Program Overview

Program Overview

The university program provides a comprehensive education in law, with a focus on developing essential skills and knowledge for a successful career in the legal profession.

Required Courses

The program includes a range of required courses, each designed to provide students with a deep understanding of key concepts and principles in law. These courses include:

• Advanced Legal Analysis: This course introduces students to the bar exam, reviews material tested on the bar exam, and teaches important skills in reading, analyzing, and answering bar exam questions.
• Anti-Racism and Cultural Competency (ARCC): Students must complete one ARCC course, which provides an opportunity to understand the law's relationship to racial and other forms of inequality and/or cultivate awareness of cultural and other barriers that may constrain access to justice.
• Business Organizations: This course focuses on the fundamental conceptual framework of business organizations law, including the formation and conduct of business in the partnership, corporate, and limited liability company forms.
• Civil Procedure: The object of this course is to introduce the student to the civil litigation process, including the attendant jurisdictional questions, court organization, and pleadings and rules of practice in state and federal courts.
• Constitutional Law: A study of the allocation of governmental authority and the limitations on that authority as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
• Contracts: A study of the methods and policies under which the rights and duties of contracting parties are achieved.
• Criminal Law: This course deals with the competing interests and policies that come into action when the individual clashes with society.
• Evidence: This course is an introduction to the basic rules of evidence, which govern the proof of facts in criminal and civil trials, with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence.
• Income Tax (or Legislative & Administrative Process): A study of the codified law as it relates to the federal taxation of the income of individuals.
• Introduction to the Law: Introduction to the Law is a one-credit course required in the first year for all entering students, offered prior to the beginning of the first term, and graded on a pass-fail basis.
• Introduction to the Legal Profession: Introduction to the Legal Profession is a one-credit required course for all first-year students, offered prior to the beginning of the second term.
• Lawyering Skills I and Lawyering Skills II: Lawyering Skills I and II are required first-year courses designed to teach students the basic techniques of legal research, legal analysis, legal writing, and oral advocacy.
• Legislative & Administrative Process (or Income Tax): Legislative and Administrative Process introduces students to statutes and administrative regulations, the foundations of public law and policy.
• Professional Responsibility: This course examines the legal and ethical issues that lawyers confront regularly as they perform their unique, and often conflicting, role in today's society.
• Property: Starting with the historical evolution of the concepts involved in real and personal property, this course studies the rights and duties of owners and possessors.
• Torts: This is a course in the civil liability for harm inflicted on another.

Program Structure

The program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in law, with a focus on developing essential skills and knowledge for a successful career in the legal profession. The program includes a range of required courses, each designed to provide students with a deep understanding of key concepts and principles in law.