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 attorneys.
The LLM degree requires 24 total units of credit. The Criminal Justice Specialization will be recognized upon the satisfactory completion of a minimum of 13 units of coursework. This includes 8 units of required courses and a minimum of 5 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 required to take a minimum of 5 units of the following additional courses:
- 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)
- Criminal Justice Reform Lab and Seminar (3 units)
- Criminal Law Motion Practice (3 units)
- Critical Race Theory (3 units)
- Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes (2 units)
- Evidence (4 units)
- Federal Criminal Prosecution (2 units)
- Federal Courts (3 units)
- Fundamentals of Juvenile Post-Conviction and Sentencing Law I (4 units)
- Fundamentals of Juvenile Post-Conviction and Sentencing Law II (2 units)
- Habeas Corpus Litigation Seminar (2 units)
- International Criminal Law (3 units)
- International Protection of Human Rights (3 units)
- Law and Genocide (2 units)
- Legal Research Fundamentals for the Litigator (1 unit)
- Police and Prison Abolition (2 units)
- Pre-Trial Criminal Litigation (3 units)
- Pretrial Justice Practicum (3 units)
- Sentencing and Post-Conviction Law (2 units)
- Wrongful Convictions: Context, Fact, and Fiction (2 units)