Curriculum

FIRST-YEAR COURSES—BUILDING A SOLID FOUNDATION 

Required of all first year students, this program brings in leading regional and national legal scholars and practitioners to heighten student awareness of professional responsibility, and to illustrate the highest principles of integrity and dedication to the legal profession and the public.

Business Organizations

Constitutional Law II
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Jurisprudence Requirement
Perspective Requirement
Planning Requirement
Professional Responsibility and Ethics

Rigorous Writing Experience Requirement *
Sales and Leasing
Secured Transactions
Trial Advocacy
Wills and Trusts

Note: Students may enroll in upper-level required and requirements any time after the first year, subject to prerequisites.

* The RWE Guidelines and RWE Form are available at the law school's "allaccess"intranet website under the Academic Resources/Registrar tabs.

Fulfilled by successful completion of one of the following courses:

Capital Jurisprudence

Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
Foundations of Law
Introduction to Legal Theory: Persons and the Law

Law, Culture, Society and Philosophy
Readings in Jurisprudence
Theology and the Law

Fulfilled by successful completion of one of the following courses:

Advanced Ethics Seminar (prior to Fall 2012)
Capital Jurisprudence
Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
Comparative Law: Japan
First Amendment Seminar
Great Trials
Health Law Seminar (prior to Fall 2012)
Judicial Process
Law, Culture, Society and Philosophy
Public School Law Litigation Seminar
Readings in Jurisprudence
Religion and the First Amendment
Special Education Law (prior to Fall 2012)
The Black American Lawyer
Theology and the Law

Note: Completion of two Jurisprudence classes will fulfill the Perspective and Jurisprudence requirements.

Students must take, in addition to the required courses, one of the following planning courses:

Business Planning
Common Interest Communities Lawyering Skills Seminar
Contract Planning
Corporations: From Formation to Major Transactions I
Estate Planning
Family Law Planning
Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions
Patent Prosecution
Real Property Planning