Policy Analysis

Required Courses
Students must complete the following three courses:

Administrative Law
Legislation
Perspective Elective

Distribution Requirement
Students must complete at least six courses (18 credits), including at least one course from three of the following categories:

Individual Rights

Animal Subjects, Human Regulators
Civil Rights Litigation
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Constitutional Interpretation, Problems in
Constitutional Law, State
Critical Race Theory
Disability Law
Employment Discrimination
Enforcement of Morals
First Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Free Speech and the McCarthy Era
Human Rights Advocacy: Analysis and Legal Writing
Ideas of the First Amendment
Law and Social Change
Pro Bono: Theory and Practic
Prisoners' Rights
Race, Racism, and the Law
Religion and the Law
Religion, Law, and Politics
Sexual Orientation and the Law
Women, Children, and Human Rights
Women and their Bodies

Government and Political Processes

American Democracy
Computers and the Law
Energy and Environmental Policy and Law
Environmental Law
Environmental Law Seminar
Food and Drug Law
Health Care Law and Policy
Immigration Law
Individual Income Tax
Land Use
Law and Education
Policing in America: Issues in Accountability
Refugees and Asylum
Separation of Powers
State and Local Government
State and Local Taxation
Telecommunications and Internet Policy
Urban Redevelopment
The U.S. Supreme Court

International and Comparative Law

Colloquium: Human Rights
Colloquium: International Law Foreign Policy
European Legal Systems and the Holocaust: From Genocide to Present Day Restitution
Human Rights in the 21st Century
International Environmental Law
International Human Rights I
International Human Rights II
Internationalization and the Legal Profession
International Law
International Law, Advanced
Nation Building: International Human Rights in Transitional Societies
Politics of Human Rights
Torture: Paradigms and Practice in International and Domestic Law

Law and Social Science

American Legal History
Crime and Criminology
Critical Theory
Economics for Lawyers
Feminist Jurisprudence
Jury and Social Science
Law and Economics
Law and Psychology
Law and Social Change
Law and Social Science
Law and Social Science Seminar
Social Science Research Methods
Women's Legal History

Research Requirement
Students must complete a substantial research and writing project within the Concentration. This requirement may be satisfied by one of the following:

completing an approved Senior Research Project on a policy analysis topic
completing a 2- or 3- draft paper, or equivalent research project, in a seminar or course approved as part of the Concentration, or
completing an approved Directed Reading and Research project on a policy analysis topic