Program Overview

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Introduction to the Juris Doctor Degree - Law

The Juris Doctor degree (JD) from Creighton University School of Law offers a purposeful education established on academic excellence, social justice, and personal growth. Caring professors who have earned outstanding reputations will mentor students. Students will learn in small classes where individual attention is paramount and have access to facilities, such as the exceptional law library, that inspire learning. The JD law degree at Creighton University will help students develop the skills for seeking justice in the world.

Program Details

• The program is designed to prepare students for a legal career focused on fundamental issues of security, personal liberty, and constitutional rights.
• Students will gain insights, tools, techniques, and skills to ethically and successfully practice law in the real world.
• The School of Law will help students develop these abilities in alignment with Ignatian values, including personal and professional formation and seeking justice.

Choose Your Program Pace

Accelerated

• The Accelerated JD Program at Creighton University School of Law is tailored to busy adult learners and recent college graduates who are eager to enter the legal profession.
• The program is two years long and begins in the summer.
• Students will receive the same education as those in the traditional JD track but will begin taking courses sooner.
• By completing the degree faster, students will ultimately launch their legal career sooner.

Traditional Full Time

• The traditional full-time JD program is three years and begins each fall.
• Students in this program are not required to take classes in the summer, allowing them to take advantage of experiential learning options.
• A student must complete 90 credit hours to graduate, which means an average of 15 credit hours each semester after completing the required first-year curriculum.

Reduced Schedule or Part Time

• Interested in earning a JD but cant attend school full time? At Creighton, students can attend classes with full-time students but take course loads suited to busy lifestyles.
• Courses are offered throughout the day during summer, fall, and spring semesters.
• Students have up to six years to complete the requirements for graduation and may elect to move into a full-time JD Program.

3 + 3

• Earn a law degree sooner. At Creighton, highly motivated undergraduate students can earn a bachelors degree in business or the arts and sciences and a law degree in just six years instead of seven.
• Students will spend three years on requirements for a bachelors degree and three years on requirements for a law degree.
• They will save timeand money.

Available Concentrations

Business Law

• The business law concentration is designed to prepare students for the demands and intricacies of the modern economywhether they go into employment law, banking law, real estate law, or any other business-related field.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

Criminal Law and Procedure

• The criminal law and procedure concentration will prepare students for a legal career focused on fundamental issues of security, personal liberty, and constitutional rights.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

Dispute Resolution

• The dispute resolution concentration will prepare students to resolve civil cases outside the courtroom.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

Energy, Environmental and Sustainability Law

• Through the energy, environmental, and sustainability law concentration, students will be prepared to work withinand help shapea dynamic law landscape.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses and complete a substantial project.

Family Law

• Family law covers a wide range of legal issues, including divorce, child custody, adoption, domestic violence, and more.
• Students must maintain a 2.0 GPA and complete a substantial project.

Health Law

• The regulations and federal, state, and local laws governing both healthcare operations and individual patients are increasingly complex.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

International and Comparative Law

• If students want to prepare for a legal career in the ever-changing globalized legal marketplaceand impact laws and policies affecting human rightsthe international and comparative law concentration is ideal.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

Litigation

• At the Creighton University School of Law, the litigation concentration focuses on how to best represent parties in trials, hearings, arbitrations, and mediations before local, state, and federal courts.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and complete a substantial project.

Sports Law

• The Sports Law concentration at the School of Law will provide students with a solid foundation in a wide variety of legal fields related to the rapidly changing sports industry.
• Students must take 18 credits in relevant courses and complete a substantial project.

Dual Degree Opportunities

JD/MS Government Organization and Leadership

• If students want to be a leader within government organizationsor those that work closely with themthe JD/MS in Government Organization and Leadership (GOAL) is ideal.
• The program is three years long and includes a semester living and working in the nations capital.

JD/MBA

• Earn a Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration in as little as three years with this dual degree program offered by the School of Law and Heider College of Business.
• The program is ideal for students who want to work in a legal practice, corporate law, business, government, or other organizations that require the ability to tackle both legal and business issues.

Law School Admission Requirements and Considerations

• All applicants should apply through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC).
• Submit a complete application and $50 application fee by March 31 for scholarship consideration.
• Provide all transcripts, LSAT scores, personal statement, resume, and two letters of recommendation.

Law School Tuition and Financial Aid

• The School of Law will help students secure financial aid, including merit-based scholarships and federal student loans.
• All enrolled JD candidates are eligible for scholarships.
• File the FAFSA to apply for financial assistance.

A Focus on Experience

• Creighton University School of Law is dedicated to preparing students for success from the moment they graduate.
• The school achieves this through a focus on experience with opportunities like externships, moot court and trial teams, legal clinics, study abroad, law journal experience, and many student clubs and organizations.

Accreditation, Bylaws, Disclosures, Policies, and Reports

• Creighton University School of Law is approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
• The school operates in accordance with the Creighton University School of Laws faculty bylaws and American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards.