Public Interest Track
Required Courses
Students must complete the following two courses:
- Administrative Law
- Federal Jurisdiction
Distribution Requirement
Students must complete at least four courses (12 credits), including at least one course in two of the following curricular areas:
Individual Rights
- Abolition and the Law of Violence
- American Indian Law
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Constitutional Criminal Procedure
- Disability Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Fair Housing-Policies, Litigation, and Mediation
- Fair Housing Basics
- First Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Free Speech on Campus
- Global Freedom of Expression and the Press
- Health and Human Rights
- Ideas of the First Amendment
- Law and Social Change
- Law of Racial and Social Justice Movements
- Poverty Law
- Prisoners' Rights
- Race, Social Science, and the Law
- Refugees and Asylum
- Religion and the Law
- Reproduction Health and Justice Seminar
- Sexual Orientation and the Law
- Women, Children and Human Rights
Public and Non-profit Management
- The Not for Profit Institution: Issues in Law and Governance
- Power in Organizations (Kellogg)
- Reinventing Government (Kellogg)
- Dynamics of Leadership (Kellogg)
Specialized Practice Areas
- Animal Law
- Chicago's Gun Violence Epidemic
- Civil Rights Lawyering
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Constitutional Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Process
- Criminal Trial Practice
- Environmental Law
- Family Law
- Immigration Law
- Natural Resources
- Refugee and Asylum
- Restorative Justice Seminar
- Restorative Justice: Community Building and Practice
- Torts II
Clinical Requirement
Students must complete a minimum of six credits of clinical work through the following Legal Clinic or Practicum courses.
- Civil Government Practicum
- Clinic: MacArthur Justice Center: Criminal Justice Reform
- Clinic Practice: Center for International Human Rights
- Clinic Practice: Center on Wrongful Convictions
- Clinic Practice: Civil Rights Litigation
- Clinic Practice: Community Justice and Civil Rights Litigation
- Clinic Practice: Complex Civil Litigation
- Clinic Practice: DPELC Entrepreneurship Law
- Clinic Practice: Environmental Advocacy
- Clinic Practice: Federal Appellate Practice
- Clinic Practice: Immigration Law
- Clinic Practice: International Human Rights Advocacy
- Clinic Practice: Investor Protection
- Clinic Practice: Juvenile Justice Pre-Trial, Trial, Appeal and Post-Dispositional / Post-Conviction
- Clinic Practice: Second Chances for Youth: Decarceration, Diversion and Post-Sentencing Advocacy
- Clinic Practice: Tenant Advocacy
- Clinic Practice: The United States Supreme Court
- Clinic Practice: Women and Children's Human Rights Advocacy: International and Domestic
- Criminal Law Practicum
- Judicial Practicum
- Public Interest Practicum