Curriculum

After a first year of core legal courses, an exceptionally liberal approach to course scheduling offers students the ability to custom tailor their schedules to meet individual needs and interests. Students follow a curriculum that concentrates on fundamental legal areas in their first two semesters. Each first-year student is assigned to a small — half the usual class size — section of a substantive course taught by a full professor, allowing greater opportunities for expanded discussion with noted scholars in these legal areas.

During the second and third years, students must complete both an upper level writing requirement and a course in professional responsibility. Beyond these requirements, they may choose from more than 100 course offerings. Nearly 60% of these elective courses have fewer than 25 students. Students also may receive up to 6 hours of credit for study in another discipline, complementing their legal education with advanced coursework in top-ranked University departments, such as accounting, engineering, computer science, social work, and medicine.

Download the Current Semester List (pdf) to view the specific courses currently offered. In addition, it is also a good idea to review the Course Counseling Handbook (pdf) to guide the course selection process.


First Year (1L) Courses

Second and Third Year (2L & 3L) Courses

Advanced Litigation Topics

Advanced Research

Advanced Topics in Business Law

Advanced Topics in Criminal Law

Business, Commercial and Intellectual Property Law

Comparative Law Topics

Constitutional, Public and Property Law

Current Legal Problems

Employment Law

Experiential Learning

Intellectual Property Topics

International Law

Jurisprudential Perspectives

Law of Person, Property and Torts

Practice and Procedure

Seminars

Taxation Law