After completing the first-year requirements, students can select from a variety of offerings to complete the minimum 91 hours to graduate. The majority of upper division courses are elective with the exception of the requirements listed below. Of these upper division requirements, only the Legal Profession requirement is a mandated course per se. Students choose among many options available in fulfilling the professional skills and seminar requirements.
Upper Division Requirements
Perspectives on Law Course or Seminar (1-3)*
Legal Profession (Professional Ethics) (3)
Experiential Courses (6)
Seminar (2)
*Perspectives on Law courses are only required for students who entered law school in 2019 or before.
Electives
Electives include both bar preparation courses and specialized courses. Students are strongly encouraged to take an appropriate balance of bar courses and specialized courses. Below are a small sampling of elective courses. For a more comprehensive list of recent offerings, see our current brochure.
- Administrative Law
- Business Associations
- Commercial Transactions
- Constitutional Law II
- Criminal Procedure (Adjudication)
- Criminal Procedure (Investigation)
- Evidence
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Real Estate Transactions
- Remedies
- Secured Transactions
- Taxation
- Trusts and Estates
Specialized Course Examples
- Comparative Law
- Immigration Law
- International Law
- International Sale of Goods
- International Trade Law
- Anatomy of a Patent
- Copyright
- Intellectual Property Survey
- Patent Law
- Trademark & Unfair Competition
- Bioethics and the Law
- Disability Law
- Fraud, Abuse and Health Care Regulation
- Health Care Finance & Business Planning
- Health Care Law
- Products Liability
- Transactional Health Care Practice
- Civil Advocacy and Clinic
- Civil Practice
- Criminal Defense Advocacy and Clinic
- Federal Criminal Prosecution
- Moot Court I & II
- Sem: Death Penalty
- Sem: Famous Criminal Trials
- Sem: Psychology of the Courtroom
- Sem: White Collar Crime
- Trial Advocacy I & II
- Alternate Dispute Resolution
- Disability Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Labor Law
- Workers' Compensation
- Business Transactions & Taxation
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Taxation
- Estate Planning
- International Taxation
- Partnership Taxation
- Securities Regulation
- Wealth Transfer Taxation
- Environmental Law
- Land Use Control
- State and Local Government Law
- Urban Issues Symposium