You determine what your degree will do for you.
What’s your destination? Find out through hands-on legal training. Specialized coursework. Expert faculty. Interdisciplinary work. Legal scholarship. Clinical law. Moot Court. Trial advocacy. Career-ready services. All while earning your law degree.
Map Out Your Legal Education
Sample First-Year Curriculum
First Semester
- Civil Procedure – 4 credits
- Criminal Law – 3 credits
- Torts – 4 credits
- Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing I – 3 credits
Second Semester
- Constitutional Law – 4 credits
- Contracts – 4 credits
- Property – 4 credits
- Legal, Analysis, and Writing II – 2 credits
- Introduction to the Profession
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Sample Upper-Level Curriculum
Experiential Learning Requirement
- Clinics, Externships, and Lawyering Skills courses
Course Requirements
- Administrative Law – 3 credits
- Upper-Level Writing Requirement (Seminars) – 2 credits
- Professional Responsibility – 3 credits
- Appellate Advocacy – 2 credits
Additional Electives in Multiple Areas
- Criminal Law
- Environmental and Energy Law
- Litigation and Advocacy
- Intellectual Property
- And More!
Curriculum Requirements
2.5 Minimum GPA
Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 and meet other requirements to remain in good academic standing and graduate
Fixed First-Year Curriculum
The first-year curriculum is a fixed set of courses taken by all students.
Flexible Upper-Level Curriculum
Students are largely free to shape their own courses of study during the last two years of law school, subject to a small number of upper-level requirements.