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 18 units of coursework. This includes 12 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 required to take 5 units of the following additional courses:
- 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 and Defense of Abortion and Pregnancy Loss (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 (4 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)