Areas of curricular focus & experiential learning - College of Law

Areas of curricular focus & experiential learning

Required Coursework

  • Civil Procedure I
  • Civil Procedure II
  • Contracts
  • Constitutional Law I
  • Constitutional Law II
  • Criminal Law and Administration
  • Dean’s Seminar–Legal Profession
  • Evidence
  • Legal Writing I
  • Legal Writing II
  • Legal Writing III
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Property
  • Torts
  • Strategies and Skills for Bar and Practice

Business

  • Agency and Partnership
  • Arbitration
  • Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights
  • Basic Corporate Law
  • Contracts
  • Contracts Drafting
  • Copyright Law and the Digital Age
  • Deals: Patterns and Practices in Business Transactions
  • Employment Discrimination Law
  • Employment Law
  • Externships
  • Federal Income Tax
  • Insurance Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation
  • Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Law Office Management
  • Mediation
  • Non-Profit Law
  • Secured Transactions
  • Selling and Leasing of Goods

Cybersecurity Law

  • Computer Criminal Law
  • Copyright Law in the Digital Age
  • Cybersecurity Law and Policy
  • Electronic Discovery
  • Externships
  • Technology Law

Criminal Law

  • Computer Crime Law
  • Criminal Justice and Public Policy
  • Criminal Law and Administration
  • Criminal Procedure–Adjudication
  • Criminal Procedure–Police Practices
  • Evidence Workshop
  • Expert Evidence
  • Externships
  • Federal Courts
  • Forensic Psychology in Civil and Criminal Law
  • Public Defender Clinic
  • Sex Crimes
  • The Theory and Practice of Punishment
  • Topics in Prosecution
  • White Collar Crime

Energy, Resources, Environment

  • Administrative Law
  • Advanced Oil and Gas
  • Basic Oil and Gas
  • Climate Change
  • Energy Regulation
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Law and Public Health
  • Externships
  • Native American Natural Resource Law
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Law on Federal Lands
  • Property
  • State Administrative Law
  • Water Law

Family Law

  • Administrative Law
  • Decedents’ Estates and Trusts
  • Elder Law
  • Externships
  • Family Law
  • Juvenile Law
  • Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and Gifts

Health Law

  • Administrative Law
  • Bioethics and the Law
  • Decedents’ Estates and Trusts
  • Elder Law
  • Environmental Law and Public Health
  • Externships
  • Forensic Psychology in Civil and Criminal Law
  • Health Law
  • Intro to Veterans Law
  • Law, Ethics and the Business of Medicine
  • Medical Malpractice and Healthcare Liability
  • Social Security Disability Law

Indian Law

  • Externships
  • Federal Indian Law
  • Indian Gaming Law
  • Indigenous Human Rights Law and Policy
  • Native American Natural Resources Law

International Law

  • Indigenous Human Rights Law and Policy
  • International Asylum & Refugee Law
  • International Energy & Natural Resources Law
  • International Environmental Law
  • International Law
  • Social Justice and Human Rights

Litigation

  • Advanced Family Law Practicum
  • Advanced Torts
  • Civil Procedure I
  • Civil Procedure II
  • Civil Rights Law Seminar
  • Conflict of Laws
  • Electronic Discovery Practicum
  • Evidence Workshop
  • Expert Evidence
  • Externships
  • Federal Courts
  • Immigrant Rights Project (Clinic)
  • Insurance Law
  • Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation
  • Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Law of Sports
  • Mediation
  • Military Law
  • Public Defender Clinic
  • Remedies
  • Terry West Civil Legal Clinic
  • Texas Civil Procedure
  • Torts
  • Trial Practice

Immigration Law

  • Immigration Law
  • Immigration Law and Policy Seminar Project
  • Immigrant Rights Project (Clinic)
  • International Asylum & Refugee Law

Clinical and Experiential Learning

Not all clinics are offered every semester

  • Buck Colbert Franklin Legal Clinic (Social Justice)
  • Externship Program
  • Immigrant Rights Project
  • Public Defender Clinic
  • Terry West Civil Legal Clinic

Competitions

  • 1L Negotiation Competition
  • Civil Motion Hearing
  • Criminal Motion Hearing
  • Family Law Negotiation
  • Hager Torts Appellate Competition
  • Immigration Law Competition
  • Redbud Classic
  • Trial Skills Qualifier Competition
  • Traveling Moot Court Teams