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Required Courses

The School of Law provides a rich range of classes in both the day and evening divisions, which will fulfill the 87 credits you will need to graduate.

 

In addition to the first-year and upper-level required curriculum, we strongly recommend that you prepare for the rigors of legal practice by enrolling in as many of the "foundational courses" as possible to give you the strongest foundation possible. In addition, you will complete upper-level writing and advocacy requirements to further refine your learning.

Here are a few items to keep in mind with your course planning:

 

The School of Law's upper-level writing requirement may be fulfilled by the completion of a scholarly writing course (seminar) or qualifying journal credit. The scholarly writing requirement must be met by submission of an acceptable law review or journal article,  or by submission of a research paper (It is suggested that the research paper format be that of a law review comment with footnotes; that it have a length of not less than 25 pages; and that the process of developing it include the scheduling of discussion and review of written scope notes, outlines, and drafts, as well as the final product) and earns a grade of C or higher in a designated course listed below.

Advanced Business Organizations Seminar Issues in Law Enforcement Seminar
Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar Law and Disabilities Seminar
Animal Law Seminar Law and Religion Seminar
Capital Punishment & the Constitution Seminar Local Economic Development Seminar
Civil Liberties Seminar Mediating Family Disputes: Theory & Practice Seminar
Coastal Law Seminar Patent, Copyright and Trademark Seminar
Contemporary Legal Issues: Perspectives 
on Sexual Orientation and the Law Seminar		 Philosophy of Law Seminar
Cyberspace Law Seminar Race and the Law Seminar
Election Law Seminar Recent Supreme Court Decisions Seminar
Government Contracting Seminar Rights of Crime Victims Seminar
International Environmental Law Sentencing & Plea Bargaining Seminar
International Human Rights Law Seminar Special Topics in Law: Seminar
International Women's Rights Seminar Tax Policy Seminar

 

Students working on the Law Review, Law Forum and Journal of Land and Development may satisfy scholarly upper-level writing requirement by completing a note or comment that is found by the editorial board of the publication to be of publishable quality and that is approved by a faculty member as meeting the criteria for the upper-level writing requirement (a minimum of 25 pages, exclusive of footnotes or end notes)

 

The experiential requirement can be met by earning a C or higher in a minimum of 6 credits in live client experiences OR a minimum of 6 credits from a combination of live client experience (minimum 3 credits) and simulation coursework. Live client experiences include clinic and some externship experiences. Simulation courses include, but are not limited to, designated workshop courses, which are limited enrollment elective courses that build on prior courses and require students to draft documents and complex instruments through the application of substantive knowledge acquired in those prior courses.
Attorney Externship Innocence Project Clinic II
Civil Advocacy Clinic I Legal Data & Design Clinic
Civil Advocacy Clinic II Mediation Clinic for Families I
Community Development Clinic I Mediation Clinic for Families II
Community Development Clinic II Mental Health Law Clinic
Corporate Counsel Externship Pre-Trial Justice Clinic
Criminal Practice Clinic Pubic Interest Lawyering Externship
Family Law Clinic I Tax Clinic I
Family Law Clinic II Tax Clinic II
Immigrant Rights Clinic I Veterans Advocacy Clinic I
Immigrant Rights Clinic II Veterans Advocacy Clinic II
Innocence Project Clinic  
Advanced Trial Advocacy Judicial Externship
Banking Law Workshop Legal Research Workshop
Bench Trial Advocacy Legislation Workshop
Business Planning Workshop Litigation Process
CFCC Student Fellows Program I Mediating Family Disputes: Theory and Practice
CFCC Student Fellows Program II Mediation Skills
CICL Student Fellows I MSBA-UB Business Law Fellowship Program
CICL Student Fellows II Patent Litigation Workshop
Commercial Real Estate Workshop Planning for Families & Seniors Workshop
Dispute Resolution Workshop Professional Sports Workshop
Electronic Evidence & Discovery Workshop Residential Real Estate Workshop
Entertainment Law Workshop Supreme Court Workshop
Estate Planning Workshop (JD) Tax Research & Writing Workshop
Family Law Workshop Transactional Skills Workshop
Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling Trial Advocacy
  • Moot Court Teams
    American Intellectual Property Law Jessup International Law
    Brand Names Lefkowitz Brand Names Foundation
    Braxton Craven Memorial McGee National Civil Rights
    Cardozo-BMI Entertainment Law National Appellate Advocacy Team
    Evans Constitutional Law National Environmental Law
    Frederick Douglass National Moot Court
    Gabrielli National Family Law National Telecommunications
    Gibbons Criminal Procedure Taxation
    Inter-American Human Rights Thomas Tang
    International Environmental Law Wagner Labor & Employment Law
    Mock Trial Court Teams
    ABA Labor & Employment Law
    Employment Litigation Student Trial 
    Advocacy Competition    		 NBLSA Thurgood Marshall
    National Trial Competition
    Advanced Externship

    We invite you to learn more about the courses identified in each of these categories by viewing the course descriptions.