Vanderbilt Law School Academic Program Guide 2024

Academic Programs Guide

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Academic Programs Overview + Introduction

The Law & Business Program

George Barrett Social Justice Program

The Energy, Environment and Land Use Program

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International Legal Studies Program

Intellectual Property Program

Program on Law & Innovation

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Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program Criminal Justice Program

The Program in Law & Government

Academic Programs Overview + Introduction Vanderbilt’s academic programs enable students to gain broad exposure to many areas of law or tailor their curriculum to take a deep dive into their desired area of practice. Each program integrates theoretical and skills classes with experiential learning to prepare students for real-world legal practice.

Law and Business. Earn a certificate in Law and Business through an intensive upper-level curriculum, including transactional seminars, that allows students to build expertise in business law, corporate management, finance, and accounting. The faculty includes experts in corporate, commercial, bankruptcy, antitrust, and tax law as well as arbitration and economics. Vanderbilt also offers a three-year J.D./ M.S.F. and a four-year JD/MBA. Intellectual Property. Prepare to enter copyright or patent law practice, domestic and international, through courses taught by international intellectual property expert Daniel Gervais, patent law expert Sean Seymore, music copyright scholar Joseph Fishman and noted practitioners, as well as an intellectual property clinic.

Energy, Environment and Land Use. Prepare for regulatory practice through a broad array of courses taught by leading scholars. The program also sponsors externships and fosters research opportunities through the Climate Change Research Network, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate and professional students representing several Vanderbilt schools and academic departments.

Criminal Justice. Focus on criminal theory and

Litigation and Dispute Resolution. Prepare to step immediately into sophisticated litigation practice through an advanced curriculum that offers a practical and conceptual understanding of the different methods that our justice system employs to resolve disputes. Faculty include leading scholars, practitioners, and judges.

Social Justice. Explore the role of law in creating, perpetuating, and eradicating hierarchies of power and privilege in our society through a curriculum that includes seminars, clinics, externships, and directed research projects along with ample extracurricular opportunities for pro bono legal work.

Law and Government. Prepare for careers in public law and policy through a comprehensive curriculum taught by faculty with nationally recognized expertise in constitutional and public law.

Law and Innovation. Anticipate the opportunities created by changes in law and legal practice. Launched in 2015 to train the next generation of lawyers to succeed in tomorrow’s legal environment, this program offers a robust curriculum and activities focused on four related themes: the legal industry, legal technologies, legal innovation and entrepreneurship, and access to legal services.

practice, criminal procedure, juvenile justice, international criminal law, mental health law and other areas through an array of upper-level courses and clinics taught by experts in fields such as law and neuroscience, human rights and juvenile justice.

International Legal Studies. Prepare for careers in a global environment by combining substantive classroom exposure to cutting-edge topics in international law with practical experience in their application through the International Law Practice Lab and externships. Core faculty have expertise in international corporations and transactions, intellectual property, human rights, trade law, and constitutional and criminal law.

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A leading law school at a leading university Founded in 1874 in conjunction with

Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Law School has trained distinguished and influential lawyers, policymakers and public servants for more than 145 years. Building on this tradition of excellence, the law school has established itself as a leader in designing programs that connect outstanding theoretical training to real-world experiences relevant to 21st-century law practice.

Our law school is not the only national leader on campus. Vanderbilt also houses prestigious graduate/ professional programs in medicine, education, business,

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engineering, divinity, nursing and music, among others.

As an integral part of top-ranked Vanderbilt University, the law school offers the cultural diversity and advantages of life at a leading institution of higher education.

It also affords students access to highly regarded interdisciplinary and dual-degree programs, including a J.D./Ph.D. in Law and Economics, a JD/MBA, a three-year J.D./M.S. in Finance and other dual-degree programs in medicine, public policy and divinity, among other areas.

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Ranking of Faculty by Scholarly Impact, Joshua Fischman

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Best Quality of Life, 2023 Princeton Review Rankings

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2023 Above the Law Ranking of Top 50 Law Schools based on employment outcomes, cost, and student debt

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Percentage of 2021 Graduates who took “elite” full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs, either federal clerkships or associates at firms of 100 or more attorneys (72.4%, based on ABA data)

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Best Classroom Experience, 2023 Princeton Review Rankings

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The Law & Business Program Vanderbilt’s Law & Business Program offers an innovative, intensive upper-level curriculum to students interested in a career in business law. The program allows students to build expertise in business law, corporate management, accounting, and finance by choosing among an extensive array of elective courses, including intensive transactional courses and seminars, without extending their studies beyond the normal three-year J.D. program.

Earn a Certificate of Specialization

Graduates of the Law & Business Program are prepared to enter legal practice with a solid understanding of the basic principles of finance and accounting, how businesses work, the ways in which the increasingly complex regulatory environment impacts publicly traded companies, their managers and their directors, and how to work effectively with businesspeople to help them navigate laws and regulations governing business activities. Graduates who fulfill the program’s requirements receive a certificate of specialization in Law and Business along with their degree.

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• • Alternative Business Entities • Comparative Corporate • Governance • • Corporate Litigation • Industry Transactions: • Negotiations and Drafting • Hedge Fund Regulation • and Compliance • International Renewable • • Energy Development and Finance • International Mergers & • Acquisitions

Introduction to Private • • Equity The Swinging Pendulum of Corporate Law • Lifecycle of a Corporation Role of the In-House • Counsel Real Estate Finance and Development Real Estate Transactions Financial Markets: Past, Present and Future Regulating Financial Stability

Law as a Business Negotiation and Drafting of Key Corporate Documents Negotiated Public Mergers and Acquisitions Drafting Securities Filings

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Cheek Business Law Scholarships and Summer Stipends James H. Cheek III, J.D. ‘67, generously established the Cheek Business Law Scholarship and the Cheek Summer Stipends to provide financial support for deserving students participating in the Law & Business Program. Each year, the law school selects at least one Cheek Business Law Scholar to receive supplemental scholarship funds for their second and third years of study completing the certificate in law & business, and Cheek Summer Stipends support experiential opportunities in certain government agencies, courts, or other settings that enhance preparation for a career in business law.

I came to law school with no clear path. I gravitated toward the Law and Business Program after taking Corporations with Professor [Morgan] Ricks my 1L year—I loved the class and wanted to take other corporate law courses. Many program faculty possess strong work experience and relate their realworld experiences to class discussions in an insightful way.

LUKE KESSEL | J.D./M.S.F. Class of 2022

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George Barrett Social Justice Program Law school is where each attorney’s unique path to building a better world through law first takes shape. The George Barrett Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt Law School promotes a dynamic atmosphere in which students and faculty focus on issues of equality, access and service—both inside and outside the classroom.

The program is just one element of Vanderbilt’s institutional commitment to lawyering in the public interest.

A variety of ways to engage

Throughout the year, the Social Justice Program sponsors guest speakers, conferences, workshops, and a variety of activities for both students and faculty. In our annual flagship event, the Social Justice Program recognizes a Social Justice Fellow, a distinguished member of the bar who has devoted his or her career to public interest law. During an on-campus residency, the Fellow gives a public lecture, presents to the faculty, and offers individual student mentoring sessions.

Students can also gain invaluable hands-on experience in our clinical courses, pursue volunteer opportunities through student organizations such as the Legal Aid Society and Law Students for Social Justice, take the Pro Bono Pledge to devote time each year to public service, participate in a Pro Bono Spring Break, and spend a summer or semester interning at a public interest organization or government agency.

George Barrett Social Justice Fellowship and Summer Stipends The Barrett Social Justice Fellowship honors the legacy of renowned Nashville civil rights attorney George “The Citizen” Barrett ‘57 by enabling a Vanderbilt Law graduate to carry out a one-year public interest project under the supervision and sponsorship of a host organization. The law school will provide funding to enable the Fellow to receive a salary and health insurance from the host organization.

Students seeking to launch social justice careers receive summer stipends from the George Barrett Social Justice Program to help defray their living expenses while they work pro bono for public interest organizations.

The faculty at Vanderbilt are really invested in your personal and professional development and go out of their way to connect you to exciting opportunities.

EMILY BURGESS | Class of 2022 Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey Public Interest Scholar Justice-Moore Family Public Interest Scholar 2022–24 Clerk, Judge Travis McDonough, U.S. District Court for the District of East Tennesseein

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• Juvenile Justice Seminar • Law and the Emotions Seminar • Legal History of Race in the United States • Legal History of the Voting Rights Act Seminar • Race and Law • Education Law • Employment Discrimination Law • Employment Law • Family Law • Immigration Law and Policy • Juvenile Justice • Mental Health Law: Deprivations of Life and Liberty • Non-Litigation Strategies for Change in Public and Social Policy • Poverty Law • Advanced Evidence & Trial Advocacy: Civil • E-Discovery • Legal Interviewing & Counseling • Litigating the Capital Punishment Case Learn more about the program

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The Energy, Environment and Land Use Program The Energy, Environment and Land Use Program (EELU) prepares students for careers i these rapidly evolving areas of law at government agencies, law firms, and legal nonprofits by offering a broad curriculum of courses focusing o key regulatory regimes along with research opportunities, a student-edited journal and internships.

Research Opportunities for Students VLS students are encouraged to write scholarly papers for journals and enter writing competitions, and they have ample opportunities to work with EELU program faculty on cutting-edge scholarship. Students may also serve as EELU Fellows, a position that allows them to co-author white papers on key energy, environmental, and land use issues. Students have won the prestigious national Burton Award, the ABA’s energy law writing competition, and other important national writing competitions, and their writing has been published.

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Environmental Law Programs and Specialties, U.S. News & World Report

I wanted to go into a niche public interest field, and you only have two summers during law school. My semester externships with Earthjustice and FLOW gave me two extra opportunities to gain experience in the field and make contacts.

SUSIE NESS CARLSON | Class of 2023 Associate Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center

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Environmental Law I: Public Governance Environmental Law II: Private Governance Climate Change Law & Policy Lab Energy Law International Environmental Law Land Use Planning Real Estate Finance and Development Water Law Climate Change Governance Seminar Sustainable Cities Property Theory Seminar Private Capital and the ESG Transition International Renewable Energy Development and Finance The National Environmental Policy Act & Infrastructure Permitting

International Legal Studies Program The International Legal Studies Program equips students to practice international law in their field of choice through a broad array of courses taught by renowned scholars and practitioners, internships where students gain practical experience, and the International Law Practice Lab, where students do high-impact work for clients around the globe. High-profile international practitioners and scholars visit Vanderbilt throughout each academic year to teach short courses, deliver talks, and mentor students. Students can expand their exposure to cuttingedge legal scholarship by joining the staff of the highly ranked Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Gain Concrete Experience in the International Law Practice Lab

Students in Vanderbilt’s unique Practice Lab immerse themselves in substantive legal work for clients that include U.N. agencies; the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense; and national governments such as Ukraine, Israel, Iraq, and Uganda. Practice Lab students also work on domestic human rights litigation around the world in nations such as Australia, Peru, and Kazakhstan, and support international tribunals, such as the International Criminal Court and the European Convention on Human Rights.

International Law Scholarships and Stipends Vanderbilt offers an array of scholarships for students seeking careers in international law that include financial support for summer and semester internships. Students may apply for the Raymonde Paul Scholarship, which includes tuition for Vanderbilt in Venice. First-year students may apply for the Helen Strong Curry International Law Scholarship, which provides support for the remaining two years of law school. Students may conduct paid work through two State Department grants the program administers. Funding for interns’ living expenses is available from Vanderbilt University and VLS.

When I looked at law schools, Vanderbilt had one of the top international law faculties in the country, and professors here are highly respected in their fields. The faculty here is nothing short of exceptional. Professors are committed to your professional excellent and invested in your development.

HARNELLE ST. CLOUD | Class of 2023 Helen Strong Curry Scholar, Associate, Dechert, New York

Courses

• Advanced Topics in International Humanitarian Law • Comparative Perspectives on Counterterrorism • Foreign Affairs • Immigration Law and Policy • International Arbitration • International Business Transactions • International Criminal Law • International Environmental Law • International Intellectual Property • International Protection of Human Rights • International Trade Law • Islamic Law: from Mecca to Modernity • Law of Cyberspace • Public International Law • Transnational Legal Research • Transnational Litigation • Immigration Practice Clinic • International Law Practice Lab • Jessup Competition Team • Human Trafficking: Law, Policy, and Litigation • International Mergers and Acquisitions • Comparative Corporate Governance • International Renewable Energy Development and Finance • International Labor Migration: Lawyering for Social Justice in Comparative Contexts • United Nations Law and Practice • Cybersecurity Law • International Trade Law (Spring 2023) • European Union Law (Spring 2023) • Globalization and Expertise Seminar • Advanced Evidence & Trial Advocacy: Criminal • Advanced Legal Research • E-Discovery • Legal Interviewing & Counseling • Litigating the Capital Punishment Case Learn more about the program

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Intellectual Property Program Intellectual property is one of the most vibrant and challenging areas of today’s legal profession. Emerging technologies are transforming the role communications networks and content play in our lives, and information has become globally accessible. Attorneys must be prepared to navigate an expanding array of rapidly evolving legal regimes. Clients need lawyers who are well prepared to help them thrive in this dynamic environment. The Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program prepares Vanderbilt Law graduates to meet this challenge.

A Varied and Highly Relevant Curriculum Students learn IP law basics in introductory courses— Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, Patent Law, and Trademarks—and gain practical experience in the Intellectual Property and the Arts clinic and the Patent Litigation practicum. They also explore advanced topics, including international intellectual property law, intellectual trade law, comparative copyright law, sports law, music and copyright, entertainment law, artificial intelligence, the law of cyberspace, and science and technology law.

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Administrative Law Antitrust Law Copyright Law Entertainment Industry Transactions: Negotiation and Drafting First Amendment Constitutional Law Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic Advanced Intellectual Property Licensing

• Intellectual Property Research • International Intellectual Property • Law of Cyberspace • Music and Copyright Seminar • Patent Law • Patent Litigation Practicum • Trade Secrets • Trademarks Short Course

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I wanted to pursue a career in patent law, and the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program attracted me to the law school.

VIVEK BISWAS | Class of 2019 Associate Robins Kaplan, Minneapolis 2018-19 Managing Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

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Program on Law & Innovation The law, the legal services industry, and legal education are all undergoing unprecedented transformations because of rapid social, economic, and technological changes. Vanderbilt’s Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) is designed to equip Vanderbilt Law students with what they need to successfully navigate and influence the directions in which these changes take law, and the legal industry, throughout their careers. PoLI’s curriculum and activities focus on four related themes: 1) The Legal Industry, 2) Legal Technologies, 3) Legal Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and 4) Access to Legal Services.

Explore the Future of Legal Practice

The Program on Law & Innovation offers an innovative curriculum designed to prepare Vanderbilt Law students to thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Beginning with Law Practice 2050, the program’s anchor course, students explore scenarios for future social, economic, technological and environmental change and learn to anticipate the corresponding impact on legal services. Courses teach students to exploit advancements in legal search engines, electronic document review, and emerging legal solution platforms, explore the laws of cyberspace, and learn how law firms, in-house legal departments, and alternative legal business structures operate.

The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Law

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Law as a Business Legal Operations Legal Problem Solving Legal Project Management Design Your Life in the Law Leading in the Law Blockchains and Smart Contracts Intellectual Property Survey Patent Law

The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Law brings together academics and practitioners working in one or both of two themes—AI for Law, which explores how AI will be deployed in legal research and practice; and Law for AI, focused on the legal, policy, and ethical issues that the deployment of AI in society is likely to create. Each year’s workshop includes some of the nation’s most thoughtful experts and thinkers in both spaces.

• Advanced Patent Law and Policy • Law of Cyberspace • Legal Practice Technology • Non-Litigation Strategies for Change in Public and Social Policy • Negotiation • Role of In-House Counsel • Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law

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The practice of law is rapidly evolving, and our curriculum exposes you to the biggest challenges we face across our systems of justice through coursework, research projects and collaborations with law firms, courts and legal nonprofits. We give you the tools to design innovative solutions that increase access to legal services and improve their delivery.

CAT MOON | Class of 1998 (BA’92) Director of Innovation Design, Program on Law & Innovation In addition to designing curriculum for the PoLI, Professor Moon established the Music City Legal Hackers, through which students collaborate with technology and business professionals to improve the delivery of legal services to underserved populations.

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Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program The Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program prepares students for the real world of litigation practice by acquainting them with the wide variety of ways that disputes are resolved, including arbitration, court-supervised settlement, mediation, negotiation and trial. The program offers students an advanced legal curriculum designed to enable them to step immediately into sophisticated litigation practice.

Deep Expertise

Vanderbilt’s law faculty includes experts in all aspects of litigation, including civil procedure, evidence, trials, juries, sentencing, appeals, transnational litigation, federal courts, the judiciary and judicial selection. Adjunct faculty who teach LDR-related courses include federal judges, assistant U.S. attorneys, vice chancellors of the Delaware Court of Chancery, Metro Nashville public defenders, and high-profile corporate and criminal defense lawyers.

Branstetter Summer Fellows The Branstetter Summer Fellows program is an initiative designed to enable law students who are interested in litigation and dispute resolution to work in unpaid summer internships with a non-profit or government organization where they will gain meaningful litigation experience. The Branstetter Program selects ten Branstetter Summer Fellows who receive a whole summer stipend or partial summer stipend for the internship.

No one really thinks companies ought to be able to do whatever they can get away with. But someone has to enforce the rules. Who will do it if there are no class action lawsuits?

BRIAN FITZPATRICK | Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise

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Appellate Litigation Arbitration Complex Litigation Conflict of Laws Evidentiary Challenges in the Courtroom • International Arbitration • Negotiation • Remedies

• Transnational Litigation • Advanced Legal Research • Corporate Litigation • Legal Interviewing & Counseling • Mediation • Patent Litigation Practicum • Pretrial Advocacy

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Criminal Justice Program Vanderbilt’s Criminal Justice Program offers students a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of criminal law and procedure. The United States has the biggest prison population in the world, the West’s longest sentences, more than 50 different criminal codes, and a complicated procedural regime. Criminal lawyers need to understand the principles underlying this complex system and how the rules work on the ground if they hope to achieve justice for criminal defendants, victims, and society. Vanderbilt offers a comprehensive curriculum that combines cuttingedge theory with ample opportunities to gain practical skills in clinics and through externships in the offices of prosecutors and public defenders. The Criminal Justice Program’s faculty is ranked among the best in the nation.

Integrated and Comprehensive Curriculum Every student takes Criminal Law in the first year. This course introduces students to the purposes of criminal punishment, the structure of criminal statutes, and basic liability and sentencing rules. In the second and third years, students may choose from an array of electives.

Two criminal procedure courses, offered every year, cover regulation of the police, including search and seizure and interrogation rules, and “bail-to-jail” issues such as preliminary hearings, plea bargaining, the right to jury trial, double jeopardy, sentencing and habeas corpus.

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Nancy King co-authors the most widely used criminal procedure treatise in the country and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Her co-authored book, Habeas for the TwentyFirst Century, proposes reforms to ensure that habeas appeals remain a vital part of the American justice system going forward.

Criminal Law Specialty, U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024

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International Criminal Law Juvenile Justice Mental Health Law Policing in the 21st Century Trial Advocacy Criminal Practice Clinic Actual Innocence Law and Neuroscience Sentencing White-Collar Crime Seminar Restorative Justice Short Course

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I became interested in criminal law while interning for a federal judge and had an opportunity to learn more about white-collar crime as a research assistant for Professor Nancy King. After those experiences, I knew I wanted to prosecute tax and financial crimes, and the DOJ’s Tax Division is a great place for that.

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The Program in Law & Government The Program in Law and Government aims to encourage teaching, scholarship, and intellectual engagement in structures of government, the allocation of powers among governmental institutions, and limitations on those powers. Disputes in these areas touch on fundamental values of the legal order and speak to some of the most vexing and interesting issues of our time. The program offers classes, lectures, panel discussions, and conferences each year designed to expose students to a wide range of scholarly perspectives—legal, political, historical, philosophical, and economic—that inform the practice of public law in the United States and abroad.

A Career Track in Government Service Recent Vanderbilt Law graduates James Truong, Class of 2021, and Chris Gracey, Class of 2019, are Presidential Management Fellows with the U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, respectively. Philip Morel, Class of 2021, joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a law clerk. Other recent graduates have also been selected for the Honors Programs of the Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development, and alumni serve on the legal staffs of many federal agencies and departments, including FERC, the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department, the DOJ and the U.S. Copyright Office.

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• American Legal History • Appellate Practice and Procedure • Behind the Curtain of the Supreme Court Seminar • Constitutional Law I Structural Questions, Federalism, and Separation of Powers • Constitutional Law II Individual Rights • Family Law • Federal Courts and the Federal System • Federal Indian Law • Federalism Seminar • First Amendment Constitutional Law • Foreign Affairs • Gender and the Law • Government Contract Law

• Health Policy Seminar • Immigration Law and Policy • Immigration Practice Clinic • International Protection of Human Rights • Law of Economic Security & Industrial Policy Seminar • Marijuana Law and Policy • Policing in the 21st Century Short Course • Public International Law • Reproductive Rights and Justice • Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic • Textualism and Originalism Seminar • Water Law

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I was interested in work that involved public policy and public service. USAID delivers humanitarian assistance to other countries. That was a mission I could get behind.

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