Requirements
Core Requirements:
Students will take at least one of the following courses for a minimum of three units.
- Administrative Law or Introduction to Administrative Law
- Civil Rights Litigation Seminar
- Constitutional Litigation/ Section 1983
- Center for Juvenile Law & Policy
- Principles of Social Justice
- Fundamentals of Public Interest Lawyering
Writing:
Students must select for their two-unit Upper Division Writing Requirement (UDWR) a topic related to Public Interest Law. This may be accomplished by selecting a seminar or other UDWR class from the list of Public Interest Law electives or by writing a law review article or directed research paper on a topic approved by the Concentration Adviser.
Electives:
Students must also take enough electives to reach a minimum of 15 units for the Concentration as a whole. In addition to the core, experiential, and writing requirements, students will take enough electives to reach a minimum of 15 units for the Concentration as a whole. Although all courses are not offered every semester, approved electives include:
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Criminal Litigation Skills
- Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law (4 units)
- Advocating for Vulnerable Children
- Animal Law
- Appellate Advocacy
- Bail-to-Jail: The Criminal Adjudicatory Process (3 units)
- Bioethics and the Law Survey
- Cancer Rights Law Seminar
- Children and the Law
- Civil Litigation Practice I
- Civil Litigation Practice II
- Civil Rights Litigation Practicum
- Constitutional Litigation/§1983
- Consumer Law
- Corporate Legal and Ethical Accountability
- Crime and Social Justice
- Critical Race Theory
- Cross Examination Intensive Workshop
- Death Penalty Law Seminar
- Directed Research (on approved topic)
- Disability Rights Law
- Education Advocacy Seminar
- Education Law
- Elder Law
- Election Law
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Employment Law
- Environmental Law
- Fact Investigation
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Feminist Jurisprudence Seminar
- First Amendment Survey (3 units)
- First Amendment Seminar
- First Amendment Survey
- Fourteenth Amendment Seminar
- Fundamentals of Public Interest Lawyering
- Habeas Corpus Litigation Seminar
- Hate Speech Seminar
- Health Care Access
- Health Care Organizations
- Health Law Survey
- Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic
- Housing Law
- Human Trafficking Seminar
- Immigration Law
- Immigration Consequences of Crimes
- Immigrant's Rights Seminar
- Intelligence, Testing, and the Law Seminar
- International Criminal Law & Policy
- International Environmental Law
- International Protection of Human Rights
- Introduction to Negotiations
- Juvenile Justice Program
- Labor Law
- Landlord/Tenant Law
- Law and Genocide
- Law and Sexuality
- Law of Global Warming
- Law Review (on approved topic)
- Legal Drafting
- Libel, Slander, and the First Amendment
- Local Government Law
- Local Government and Environment Seminar
- Mass Torts Seminar
- Mediation or Mediation Advocacy
- Mental Disabilities Law
- Mental Disabilities Law Seminar
- Nonprofit Corporation Law, Governance, and Management
- Police Practices Seminar
- Principles of Social Justice
- Prisoner Civil Rights Seminar
- Public Interest Law Practice Seminar
- Race, Class, and Criminal Justice
- Race, Gender, and the Law (3 units)
- Representing Human Trafficking Survivors and Victims of Labor Exploitation
- Reverse Discrimination Law and Affirmative Action
- Sentencing and Post-Conviction
- Sexual Orientation and the Law Seminar
- Spanish for Lawyers
- Special Education Law and Advocacy
- State Constitutional Law
- Supreme Court Seminar
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Trial Advocacy
- Workers’ Compensation Law and Procedure
- Wrongful Conviction Seminar (4 units)
- Youth Education Law and Practice
Experiential Requirement:
Students will earn at least four units of clinic or externship credit in a functioning public interest practice environment
- Working at one of Loyola’s on-campus clinics
- Externship in a practice setting as a part of a two-semester practicum course (ex. Civil Rights Litigation Seminar)
- An individually arranged externship with a non-governmental, non-profit law office
- Civil Rights Litigation Externship