Concentration in Public Interest Law:

Required Courses:                                                                                                        
Administrative Law (description)

*Note: Student must successfully complete Constitutional Law as a prerequisite for this
Concentration.

 

*Additional Courses: student must select any of the following courses as necessary to
comprise at least 18 total credits of coursework in the concentration:   
Access to Justice (description)                              
American Legal History (description)                                                                                                   
Bioethics (description)                                                                                                             
Business Planning: Forming a Nonprofit Corporation                                                                    
Civil Rights                                                                                                                     
Comparative Constitutional Law (description)                                                                                         
Consumer Protection (description)                                                                                                 
Constitutional History (description)                                                                                                                  
Critical Race Theory (description)
Domestic Violence (description)                                                                                                
Employment Discrimination (description)                                                                                       
Federal Courts and Jurisdiction (description)                                                                                                 
First Amendment Rights (description)                                                                                     
Immigration Law (description)                                                                                                           
International Human Rights (description)                                                                                               
Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation                                                                  
Jurisprudence (description)                                                                                                                  
Juvenile Justice (description)                                                                                                              
Government Provision of Health Care
Law and Social Change (description)
Labor Law (description)                                                                                                                          
Landlord & Tenant (description)                                                                                                              
Law and Education (description)                                                                                                              
Law and Terrorism (description)
Non-Profit Law (description)
Poverty Law
Critical Race Theory (description)
Religion & the Constitution
Remedies: Injunctions                                                                                               
Representing Children (description)
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Law                       
The Supreme Court                                                                                              

 

Practice Component:                                                                                                              
Clinical Externship: Public Interest  (description)                                                                                        
Consumer Protection Clinic (description)                                                                                                   
First Amendment Moot Court (description)                                                                                        
Frederick Douglass Moot Court (description)                                                                                            
Legal Services Clinic (description)                                                                                                             
Negotiation, Mediation & Arbitration (description)                                                                     
Negotiation Competition (description)                                                                                                          

60 hours of faculty-approved legal pro bono work (placement must be approved by concentration advisor)                                                                                                              
Federal Litigation QWC                                                                                                       

**Student must complete at least one significant piece of legal writing in the area.
Writing requirement may be satisfied as part of an offered course in the concentration or through an independent study

*Note: Some courses will not be offered every Academic Year.