School of Law
COURSE CATALOG
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Below students can find information about required, elective and specialized courses offered at 蜜桃导航 Law.
- Alphabetical Course List
- Bar-Tested Courses
- Electives & Specialized Areas of Study
- Upper-level Research & Experiential Learning Requirement
- Degree Programs
- Certificate Programs
Alphabetical Course List
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Course offerings each year depend on a variety of factors. By design, some courses are only offered in alternating years. Please refer to each course for more information on course availability.
This class is designed to help first-year students develop analytical skills needed for success in law school, on the bar exam, and ultimately in practice. The class will focus on strategies to prepare for class such as case reading and briefing. The class will also focus on how to prepare for exams with outline strategies and exam writing techniques. Further, students will learn stress and time management techniques.
This class will build on ASP I by reinforcing class preparation and exam-taking skills, with a heavy emphasis on improving analytical and written communication skills. Students will connect their learning in law school to the bar exam through instruction and problem-solving exercises.
Administrative Law
Course 311
3-hour elective course
Administrative agencies execute law affecting almost every aspect of daily life, including labor and employment, environmental, intellectual property, insurance, transportation, and health laws. This course does not focus on the substantive law of any particular agency; it instead examines principles and procedures common to all agencies, derived in large part from the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act. The course will examine the sources of agency authority, the limitations on agency actions, the procedures that agencies must use in rulemaking and adjudication, and the availability and scope of judicial review of agency actions.
2-hour elective course
This 2-hour course will focus on traditional admiralty and maritime law concepts, including an examination of the Jones Act, unseaworthiness, the Longshore and Harbor Workers鈥� Compensation Act, and the general maritime law. The course will also cover issues relating to maritime contracts and liens, limitation of liability, issues relating to collisions, allisions, and breakaways, fleeter鈥檚 liability, and issues relating to admiralty jurisdiction. The course will also review the available defenses and damages. While the concepts taught are applicable to all areas of maritime practice, the primary focus will be on maritime law as it applies to the inland waterways of the United States. There are no prerequisites.
2-hour research/writing course
This class is designed to offer students who have some experience with writing briefs the opportunity to sharpen their brief-writing skills and learn what makes a brief successful. The class will discuss how to present a case persuasively, considering issues such as developing a theory of the case, arguing thematically, using the components of the brief effectively, using precedent effectively, and structuring the argument persuasively. Students will brief an issue with which they are familiar. Students will write a brief to a court of last resort. There will be two oral presentations at which students will explain and defend their brief-writing choices. This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing requirement.
Prerequisite (Required): Moot Court Travel Team OR Appellate Advocacy OR permission of instructor.
This course will examine how the Court interprets individual rights guaranteed under the Constitution in a changing judicial and political landscape. Students taking this bar-adjacent course will study how different Courts have treated individual constitutional protections under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, including the level of scrutiny applied in recent Equal Protection challenges. The class will examine Supreme Court jurisprudence addressing privacy, liberty, equal protection, substantive due process, speech, and association. Many topics in this course involve ongoing legal disputes in education, religion, healthcare of people in government custody, and a parent鈥檚 ability to make healthcare decisions for their minor children. The class will include the impact of past Supreme Court decisions and examine the constitutional arguments and possible outcomes of current litigation. This course is designed to allow the course to focus on individual rights under the Constitution in the framework of the professor鈥檚 expertise.
Prerequisite (Required): Constitutional Law
Advanced Criminal Prosecution is a one-credit intersession course offered annually over the Law School's Spring Break week in conjunction with the Tennessee District Attorney General's Conference's (TNDAG) Trial Advocacy Course. Advanced Criminal Prosecution is intended to offer a select number of students (maximum of eight) interested in criminal trial advocacy intensive training in and exposure to prosecutorial litigation skills and strategy. In a "master class" approach to learning, experienced prosecutors from across the state of Tennessee will present instruction on all aspects of criminal trial practice, including jury selection, pretrial motions, opening statements, direct and cross examinations, evidentiary objections, and closing argument. Devoted sessions will focus on interviewing and preparing witnesses, selecting juries, case analysis, charging decisions, discovery, prosecutorial ethics, and professionalism. In those sections requiring student performance (of examinations, opening statement, and closing argument), students will receive critique, including individual reviews of their performances. This course will satisfy the Experiential Course requirement.
This class is designed to help second-year students develop and sharpen the analytical and communication skills needed for success in law school, on the bar exam, and ultimately in practice. The class will discuss effective methods for problem-solving, written communications, and solving multiple-choice questions. Students will exercise their problem-solving skills by completing several short writing assignments (e.g., memos, essays, and multi-state performance tests (MPTs)) and multiple-choice questions. Students will also have the opportunity to complete both timed and untimed assessments throughout the semester.
This course is designed for second-year students. Third-year students interested in this course for its focus on sharpening the analytical and communication skills needed for success on the bar exam should consider Fundamentals of Bar Writing.
ADR-Mediation
Course 316
2-hour simulation course
This course offers negotiation and mediation skills to prepare the student to properly represent clients in mediation. While students will likely gain insight into how the mediator conducts a mediation session, the goal of the course is lawyering skills in mediation, not skills as a mediator. This course will satisfy the Experiential Course requirement.
Prerequisites (Required): Professional Responsibility and Evidence, may be taken concurrently
3-hour simulation course
Appellate Advocacy is a writing skills course that builds on Legal Methods II. The course covers the basics of appellate advocacy: analyzing an issue on appeal, writing an appellate brief, and preparing and delivering an oral argument. The course offers instruction in brief writing through regular writing assignments, culminating in an appellate brief. It also offers instruction in how to prepare and deliver an oral argument. Students write a brief and give and judge oral arguments. Grades are based on the written work, oral arguments, and other aspects of class participation.
This course is integrated with the Advanced Moot Court Competition, although class members are not required to compete. The Advanced Moot Court problem will be the basis of class discussion. The Advanced Moot Court brief will be the draft brief for the course. Students will rewrite that brief for the final grade. The Advanced Moot Court Competition will give students the opportunity to practice their arguments for the final in-class argument. The course will be scheduled around the Advanced Moot Court Competition. Classes will focus on brief-writing until the Advanced brief is due. Classes from the time the brief is due until the competition starts will discuss an oral argument. The class will not meet during the Advanced Competition so students can devote their attention to competing. Students who complete the Advanced Moot Court Competition and one other competition are eligible for one credit in addition to the two credits for this course.
All students are highly encouraged to take this course to learn the basics of appellate advocacy and develop writing skills. This course is extremely important for students who wish to participate in moot court competition teams or become a member of the moot court board. This course satisfies the Experiential Course requirement.
Antitrust law is concerned with how law structures markets, and particularly with addressing the problems associated with concentrated economic power. Antitrust laws affect a wide range of sectors, from traditional manufacturing and retail to college sports, social media, online search, and much more. This course focuses primarily on harmful restraints of trade, monopolization, and mergers and acquisitions.
3-hour elective course
Bankruptcy Law is a foundational course that addresses the question of what to do when there's not enough money to go around. It provides a brief introduction to state and federal debt collection laws before diving into federal bankruptcy law. The emphasis is on the consumer side because that is most often the context in which these questions arise, but the course also explores concepts such as fraudulent conveyances and preferential transfers that are encountered in business contexts as well. The course serves as an excellent review of concepts learned in Secured Transactions that are likely to be encountered on the bar exam. It is a must for both transactional lawyers who want to draft documents that adequately address the possibility of financial default and litigators who want to know what to do once a judgment is entered.
Prerequisite (Required): Secured Transactions
This is a 3L-required course offered in the spring only. It should be taken in your last spring semester. Do not enroll unless you will graduate in May or August of the current academic year or December of the next academic year.
This is a course to help graduating students prepare for the Bar Exam both by reviewing some substantive law and instructing on how successfully to navigate multiple-choice questions, integrated question sets, and performance test questions. The class reviews three 鈥� four substantive areas of law. The subjects may vary from year to year, but currently include Contracts, Torts, and/or Criminal Law. Students answer practice multiple-choice questions, integrated question sets, and performance tests, and receive regular feedback on their performance. This course is in addition to, not a substitute for, a summer bar preparation course.
Bioethics & the Law
Course 304
2-hour elective course
This course examines the legal pillars and key principles of contemporary bioethics. It will focus particularly on cases and laws related to end of life decision-making, informed consent in the clinical and research contexts, and in the adult and pediatric contexts, medical research, justice and conscience rights in health care, and financial and other conflicts of interest in health care and biomedical research. Using illustrative areas to focus the discussion, the materials and discussion will reveal the case law underpinnings of bioethics and the difficult human stories of those cases addressed. They will also emphasize the day-to-day clinical realities that must be understood to address difficult bioethical/legal questions insightfully and appropriately. Class discussion is essential to this course.
Business Organizations I
Course 211
3-hour required course
This course is a survey of state laws (including selected statutory provisions and
common law doctrines) applicable to partnerships, corporations, and limited liability
companies. In general, the course deals with the formation, operation, and dissolution
of these various types of business enterprises. The readings focus on the legal rights,
privileges, and obligations associated with the entities themselves, as well as with
their owners, directors, managers, and employees. Both doctrinal principles and policy
underpinnings will be explored and emphasized throughout the class. Although the broad
framework of business serves as a backdrop for the legal doctrine, the course is designed
to be accessible to students without a business background.
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3-hour required course
Civil Procedure provides an overview of the procedural issues involved in the filing and adjudication of civil suits, primarily in federal court. Over two semesters (Civil Procedure I in the fall, Civil Procedure II in the spring), we will study jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter; venue; the applicable law; pleadings; joinder of parties and claims; discovery; adjudication without trial; principles of trial by jury; the preclusive effects of former adjudication; and, if time permits, additional advanced topics.
A subset of the above-listed topics is covered in Civil Procedure I (fall semester). Please check with the instructor for a list of the specific topics covered.
2-hour required course
Civil Procedure provides an overview of the procedural issues involved in the filing and adjudication of civil suits, primarily in federal court. Over two semesters (Civil Procedure I in the fall, Civil Procedure II in the spring), we will study jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter; venue; the applicable law; pleadings; joinder of parties and claims; discovery; adjudication without trial; principles of trial by jury; the preclusive effects of former adjudication; and, if time permits, additional advanced topics.
A subset of the above-listed topics is covered in Civil Procedure II (spring semester). Please check with the instructor for a list of the specific topics covered.
Course 322
3-hour elective course
This course covers 搂 1983 litigation and aims to make students familiar with issues that arise in prosecuting or defending a 搂 1983 action. TOPICS: Action under color of state law, statutory claims, Fourth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Due Process, Immunities, Municipal Liability, Eleventh Amendment, and if time allows, Recovery (including attorney鈥檚 fees), and Jurisdictional issues.
Conflict of Laws
Course 324
3-hour elective
BAR NOTE: Conflict of Laws will be tested on the bar exam through the February 2026 administration. Effective July 2026, the bar exam will not test recalled doctrinal knowledge for this area of law.
When an Arkansas driver is involved in an accident in Tennessee, which state's law applies? Are states ever required to recognize out-of-state divorces or apply foreign laws? When and how can contracting parties choose a particular set of laws to govern their relationship? This course will prepare you to address the issues that arise when a matter may be governed by more than one legal system. Particular areas of focus include horizontal (state-versus-state) choice-of-law approaches, constitutional limits on horizontal choices of law, recognition, and enforcement of out-of-state judgments, and vertical (federal-versus-state) conflicts.
Constitutional Law
Course 212
4-hour required course
This course introduces students to the U.S. Constitution, the structure of the federal constitutional government, and individual constitutional rights. Topics include the judicial power and congressional power, federalism, separation of powers, due process, equal protection, and (time allowing) First Amendment freedom of speech and religion. The objective is familiarity with these topics, the ability to read Supreme Court constitutional case law, and facility at constructing constitutional arguments.
Course 111/Course 121
3-hour required course/2-hour required course
This course addresses contract formation and breach of contract. Coverage includes the meaning of the word 鈥渃ontract鈥�; the doctrine of consideration and when promises may be unenforceable due to the absence of bargained-for exchange; the elements of and the subtle twists associated with offer and acceptance; the requirement of writing for certain types of contracts; the extent to which courts 鈥減olice鈥� the substance of a bargain to prevent unfairness and limit contract enforcement; the process of defining the scope of a contract; and the interpretation of contract language.
Copyright
Course 325
2- or 3-hour elective course
This course is only offered in the spring of odd years (e.g., Spring 2019, Spring 2021). Check the published schedule to determine how many credit hours the course will be in a given semester.
This course covers the subject matter of copyright, limitations on the subject matter of copyright, infringement of copyright, and defenses to infringement. This course will teach concepts fundamental to Copyright Law so that students will understand and be able to apply them to the analysis of issues arising in factual settings.
2-hour research/writing course
This course provides an in-depth discussion of the law, theory, and policy of corporate
governance. The course will be taught in a seminar format and will require the completion
of a paper. This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing requirement.
Prerequisite (Required): Business Organizations I
3-hour elective
The course focuses on the federal income tax aspects of corporate formation, capital structure, distributions to shareholders, redemptions of shareholders, liquidations, taxable acquisitions and reorganizations, and nontaxable reorganizations.
Prerequisite (Required): Basic Income Tax
Criminal Law
Course 126
3-hour required course
This course introduces students to the basic principles of substantive criminal law, the principles of criminal culpability, and the analysis of criminal statutes. Sources include the common law and the Model Penal Code. Topics include the criminal act, mens rea, homicide, attempt, complicity, conspiracy, and defenses. Its objective is familiarity with these sources and topics, and an ability to parse statutory language.
Criminal Procedure I
Course 223
3-hour required course
An examination of principles of federal constitutional criminal procedure, with a focus on search and seizure, the right to counsel, and the law governing interrogation and confessions. Its objective is familiarity with these topics, and the ability to formulate a constitutional argument for prosecution and defense in these areas.
Criminal Procedure II
Course 326
2-hour elective course
Covers all aspects of criminal procedure from pre-arrest through post-conviction and habeas corpus. Upon completion of the course, students should have a thorough and practical understanding of criminal procedure, particularly the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Prerequisite (Recommended): Criminal Procedure I is recommended, but not required. Primarily statutory, but with some practice emphasis.
Cyberlaw
Course 386
3-hour elective course
Cyberlaw introduces students to the criminal and civil laws governing computer networks. Following a brief survey of the infrastructural regulation of the Internet, this course emphasizes the practical application of the major federal statutes governing online activity. The course focuses on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and other significant computer crime provisions. The course also examines the scope of the Fourth Amendment in an online setting. Time permitting, the course may cover the legal issues involved in virtual property in virtual worlds, challenges posed by encryption, and the international complications that arise in the cyberlaw context.
Decedents' Estates
Course 213
3-hour course
For students who matriculated after August 1, 2023: Elective For students who matriculated before August 1, 2023 : Required BAR NOTE: Trusts and Estates will be tested on the bar exam through the February 2026 administration. Effective July 2026, the bar exam will not test recalled doctrinal knowledge for this area of law.
Coverage includes intestate succession, wills, non-probate assets, and a brief introduction to trusts. Objectives include mastery of fundamental principles under the Uniform Probate Code and their common law analogs.
Course 521
4-hour experiential course
Student-attorneys in the University of 蜜桃导航 Disability Rights Law Clinic represent clients and their families in a variety of matters related to disability law and the rights of persons with disabilities. Student-attorneys typically litigate on behalf of clients who allege violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (a federal special education statute), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. They also advocate on behalf of disabled clients who seek personal care assistance to enable them to remain in their homes and avoid being placed in an institution or nursing home. Student-attorneys are expected to take full ownership of their cases and are decision-makers (under faculty supervision) for all aspects of client representation. Clinical students also participate in weekly classroom sessions, during which they practice legal skills and discuss the challenges they are facing in their legal work. This course satisfies the Experiential Course requirement.
Divorce Law Practicum
Course 305
3-hour skills course
The Divorce Law Practicum is a semester-long course designed to convey the essential principles, skills, and values that a lawyer must embrace and master in order to provide competent counsel in the practice of divorce law. Working in the context of a simulated case file and related mock writing and advocacy opportunities, students will consider the potential effects of the substantive law, procedural rules, and ethical guidelines, as well as the accepted customs and practices of lawyers. Designed for students who have completed the fundamental Family Law survey course, this 3-hour Divorce Law Practicum will closely examine the primary areas of divorce practice.
Prerequisite (Required): Civil Procedure & Family Law
Prerequisite (Recommended): Trial Advocacy & Evidence
Education & Civil Rights
Course 310
3-hour elective course This course explores the intersection of education law and policy as it meets constitutional
and equal protection law. Students will be asked to consider policy decisions that
impact civil rights in various areas, including student assignment, student admissions,
and student instruction, and relate them to disparities across lines of race, ethnicity,
gender, native language, and religion.
1-hour research/advanced writing course
Students in Education & Civil Rights - Writing may enroll in an additional hour of coursework in conjunction with enrollment in the doctrinal Education & Civil Rights course. The additional coursework will involve conceiving and completing a substantial writing project on a topic connected to the subject matter in the doctrinal course and students in the writing course will present their project toward the end of the semester.
Elder Law
Course 374
3-hour elective course
Students in this course will learn basic principles relating to the practice of Elder Law. Course topics may include guardianships and conservatorships; powers of attorney (for health care and financial matters); housing (including assisted living facilities and nursing homes); health-care decision-making (including questions related to death and dying, Medicare, and Medicaid); elder abuse and neglect; financing health-care and long-term care; income maintenance (including basic principles of Social Security); and simple estate planning matters. Throughout the course, students will also consider the many ethical issues that arise in representing elderly clients.
Prerequisites (Required): First-year courses.
3-hour elective
Focuses on statutes banning discrimination in employment and other fair employment issues. Federal and state laws dealing with discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, disability, and national origin will be examined. Questions regarding affirmative action and "reverse discrimination" will be discussed. The course will also look at the recent erosion of the employment-at-will doctrine and a variety of special employment-related topics.
Environmental Law
Course 328
3-hour elective course
This survey course provides a broad, practical understanding of several important federal environmental statutes and related case law. The course is designed to introduce students to the variety of environmental challenges addressed by environmental laws, the difficult policy issues surrounding environmental problems, the legal complexities of environmental regulatory and administrative schemes, and issues associated with compliance and enforcement. The course focuses on the following federal acts: the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The course will also include a review of some of the Tennessee environmental statutes and related case law.
3-hour elective course
Estate Planning and Transfer Taxation provides a comprehensive examination of the Estate Planning practice with an emphasis on both the planning/drafting side as well as the administration/probate side of the practice. Students will review various Wills and Trust Agreements, as well as the Tennessee law governing each. Other Estate Planning tools such as Conservatorships, Durable Powers of Attorney, forms of Charitable Giving, and Retirement Planning will be covered as time permits. Students will be introduced to the three federal transfer taxes (Federal Estate Tax, Federal Gift Tax, and Federal Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax) both in the context of planning to reduce taxes and in the proper filing of tax returns.
Prerequisites (Required): Decedents' Estates
Evidence
Course 221
4-hour required course
Considers the presentation of and admissibility of factual information in the trial of a case: including the determination of relevance; proof of writings and other real evidence; qualification, examination, and impeachment of witnesses; privileges; opinion testimony; and the application of the hearsay rule. Emphasis is on the Federal Rules of Evidence.
The Expungement and Restoration of Rights Clinic will introduce students to the theoretical and practical aspects of representing clients with legal needs arising from the collateral consequences of prior arrests and convictions. Under the supervision of licensed faculty, Clinic students will provide direct representation to individuals seeking: (1) expungement of criminal records: (2) court cost waivers in closed criminal matters; (3) restoration of citizenship/certificates of voter restoration; and (4) certificates of employability. Clinic students will concurrently complete a curriculum designed to provide training in the handling of expungement and restoration of rights cases, to expose students to the complex legal, policy, social, and economic issues faced by persons previously charged with or convicted of criminal offenses, and to enhance the vital lawyering skills students will use in their casework and in practice beyond.
The Clinic will emphasize team practice and collaboration, and, where possible, develop and seize on community partnerships to provide broadly focused, multi-systemic advocacy for Clinic clients.
Prerequisite(s): Professional Responsibility (may be taken concurrently)
蜜桃导航 Externship Course offers students the opportunity to earn academic credit for carefully supervised legal work they perform in a variety of practice settings throughout the 蜜桃导航 area. Stepping outside the traditional classroom, externship students learn by doing and observing, further developing essential research and writing skills, communication abilities, and problem-solving techniques under the direction of local judges and attorneys. To maximize this experiential learning opportunity, externship students simultaneously participate in a faculty-led, weekly seminar designed to introduce the essential habits of the reflective practitioner, assessment of the skills, relationships, and mindsets that prevail in practice, and the formation of professional identity. Students are eligible for the Externship Course upon the completion of their first year. Students may not enroll in more than 16 hours, including the Externship, without requesting a waiver from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. This course will satisfy the Experiential Course requirement.
Family Law
Course 331
3-hour elective
BAR NOTE: Family Law will be tested on the bar exam through the February 2026 administration. From the July 2026 administration through the February 2028 administration, the bar exam will not test recalled doctrinal knowledge for this area of law. Effective July 2028, the bar exam will resume testing recalled doctrinal knowledge for this area of the law.
This is a survey course in Family Law that focuses primarily on marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, and issues related to the dissolution of a marriage. There is an emphasis on the practice of Family Law with a selective focus on Tennessee law.
Federal Courts
Course 333
3-hour elective course
This course addresses the constitutional and statutory provisions, as well as the judicially-created doctrines, that shape and limit the role that federal courts play in our system of government. It pays particular attention to issues implicating the separation of powers and federalism and to contending visions of the functions federal courts should perform in American society. Selected topics include the nature of the federal judicial function, standing and justiciability doctrines, congressional control of federal court jurisdiction, Supreme Court review of state court decisions and the relationship between state and federal law, the federal question jurisdiction of the federal district courts, judicial abstention doctrines and the power of federal courts to enjoin state court proceedings, and state sovereign immunity from suit in federal and state court.
Prerequisite (Required): Civil Procedure I & II and Constitutional Law.
Fundamentals of Bar Exam Writing
Course Number: 714
2-hour elective course
Offered in the Fall semester; taken in 3L year.
The NextGen Bar Exam requires examinees not only to know the rules of law but to demonstrate their ability to engage in problem-solving like a lawyer. This course prepares students for two question types on the NextGen Bar Exam: integrated question sets and performance tasks.
Integrated question sets appear in two formats. Counseling sets present a factual scenario and ask examinees to evaluate legal issues through a combination of short-answer and multiple-choice questions. Drafting sets require examinees to either review a legal document for errors in law or fact, or to draft a legal document from scratch. This course covers strategies for approaching both formats. The class reviews three 鈥� four substantive areas of law. The subjects may vary from year to year, but currently include Evidence, Agency/Partnership, and Real Property.
The course also addresses performance tasks, which require examinees to complete a longer writing assignment using a provided case file and library. Students will practice techniques for managing these tasks efficiently and producing well-organized written responses under timed conditions.
Gender & the Law Seminar
Course 496
2-hour research/writing course
This seminar is intended to provide students with an understanding of the evolution of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States by providing an overview of the laws, policies, and politics surrounding sexuality and gender. We will examine Supreme Court jurisprudence addressing LGBTQ+ constitutional issues including intimacy, liberty, and marriage. We will also explore federal court treatment of statutory discrimination protections based on sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation in the workplace, education, healthcare, and housing, among others. The class will focus on how social progress has impacted LGBTQ+ legal rights by considering the treatment of the LGBTQ+ community during the Twentieth Century, how the law has transformed, and why. This is a dynamic and rapidly-evolving area of law, and this course provides an overview of its evolution, ongoing changes, and likely future progression and challenges.
Along with the subject matter, as a seminar course, this class will also focus on further developing students鈥� legal research and writing skills and will satisfy 蜜桃导航 Law鈥檚 Advanced Writing Requirement. Students will complete a detailed and comprehensive research memorandum addressing a related topic of their choice that will require students to practice and improve their research skills using a broad range of sources. Students will conduct research and analysis in order to write a detailed, comprehensive, clear, and concise research memorandum addressing their chosen legal issue. Finally, this class will require students to further develop their ability to orally articulate their research topic confidently & coherently.
This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing requirement.
Health Law Survey
Course 722
3-hour elective course
This course provides broad coverage of health law issues, suitable for all students with an interest in health law while also serving as a foundation for those students seeking to concentrate their studies in health law. The course will seek to expose students to leading components of what health law practitioners consider to be health law. The course will introduce students to common themes in healthcare law, including health disparities; access to health care; individual rights vs. governmental powers; health care relationships; and the unique nature of healthcare markets. We will cover public and private provision of health insurance and regulation of private insurance, and we will cover the business of health care, including health care entity structure and governance; fraud and abuse; and competition. In the second half of the semester, we will cover patient protections, including the "duty to treat" and quality of care; abortion; end of life decision-making; and health privacy. Finally, we will address regulation of biomedical research on humans.
Immigration Law
Course 337
3-hour elective course
This course covers the subject matter of Modern Immigration Law and Policy. Principles fundamental to Immigration Law are taught so that students will understand and be able to apply them to the analysis of issues arising in factual settings.
Income Tax
Course 214
3-hour elective
This course covers concepts of gross income, exclusions from gross income, deductions,
capital gains, timing, and tax systems. An important objective of the course is to
develop the skill of reading statutes and applicable regulations.
Information Privacy Law
Course 728
3-hour elective course
This course is only offered in the Spring of even years (e.g., Spring 2020, Spring
2022).
This course is an introduction to information privacy law. The course will explore underlying concepts and definitions of information and privacy. Information privacy addresses how personal information is collected, disclosed, shared and used. The course will explore the protection of privacy interests in different types of personal information including health and genetic information, financial and consumer information, and information presented in government records. The course will explore the constant gathering of personal information and the creation of "digital dossiers," the problems with Big Data, and ways to protect personal information. The course will also introduce the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its application.
Insurance Law
Course 339
3-hour elective course
This course will focus on obtaining a practical understanding of insurance law and being able to interpret and apply the terms and conditions of contracts of insurance to determine coverage, exclusions, and loss as experienced by insurers and insureds. The coursework will include an examination of the purpose of insurance and fundamental concepts, insurance contract law, government regulation, limitations of risk, and exclusions. The course will include a review of property, liability, life, health, disability, automobile, and other forms of insurance coverage, including a familiarization of the actual policies of insurance so that the student is prepared to interpret the policies and advise clients as to the related issues. We will spend a considerable time with insurance coverage that attorneys will be called upon to consider and understand in most types of practices.
Intellectual Property Survey
Course 395
3-hour elective course
Intellectual property (IP) laws play an increasingly central role in the economy, business, technology and cultural life. This course is designed to introduce students to the major areas of intellectual property law -- trade secrets, copyrights, patents, and trademarks 鈥� and explore commonalities and differences among these different systems of IP protection. It is also intended to provide a basic understanding of IP law that may be carried into other practice areas, including both corporate/transactional work and litigation. Students will gain an appreciation for how intellectual property assets are a crucial component of many businesses and serve as the foundation for advancements in science, technology, and the arts.
Prerequisites: none
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Judicial Writing Seminar
Course 498
2-hour research/writing course
In this writing-intensive course, students will examine and practice the process of crafting the various documents a judicial clerk would likely be asked to produce for a judge. Although the course may be of particular interest to students who plan to serve as judicial clerks or who hope to one day become a judge, the ability to think and write 鈥渓ike a judge鈥� is an asset to any lawyer. All students interested in judicial decision-making or legal writing more broadly will benefit from this course鈥檚 approach and its attention to the view 鈥渇rom the bench.鈥� Writing assignments will include bench memos, trial court orders, and appellate opinions. Judges, law clerks, and other specialists may appear as guest speakers. This course will satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement.
Labor Law
Course 343
3-hour elective
This course will focus on the development, interpretation, and application of American labor law. While labor law is often assumed to apply only to issues surrounding employees represented by unions, in fact it impacts virtually every employer and employee in surprising and unanticipated ways.
The primary emphasis of this course is on federal labor law in the private sector, specifically the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and related statutes, which govern, inter alia, protected employee activities; employer actions deemed to infringe on employee rights; union organizing; collective bargaining; and the exercise of various kinds of economic pressure. We will examine the rights and responsibilities of employees, employers, and unions as they relate to each other. The course will also explore the enforcement mechanisms and jurisprudence surrounding the NLRA, including the structure and operation of the National Labor Relations Board. We will explore the shifting interpretations of the NLRA, including significant recent developments and proposed statutory changes. As further significant changes are anticipated to be forthcoming, we will examine them as they occur.
Land Use Law
Course 344
2-hour elective course
Land use law governs the way our cities are developed and redeveloped. This two-hour
course will focus on land use as practiced in Tennessee by examining pertinent case
law, statutes, and legal concepts related to the fields of planning, zoning, and subdivision
regulations. The course will also cover federal statutes that affect local zoning,
including Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, the Civil Rights Act of 1968,
and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as well as pertinent sections of the United
States Constitution and the seminal opinions they have promulgated.
Law Review
Courses 913, 914, 915
3- or 4-hour research/writing course
蜜桃导航 Law Review is the law school's scholarly journal, publishing four issues each year comprised of articles written by law professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as "Notes" written by student members of the Law Review. The Law Review also hosts an annual Symposium on a timely legal topic. Through their participation, members of the Law Review advance their writing, editing, legal analysis, and citation skills.
Students are selected to become members of the Law Review through a "write-on" competition held in the summer after their first year. The anonymously graded competition requires students to write an analysis of a judicial opinion using sources provided by the Law Review Editorial Board and complete a legal citation (i.e., Bluebook) test. The top three students in each first-year section, as determined by GPA, are eligible to "grade on" to the Law Review, provided they participate in and complete the write-on competition with a good faith effort.
Second-year students earn 2 credit hours for writing their Note and performing assignments such as "Bluebooking" works that have been accepted for publication. The credit hours are awarded in the Spring semester upon approval of their Note by their Faculty Note Advisor. Successful completion of a Note satisfies the law school's upper-level writing requirement. Also in the Spring semester, second-year members are invited to apply and interview for Editorial Board positions during their third year.
Third-year students serve either on the Editorial Board or as senior staff members. Editorial Board members receive 2 credit hours in the Spring semester of their third year, while senior staff members receive 1 credit hour. Editorial Board members fulfill the responsibilities of their particular position. Staff members assist in editing, cite-checking, and other tasks assigned by the Editorial Board.
A minimum GPA of 2.50 is required to participate in the write-on competition and remain on the Law Review.
Legal Argument and Appellate Practice
Course 347
2- or 3-hour research/writing OR simulation course
Check the published schedule to determine how many credit hours the course will be
in a given semester.
This is a practical course that focuses on the skills involved in taking a first appeal. Students will work with a real trial transcript. The class will focus on identifying issues for appeal and will cover topics such as preservation of error, plain error, harmless error, and standards of review. Students will write a brief to a court of appeals and argue the appeal orally. This course will satisfy the Advanced Research/Writing requirement OR the Experiential Learning requirement.
Legal Drafting: Litigation
Course 513
2-hour simulation course This course is designed to provide second and third- year law students with the skills
and knowledge necessary to draft client letters, pleadings, and motions involved in
civil litigation. Students will be challenged to refine their writing skills and
strategic analysis of pre-trial issues in this practical-based course. This course
satisfies the Experiential Learning requirement.
Legal Drafting: Contracts
Course 597
2-hour simulation course
This course is a transactional drafting course for second and third-year law students. The course is designed to provide students with the analytic skill of translating the business deal into contract concepts, and an understanding of the rules and techniques for good transactional drafting to enhance clarity and avoid ambiguity. Students will be challenged to learn to think like lawyers and develop skills in translating that thinking into the contracts they draft, utilizing a variety of contracts and transactional practice areas. This course satisfies the Experiential Learning requirement.
Legal Methods I
Course 113
3-hour required course The objective of this course is to produce competent practitioners using a guided
approach to legal research, legal drafting, and legal analysis. This course focuses
on the process of legal research, the objective analysis of legal issues, and the
substance and form of objective legal memoranda.
Legal Methods II
Course 123
2-hour required course
The objective of this course is to produce competent advocates. Legal Methods II covers persuasive advocacy. Building on Legal Methods I's an emphasis on research, analysis, and objective writing, students further refine these skills by drafting a persuasive brief and arguing before a mock court.
This elective course is designed to give students an overview of Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 40 and Rule 40A and their governance of the role and duties of Guardians ad litem in both public and private cases. This course will also provide best practices to students who are interested in representing children in legal matters such that they can apply said techniques to their future careers as legal practitioners and better protect and promote the best interests of Tennessee鈥檚 children. This course satisfies the Experiential Learning requirement.
Prerequisite (Recommended): Family Law
Legislation
Course 348
3-hour elective
Many law school courses focus on judge-made law and appellate opinions. The vast majority of American law, however, is enacted law鈥攕tatutory and regulatory law. This course is designed to teach students how legislatures enact law. Studying Article I of the U.S. Constitution as well as House and Senate standing rules, students explore how Congress is structured and how it operates to make law and policy. The course also discusses courts' relationship with statutory law and the canons of statutory construction. Finally, the course teaches students how to draft legislation鈥攁t the end of the term the class will sit as a mock legislature debating bills drafted by students.
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Mediation Clinic
Course 502
4-hour experiential course
Permit Required: You must apply for a seat in this course; details regarding the application process and deadline are published each semester via .
Students in the University of 蜜桃导航 Mediation Clinic will study mediation from the
inside out, analyzing in detail the communicative, strategic, and ethical dimensions
of specific interventions that mediators make in the context of particular cases.
The Clinic will primarily focus on the students as the mediators, but the students
will also be asked to consider the issues from other points of view: as the disputant,
as an attorney representing a client in mediation, and in the capacity of advising
an organizational client about dispute resolution options. The Mediation Clinic has
four primary components: (1) The training that is required by Tennessee Supreme Court
Rule 31 before one may become listed as a Rule 31 General Civil Mediator; (2) Ongoing
student observation of mediations conducted by Rule 31 Mediators in General Sessions
Court cases, Federal Court cases, and other administrative proceedings; (3) Student
participation as co-mediator (when available with clients' permission) with Rule 31
Mediators in Shelby County General Sessions Court cases (or other agencies); and (4)
Weekly classroom seminar and participation in simulations designed to give students
further training and feedback throughout the course of the semester.
Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic
Course 595
4-hour experiential course
Permit Required: You must apply for a seat in this course; details regarding the application process and deadline are published each semester via .
Housed in both devoted hospital space and the law school Clinic offices, law students participating in the MLP Clinic provide legal assistance to the low-income patients of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and their families under the supervision of experienced MLP faculty, lawyers, and healthcare providers. Among other case-related assignments, MLP Clinic students conduct intake interviews, develop case strategies, conduct legal research, prepare legal documents, counsel clients, and provide representation in court and administrative proceedings pursuant to applicable student practice rules. Among other areas of focus, the MLP Clinic assists clients in cases involving housing and landlord-tenant issues, public benefits, public and private health insurance, wills and health power of attorneys, guardianships, conservatorships, and educational law services.
To complement their casework, Clinic students will participate in a weekly interdisciplinary classroom session designed to explore the legal work they are performing, the legal, policy, and ethical issues that affect patients' health, and the ways that health outcomes and health care access for low-income children can be enhanced by bringing health and legal professionals together. Throughout their Clinic semester, students have the opportunity to work collaboratively with the faculty and staff of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and to participate in joint class sessions with medical students and students from other health disciplines.
Prerequisites (Recommended/Preferred): Professional Responsibility and Evidence.
Medical Malpractice Law
3-hour elective
This course will address both substantive and procedural issues in medical malpractice litigation. Specific coverage may include professional standards of care; statutes of limitation; informed consent; medically-related ethical and fiduciary duties; policies addressing caps on damages; evidentiary considerations such as the use of expert testimony; litigation strategies such as class actions claims; vicarious liability; and defenses to liability.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Course 301
2- or 3-hour elective
Check the published schedule to determine how many credit hours the course will be in a given semester.
This course introduces students to the legal principles that underlie mergers and
acquisitions. The advantages and disadvantages of various acquisition forms, such
as mergers, asset acquisitions, stock purchases, and tender offers are discussed.
Significant focus is also given to the fiduciary duties and other obligations of company
boards of directors, target defensive tactics, state anti-takeover statutes, and disclosure
and other requirements arising under federal securities laws.
Prerequisite (Required): Business Organizations I.
Course 524
1-hour elective course
Advanced Trial Advocacy is a skills course for students participating on mock trial travel teams. It focuses on developing and enhancing the skills necessary to put on a basic trial. It is a non-classroom course and students should enroll during the semester in which they compete in an inter-school competition. Students are able to take the course more than once if they compete in more than one inter-school competition. The Director of Advocacy may award grades of Excellent, Pass, or Fail, based on the recommendation of the team's coach.
Moot Court
Course 811
1- or 2-hour elective
Students can receive one or two credits for Moot Court by successfully completing intra-school moot court or mock trial competitions. A student who successfully completes two competitions is eligible for one credit. A student who successfully completes four competitions is eligible for two credits. Students may register for credit in the semester they complete the last competition necessary for credit or in any subsequent semester.
Course 523
1- or 2-hour elective
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National Security Law
Course 308
2-hour elective
Course 317
2-hour simulation course
Course 539
4-hour experiential course
In the Neighborhood Preservation Clinic, students represent the City of 蜜桃导航 in lawsuits filed against badly neglected, vacant and abandoned properties. Clinic students investigate property ownership and conditions, communicate with field code enforcement professionals, prepare civil lawsuits alleging claims arising under the Tennessee Neighborhood Preservation Act (NPA), and handle all aspects of those lawsuits as they proceed in the Shelby County Environmental Court. Each Clinic student assumes the role of lead attorney for the NPA cases he or she is assigned during the academic semester. Clinic responsibilities include weekly appearances in the Environmental Court, during which students present at hearings and status updates, negotiate with opposing counsel and parties, and do all else that is necessary to move the lawsuits forward. To complement their casework, Clinic students participate in a weekly classroom session focused on the pervasive challenge of property vacancy and abandonment in 蜜桃导航. The seminar segment of the weekly class exposes the law students to substantive code enforcement and housing law, national models of legal strategies to address problem properties, practice, and procedure in the Shelby County Environmental Court, and the issues of ethics and professionalism that arise in the context of their cases. The seminar also includes a case rounds component, during which students engage in an ongoing dialogue about the challenges they are experiencing while managing Clinic's cases. This course will satisfy the Experiential Course requirement.
Nonprofit Organizations
Course 370
3-hour elective course
This course covers the state law requirements regarding the organization and operation
of nonprofit organizations. In addition, a heavy emphasis is placed on the federal
income tax treatment of nonprofit organizations, including the requirements for obtaining
and maintaining tax-exempt status, the distinction between a public charity and a
private foundation, the private foundation excise taxes, and the unrelated business
income tax.
Prerequisites (Recommended): Income Tax and/or Business Organizations.
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Partnership Tax
Course 352
3-hour elective course
The course focuses on the federal income tax aspects of partnership formation, operations,
sales and exchanges of partnership interests, operating distributions, liquidations
and S Corporations.
Prerequisite (Required): Basic Income Tax
Prerequisite (Recommended): Corporate Tax
Patent Law
Course 390
3-hour elective course
This course covers the substantive requirements for obtaining a patent on an invention and enforcing patent rights in federal court. Topics include patentable subject matter; utility; disclosure; novelty; nonobviousness; claim construction; infringement; defenses; and remedies. A technical background is not required for this course.
Pretrial Litigation Practice
Course 353
3-hour simulation course
Pretrial litigation is applied civil procedure: it is an intensive simulation course designed for students who plan to be civil litigators (although criminal practitioners will find the motion-writing and oral-argument skills learned in class useful as well). Through a case file assigned at the beginning of the semester, students explore how lawyers strategically use each step in the pretrial litigation process to advance their clients' interests. Students litigate a case from when the client first approaches them up through summary judgment. They analyze the law and investigate the facts in the context of the assigned case file; draft complaints and answers; prepare and respond to discovery requests (including interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission); take and defend a deposition; brief and argue a pretrial motion (either a motion to compel or a motion to amend a pleading); and brief and argue a motion for summary judgment. After completing this course, students will have the practical skills necessary to hit the ground running in their first year on the job as a civil practitioner.
Course 224
2-hour required course
This course examines the institutions, rules, laws, and doctrines that regulate the practice of law. The course has a particular focus on the rules of professional conduct (aka ethics rules) but also explores broader topics, including admission to the bar, professionalism, and malpractice. The course will cover what the ethical rules permit, prohibit, and require as well as the practical, strategic, and moral concerns that influence the choices lawyers make. Almost all U.S. jurisdictions require that applicants for admission to the bar pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). Although this course is not designed as a mere MPRE prep course, it will undoubtedly help you prepare for the MPRE.
Course 115
3-hour required course
This is the first semester of the first-year property courses. Coverage in Property I and Property II includes personal property, private interests in land, and the sale of land. Objectives include mastery of principal concepts of acquisition, retention, and transfer of property rights.
Property II
Course 125
3-hour required course
This is the second semester of the first-year property courses. Coverage in Property I and Property II includes personal property, private interests in land, and the sale of land. Objectives include mastery of principal concepts of acquisition, retention, and transfer of property rights.
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Race & the Law Seminar
Course 449
2-hour research/advanced writing course
This course will examine the role of race in American law and society. More specifically, it will analyze how the law conceptualizes racial issues and formulates answers to racial problems. The course will explore: 1) Slavery's legal treatment of enslaved Africans through the use of slave narratives as well as traditional case law; 2) the role of the legal conception of a "color-blind" society in pivotal Supreme Court decisions; 3) the consequences of the "Separate but Equal" doctrine in the Post-Emancipation era; 4) how the vestiges of Slavery's and Jim Crow's concepts of racial inferiority still prevail in current legal doctrines and 5) the legal issues present in the contemporary movement for Reparations. The primary aims of this seminar will be a) to encourage students to develop a critical perspective of American Jurisprudence and b) to inspire them to visualize ways in which the American legal system can be an efficient medium for social change. Students will write and present a substantial, publishable quality paper. This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing Requirement.
Realty Transactions
Course 358
2-hour elective course
This course covers transactional aspects of the buying, selling, and financing of
real property including real estate contracts; title insurance, surveys, environmental
issues, and other pre-closing due diligence; conveyance documents and settlement statements;
mortgages and other real estate finance documents; foreclosures; bankruptcy and tax
implications; and ethical considerations.
Remedies
Course 368
3-hour elective - Bar-Tested
This course studies the nature and measurement of the judicial remedies to which a
party is entitled after establishing that a substantive right has been violated. It
focuses on Coercive Remedies (injunctions, specific performance), Damages (compensatory,
punitive), and Restitution.
Research I
Course 711
1-hour elective
This course does not satisfy the Advanced Research/Writing requirement, in whole or
in part.
Sales
Course 359
3-hour course
Prerequisites (Recommended): Contracts I and II
This course will provide law students with a basic understanding of the federal and state rules of evidence and ethical considerations addressing scientific and medical evidence. A particular emphasis will be placed on expert witness testimony and related trial practice skills, but other substantive cutting edge scientific topics anticipating eventual litigation will also be addressed. Students will learn to use scientific and medical evidence in both civil and criminal legal contexts, developing expertise in understanding legal and non-legal standards of reliability and in analogizing precedent in cases of first impression.
Secured Transactions
Course 222
3-hour elective
For students who matriculated after August 1, 2023: Elective For students who matriculated before August 1, 2023 : Elective; students may take BOTH Sales AND Secured Transactions in lieu of the required Commercial Law course.
BAR NOTE: Secured Transactions will be tested on the bar exam through the February 2026 administration. Effective July 2026, the bar exam will not test recalled doctrinal knowledge for this area of law.
A general survey of topics relating to the creation, perfection, and priority of security interests, as well as topics relating to the identification of types of collateral and rights upon default. This course is recommended as an introductory commercial law class that introduces the student to the Uniform Commercial Code.
Sports Law Seminar
This is the first of two first-year Torts courses. Torts addresses civil wrongs, other
than breaches of contract, for which the law provides a monetary remedy. Coverage
includes basic intentional torts (battery, assault, false imprisonment, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion)
and the privileges or defenses to the intentional torts. However, much of Torts is
devoted to the broad tort of negligence. Simplistically, negligence law is the study
of liability for accidental injuries. Other topics that may be covered include strict
liability (of which products liability is the largest component), wrongful death,
tort damages, business torts, defamation, and privacy.
Torts II
Course 122
3-hour required course
This is the second of two first-year Torts courses. Torts addresses civil wrongs,
other than breaches of contract, for which the law provides a monetary remedy. Coverage
includes basic intentional torts (battery, assault, false imprisonment, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion)
and the privileges or defenses to the intentional torts. However, much of Torts is
devoted to the broad tort of negligence. Simplistically, negligence law is the study
of liability for accidental injuries. Other topics that may be covered include strict
liability (of which products liability is the largest component), wrongful death,
tort damages, business torts, defamation, and privacy.
Trial Advocacy
Course 516
3-hour skills/simulation course
Trial Advocacy is a simulation course wherein students will learn about the various phases of jury trial in civil and/or criminal contexts, as well as the differences between jury and non-jury trials. Students will simulate jury selection, opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, and closing arguments, and will learn how to introduce exhibits, present expert testimony, raise and respond to objections, and deal with problem witnesses. Students will have weekly simulation assignments and, in most sections, will conduct a full trial at the end of the semester. This course satisfies the Experiential Course requirement.
Prerequisite (Required): Evidence, may be taken concurrently
Trust Law
Course 392
2-hour elective course
A comprehensive, theoretical study of the law of trusts, including the history, the
necessary elements of a trust, beneficiary rights, Trust administration, trustee roles,
and liability.
Prerequisites (Required): Decedents' Estates
Prerequisites (Recommended): Estate Planning
Electives & Specialized Areas of Study
蜜桃导航 Law's curriculum provides many elective courses which cover a wide range of substantive legal knowledge and lawyering skills. The upper-level curriculum permits students to take courses in specialty areas of law, develop fundamental lawyering skills, and concentrate their legal education in particular areas of interest. These elective courses are listed by basic specialty areas.
Effective July 2026, the subjects tested on the Bar Exam will change. An additional change will occur in July 2028. To the extent these changes impact the courses listed below, the impact is identified in brackets after the subject name.
The following courses directly correspond to subjects tested on the Bar Exam:
Business Organizations
Civil Procedure I/II
Contracts I/II
Conflicts
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure I
Evidence
Family Law [Family Law will NOT be tested from July 2026 to February 2028. Family
Law will return as a testable subject in July 2028.]
Remedies
Property I/II (Real Property is tested on the Bar.)
Sales
Torts I/II
The following courses directly correspond to skills tested on the Bar Exam:
Bar Exam Preparation
Fundamentals of Bar Exam Writing
Legal Methods I/II
Other electives will also provide exposure to Bar-tested subject matter. For example,
constitutional law is Bar-tested, so electives that address constitutional law in
specific contexts will provide additional exposure (e.g., Administrative Law). Similarly,
some courses will take a deep dive into Bar-tested subject matter that is covered
more narrowly in one of the courses listed above. Review the course descriptions for additional information.
Commercial Law
Bankruptcy Externship
Bankruptcy Law
Sales
Secured Transactions
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Advanced Constititional Law: Individual Rights
Civil Rights
Education & Civil Rights
Federal Courts
Legislation
Corporate/Business Law
Business Organizations
Legal Drafting: Contracts
Mergers & Acquisitions
Non-Profit Organizations
Sales
Secured Transactions
[See Business Law Certificate for additional related courses.]
Domestic Relations Law
Divorce Law Practicum
Family Law
Legal Representation and Advocacy for Children
Elder Law
Estate Planning
Trust Law
Health Law
Administrative Law
Bioethics
Health Law Survey
Intellectual Property Survey
Patent Law
[See Health Law Certificate for additional related courses.]
Copyright
Patent Law
Jurisprudence, Interdisciplinary Study and Public Policy
Education/Civil Rights
Health Law Survey
Labor and Employment Law
Fair Employment Practices
Labor Law
NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) Externship
Lawyering Skills Practice
ADR-Mediation
Negotiation and Mediation
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
Appellate Advocacy
Criminal Justice Externship
Divorce Law Practicum
Judicial Externship
Legal Argument and Appellate Practice
Legal Drafting: Contracts
Legal Drafting: Litigation
Legal Representation and Advocacy for Children
Legislation
蜜桃导航 Area Legal Services Externship
Pretrial Litigation
Professional Responsibility
Trial Advocacy
U.S. Attorney Externship
Administrative Law
Criminal Procedure II
Federal Courts
Remedies
Real Estate/Environmental Law
Environmental Law
Land Use Planning
Realty Transactions
Taxation
Corporate Tax
Income Tax
Non-Profit Organizations
Partnership Tax
Torts/Product Liability Law
Insurance Law
Information Privacy Law
Medical Malpractice Law
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Experiential Learning Requirement
Students matriculating after August 1, 2016, are required to satisfactorily complete
one or more experiential course(s) totaling at least six (6) credit hours, including
a minimum of one clinic course or externship. In addition to clinics and externships,
the courses that qualify as experiential courses are below. See Academic Regulation
16.c.
ADR: Mediation (2 Credits)
Advanced Criminal Prosecution (1 Credit; Spring Break Intersession only)
Appellate Advocacy (3 Credits)
Clinics - Varied (2-4 Credits)
Divorce Law Practicum (3 Credits)
Externships - Varied (2-3 Credits)
Legal Argument and Appellate Practice (3 Credits)
Legal Drafting: Contracts (2 Credits)
Legal Drafting: Litigation (2 Credits)
Legal Representation & Advocacy for Children (3 Credits)
Negotiation & Mediation (2 Credits)
Pretrial Litigation (3 Credits)
Trial Advocacy (3 Credits)
Upper-level Research/Writing Requirement: A student must satisfactorily complete a course that satisfies the Upper-level Research/Writing Requirement.
- Legal Argument and Appellate Practice
- Successful completion of the Law Review Note
- Seminars