues regarding freedom of the press in the United States and around the world.

This seminar delves into the ways in which the legal system deals (and has dealt) with people with disabilities in such areas as employment, public accommodations, and interactions with government and government-funded agencies (e.g., prisons, health care facilities, etc.).

This course examines a variety of judicial writings through the lense of feminist legal theory to identify inherent gender assumptions and power hierarchies and evaluate whether the outcomes would have been different through a feminist perspective.

This offering explores and challenges preconceived ideas with the aim of achieving a deeper understanding regarding the impact of the law and legal policy on Black/African Americans through a semester-long book club.

This seminar explores Black American social justice movements through the lens of music and the legal and historical context in which the music was created.

Professional Responsibility is a required course for graduation and tested on the bar exam. This course is specifically designed to fulfill those requirements for students interested in becoming prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys.

Building upon learning in Property, Contracts, and Constitutional Law, this class explores the role of contracts in creating and perpetuating race and racial hegemony within the United States and globally.

This course explores international and domestic law regulating activity from the air/atmospheric boundary to the moon, asteroids, and other celestial bodies in our solar system.