COURSE GUIDE 2021–2022
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2021–22
Courses This is a representative sample and subject to change. Courses listed have been offered at least once in the past three years or are planned for the 2021–22 academic year. Bold listings are clinics.
Business, Commercial, and Corporate Law Advanced Administrative Law Advanced Corporate Law Advanced LLC’s and Partnerships Advanced Real Estate Transactions Antitrust Bankruptcy: Power, Process and Procedure Bankruptcy Clinic Business and Human Rights Business Associations/Corporations Business Law Clinic Business Law Concentration Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Comparative Laws
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Complex and Cross-Cultural Negotiations Construction Law Consumer Protection Clinic Consumer Protection Law Contract Drafting Contracts Corporate Counsel Corporate Externship Field Placement Corporate Tax Employee Benefits Energy Law Essentials of Business for Lawyers Estate Planning European Union Business Law Federal Securities Regulation Federal Tax Procedure Financial Crises and Scandals and How to Minimize Them Financial Regulation Food and Drug Law Insurance Law Insurance Law Clinic Integrative Leadership: From Theory to Practice International Bankruptcy International Business Operations and Negotiations International Business Transactions
International Tax International Trade Investment Management Law Labor and Antitrust in the Gig Economy and Beyond Law Firm Practice and Management Mergers and Acquisitions Nonprofit Law Pandemic: Overview and Exploration of Private Law Issues Partnership Taxation Principles of Corporate Governance: The Role and Responsibilities of the Corporate Board Products Liability Professional Responsibility – Business Racketeering and the RICO Act: Criminal & Civil Liability Real Estate Transactions Risk and Compliance: Theory and Practice Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic Secured Transactions/Creditors Remedies Securities Litigation Taxation I U.S Economic Sanctions and Export Controls White Collar/Corporate Crime
Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution Advanced Trial Practice Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Appellate Advocacy Bankruptcy Clinic Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic Civil Litigation: Case Development and Discovery Civil Procedure Civil Procedure II Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Moot Court Civil Rights Enforcement Clinic Community Legal Partnership for Health Clinic Community Mediation Clinic
MINNESOTA LAW Course Guide 2021–22 Conflict Resolution Construction Law Consumer Protection Clinic Cooperative Lawyering and Problem Solving Courts: Lawyers as Peacemakers Creative Legal Reasoning Criminal Defense Clinic Detainee Rights Clinic Digital Evidence Employment Law Clinic Environmental and Energy Law Clinic Environmental Law Moot Court Competition Team Environmental Moot Court Evidence Evidence Drafting Family Law Clinic Federal Defense Clinic Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic Federal Jurisdiction Federal and State Courts Federal Tax Procedure Housing Law Clinic Human Rights Litigation and International Advocacy Clinic Immigration and Human Rights Clinic Immigration Law Immigration Law Clinic Indian Child Welfare Clinic Indian Law Moot Court Insurance Law Clinic Intellectual Property Moot Court Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition Team Intercollegiate Mock Trial Team International Commercial Arbitration International Moot Court Interviewing, Counseling, & Negotiating Judicial Field Placement Law of Lobbying Legislative Process Moot Court Competition Team NAAC/ABA Competition Team
National Moot Court National Moot Court Competition Team Patent Prosecution Practice I Patent Prosecution Practice II Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team Practice-Ready Legal Research Products Liability Professional Responsibility Remedies Remote Semester Field Placement Robins Kaplan Civil Practice Clinic Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic Saeks Public Interest Residency and Externship Securities Litigation Thurgood Marshall Competition Team Trial Practice Visual Advocacy William McGee Civil Rights Moot Court Competition Team Winning Patent Litigation
Constitutional Law Campaign Finance and Election Law Civil Procedure II Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Moot Court Constitutional Law Constitutional Law – Civil Rights and Liberties Survey Constitutional Law – Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Law – Theories of Freedom of Expression Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech and Press Criminal Procedure: Investigation Criminal Procedure: Adjudication Equal Protection and Civil Rights Acts Federal and State Courts Federal Habeas Corpus Federal Jurisdiction First Amendment Government Secrecy
Human Trafficking Law, Race & Social Psychology Magna Carta and the Evolution of Anglo-American Law Remote Semester Field Placement Reproductive Rights Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights Sex Discrimination Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspectives Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition Team U.S Supreme Court and Great Cases that have Shaped the Nation
Criminal Law Abolition and the Carceral State Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic Clemency Project Clinic Criminal Defense Clinic Criminal Law Criminal Procedure: Investigation Criminal Procedure: Adjudication Criminal Prosecution Clinic Criminal Punishment Cybersecurity Law and Policy Death Penalty Detainee Rights Clinic Evidence Federal Defense Clinic Federal Habeas Corpus George Floyd’s Minneapolis: Past, Present, and Moving Forward Human Trafficking Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crime and Criminalization Migration Innocence Clinic International Criminal Law Law and Neuroscience Race and the Law: Systems, Structures, and Solutions
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Criminal Law
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Racketeering and the RICO Act: Criminal & Civil Liability Trial Practice White Collar/Corporate Crime Wrongful Convictions
Environmental & Energy Law Advanced Administrative Law Advanced Environmental Law Agriculture and the Environment Energy Law Energy and Utility Law Environmental and Energy Law Clinic Environmental Law Environmental Law Moot Court Competition Team Food and Drug Law Indian Law International Environmental Law Land Use Planning Law of the Sea Products Liability Public Lands and Natural Resources Real Estate Transactions Smart Growth Water Law
Family Law Advanced Administrative Law Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic Community Mediation Clinic Education Law & Policy Employment and Family-Based Immigration Law Estate Planning
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Family Law Family Law Capstone Family Law Clinic Indian Child Welfare Clinic Interviewing, Counseling, & Negotiating Poverty Law I & II Reproductive Rights Wills & Trusts
Health Law & Bioethics Advanced Administrative Law Biotechnology & Patent Law Community Legal Partnership for Health Clinic Cybersecurity Law and Policy Disability Law Employee Benefits Employment Discrimination Family Law Food and Drug Law Health Law
Insurance Law International Human Rights Law Law and Neuroscience Law, Biomedicine and Bioethics Nonprofit Law Reproductive Rights Risk and Compliance: Theory and Practice
Human Rights & Immigration Law Advanced Administrative Law Arab-Israeli Conflict: Legal Aspects Business and Human Rights Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Moot Court Death Penalty Detainee Rights Clinic Employment and Family-Based Immigration Law Employment Discrimination Employment Law Equal Protection and Civil Rights Acts
MINNESOTA LAW Course Guide 2021–22 European Union Law Family Law Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic First Amendment Gender Theory and the Law George Floyd’s Minneapolis: Past, Present, and Moving Forward Human Rights Advocacy Human Rights Law Field Placement Human Rights Litigation and International Legal Advocacy Clinic Human Trafficking Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crimes and Criminalizing Migration Immigration and Human Rights Clinic Immigration Law Immigration Law Clinic Immigration Law Field Placement Immigration Reforms Through History: An Ongoing Legal Narrative Indian Law International Criminal Law International Human Rights Law International Law International Moot Court Laws of War Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team Poverty and Human Rights Practice Ready International Legal Research Public Interest Field Placement Race and the Law: Systems, Structures, and Solutions Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights Rule of Law Rural Immigrant Access Clinic Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Human Rights Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and International Law Transitional Justice Women’s International Human Rights
Intellectual Property & Technology Law Biotechnology & Patent Law Copyright Cybersecurity Law and Policy Data Compliance Practicum Data Privacy Law Digital Evidence Energy Law First Amendment Food and Drug Law Health Law Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic Intellectual Property and Technology Seminar Intellectual Property Moot Court Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition Team Intellectual Property Transactions International Business Operations and Negotiations International Intellectual Property Law and Neuroscience Law, Biomedicine and Bioethics Patent Drafting and Oral Advocacy Competition Team Patent Field Placement Patent Law Capstone: Innovation Patent Law Seminar Patent Portfolio Management Patent Prosecution Practice I Patent Prosecution Practice II Patent Remedies Patent Research and Writing Patents Trademarks Trade Secret Law U.S. Economic Sanctions and Export Controls Winning Patent Litigation
International Law Arab-Israeli Conflict: Legal Aspects European Union Business Law European Union Law Human Rights Litigation and International Advocacy Clinic Immigration and Human Rights Clinic Immigration Law Immigration Law Field Placement International Bankruptcy International Business Operations and Negotiations International Business Transactions International Commercial Arbitration International Criminal Law International Human Rights Law International Intellectual Property International Law International Moot Court International Moot Court Competition Team International Tax International Trade Law of International Organizations Law of the Sea Laws of War Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team Practice Ready International Legal Research Rule of Law U.S. Economic Sanctions and Export Controls Women’s International Human Rights
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Labor & Employment Law Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Conflict Resolution Disability Law Employee Benefits Employment and Family-Based Immigration Law Employment Discrimination Employment Law Employment Law Clinic Human Trafficking Immigration Law Labor and Antitrust in the Gig Economy and Beyond Labor Law Sex Discrimination
Public Law Advanced Administrative Law Campaign Finance and Election Law Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic Congress, the President, and the Constitution Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties Survey Consumer Protection Law Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech and Press Cooperatives and Collective Entrepreneurship: Law, Policy and Practice Disability Law Education Law & Policy Federal and State Courts Federal Jurisdiction Gender Theory and the Law Health Law Housing Law Clinic Indian Law Indian Law Moot Court
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Information Access Practicum Law & Economics: Public Law Law, Biomedicine, and Bioethics Law of Lobbying Law of the Sea Legislation and Regulation Legislative Process Local Government Politics of Legal Policy Poverty Law I & II Professional Responsibility – Government Public Interest Advocacy and State Attorney General Public Interest Field Placement Public Law Workshop Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights Rule of Law Saeks Public Interest Residency and Externship Smart Growth Street Law Thurgood Marshall Competition Team
Tax Law Corporate Tax Employee Benefits Essentials of Business for Lawyers Estate Planning Federal Tax Procedure International Tax Nonprofit Law Partnership Taxation Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic Taxation I Wills and Trusts
1L Required Classes (32 credits) • Civil Procedure • Constitutional Law • Contracts • Criminal Law • Law in Practice • Legal Research & Writing • Property • Torts • 1L Elective
Upper Level Requirements (approx. 18 credits) • Constitutional Law (Rights) • Professional Responsibility • Journal or Moot Court • Other writing (seminar, independent research, etc.) • Experiential learning (6 credits, includes Law in Practice, clinics, etc.) • Legislation/Regulation
MINNESOTA LAW Course Guide 2021–22
Semester Abroad Options
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11 CONCENTRATIONS
HEALTH LAW & BIOETHICS
BUSINESS LAW
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
CIVIL LITIGATION
IMMIGRATION LAW
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY LAW
FAMILY LAW
INTELLECTUAL INTERNATIONAL LABOR & PROPERTY & LAW EMPLOYMENT LAW TECHNOLOGY LAW
Bankruptcy Business Law Child Advocacy & Juvenile Justice Civil Practice Civil Rights Enforcement Clemency Project Community Legal Partnership for Health Community Mediation Consumer Protection Criminal Defense Criminal Prosecution Detainee Rights Employment Law Environmental & Energy Law Family Law Federal Defense Federal Immigration Litigation Housing Law Human Rights Litigation & International Legal Advocacy Immigration & Human Rights Law Indian Child Welfare Innocence Project Insurance Law Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Rural Immigrant Access Tax (Federal Income)
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