Core Requirements
The requirements for the Criminal Justice Specialization were developed by an advisory group of practitioners and academics, both alumni and friends of Loyola with the intent of preparing graduates to be exposed to the legal doctrines and skills necessary to be effective professionals.
The MLS degree requires 24 total units of credit. The Criminal Justice Specialization will be recognized with the satisfactory completion of 14 units of coursework in addition to the first-year Law & Process or Legal Methods course. This includes 8 units of required courses and 6 units of electives.
Required Courses
Successful completion of the following required courses:
- Criminal Law (4 units)
- Criminal Procedure (4 units)
Elective Courses
In addition to the required courses noted above, students in the Specialization are encouraged to take the following additional courses to the extent their schedule permits:
- Adjudicative Criminal Procedure (3 units)
- Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy Practicum (2 units)
- Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy Seminar (2 units)
- Appellate Advocacy (3 units)
- Collateral Consequences of Convictions Project: Re-entry Clinic (3 units)
- Community Alternatives to Policing and the Law (3 units)
- Criminal Law Motion Practice (3 units)
- Criminalization of Abortion (2 units)
- Critical Race Theory (3 units)
- Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes (2 units)
- Evidence (4 units)
- Fact Investigation (2 units)
- Federal Courts (3 units)
- Fundamentals of Juvenile Post-Conviction and Sentencing Law I (3 units)
- Fundamentals of Juvenile Post-Conviction and Sentencing Law II (2 units)
- Habeas Corpus Litigation Seminar (2 units)
- International Protection of Human Rights (3 units)
- Legal Research Fundamentals for the Litigator (1 unit)
- Oversight and Law Enforcement (2 units)
- Police and Prison Abolition (2 units)
- Pre-Trial Criminal Litigation (3 units)
- Pretrial Justice Practicum (3 units)
- Race, Class, and Criminal Justice (2 units)
- Racial Justice and Public Defense (2 units)
- Sentencing and Post-Conviction Law (2 units)
- White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice (2 units)
- Wrongful Convictions: Context, Fact, and Fiction (2 units)