EXPERIENTIAL COURSES

Course Requirements

The required 6 credit hours of experiential coursework can be met by participation in a clinic or field placement, or one or more of the simulation courses listed below. Course offerings are subject to change based on staffing and enrollment.

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• Advanced Litigation • Alternative Dispute Resolution • Business Planning Seminar • Contract Drafting • Criminal Practice in Kansas • Deals • Deposition Skills Workshop • Due Diligence Workshop • First Amendment Advocacy • Kansas Supreme Court Research Practicum • Legislative Simulation and Study • Patent Practice • Pretrial Advocacy • Public Policy Practicum • Transactional Law Competition • Trial Advocacy

Students are required to complete three upper-level writing courses. The requirement can be satisfied by taking three professional writing-intensive courses or two professional writing-intensive courses and one scholarly writing-intensive course. Course offerings are subject to change based on staffing and enrollment. The same course cannot be used to fulfill more than one of the requirements.

Professional Writing-Intensive Courses

• Appellate Advocacy • Conflict of Laws • Contract Drafting • Corporate Governance • Criminal Practice in Kansas • Deals • Energy Law and Policy • Estate Planning: Practice • Federal Indian Law • Higher Education and the Law • International Business Law Drafting • International Law and Literature • Jurisdiction (depending on instructor) • Kansas Supreme Court Research Practicum • Legislation and Statutory Interpretation • LGBTQ Seminar • Patent Practice • Project for Innocence and Post-Conviction Remedies • Public Policy Practicum • Real Estate Finance • Transactional Law Competition • Writing for Law Practice

Scholarly Writing-Intensive Courses

• Advanced International Trade Law • Capital Punishment • Comparative Law • Elections and Campaign Finance • Environmental Law Seminar (varied topics) • Feminist Jurisprudence • Global Challenges in Law, Agriculture, Development and Ecology (with 1-hour Independent Research) • Independent Research (2 credits) • Jurisprudence • Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (2 semesters) • Kansas Law Review (2 semesters) • Mass Incarceration • Sex Crimes

• Note that not all of these courses are offered every year. Offerings are subject to change based on staffing and enrollment. • Additional courses in these categories, beyond those listed above, may also be offered.

Students are advised to review each semester’s options before enrollment. • Students cannot take more than 16 total credit hours of clinical and field placement courses.

Simulation courses listed on page 17 will satisfy the experiential coursework graduation requirement, but they do not count toward the 16-credit hour maximum for clinical/field placement courses.