Concentration Requirements

Core Requirements:

• Legal Foundation Requirement
  
  • Immigration Law
    
• Advocacy Skills Requirement

Either:

• Civil Litigation Skills Practicum

Or one course from the Advocacy Skills list A and one course from Advocacy Skills list B of the following:

Advocacy Skills List A:

• Trial Advocacy
• Appellate Advocacy

Advocacy Skills List B:

• Civil Discovery
• Civil Procedure II
• Civil Rights Litigation Seminar
• Legal Drafting
• Advanced Trial Advocacy
• Deposition Practice
• Fact Investigation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Law & Practice

C. Advanced Core Requirement

One of the following:

• Administrative Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Federal Courts

Advanced Electives (at least two credit hours):

One of the following:

• Administrative Law/Federal Courts/Criminal Procedure (if not taken for the Advanced Core Requirement above)
• Human Trafficking Seminar
• Representing Human Trafficking Survivors
• Immigration Consequences of Crime
• Business Immigration Law
• Approved Directed Research on an immigration topic

Experiential Opportunities:

One of the following:

• Immigrant Justice Practicum
• Civil Rights Litigation Seminar
• Employment Rights Clinic
• Approved Immigration Externship, examples include:
  • Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
  • Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
  • Public Counsel Immigrants' Rights Project
  • Catholic Legal Immigration Network
  • and the United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Research Requirement:

• Up to six hours of non-graded advanced research training in immigration law.  Concentration advisor will provide more information on how to complete the research requirement.

Service Opportunities:

Twenty of a student’s mandatory 40 pro bono hours must be completed promoting justice for immigrants. Students may choose from a preapproved list of programs or receive approval from the Immigration Advocacy Advisor for other programs or projects to qualify.

• Assisting with the Anti-Trafficking Litigation and Support Team
• Volunteering with the Immigration Law Society’s immigration clinic
• Volunteering at one of Loyola’s immigrants’ rights oriented externships