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A Comprehensive Curriculum

Saint Louis University School of Law offers an array of courses that comprise over 150 credit hours of a rich and challenging curriculum. To help students make their selections, several advising sessions are scheduled during the spring.

Click on Course Planning to help plan your schedule.

Curriculum Clusters

The following list of curriculum clusters may assist you in planning your law school career at Saint Louis University. See course descriptions for more information.

Clinical Experience

• Applied Mediation Skills and Clinic
• Civil Advocacy and Clinic
• Civil Practice
• Client Counseling
• Corporate Counsel Program
• Criminal Defense Advocacy and Clinic
• Externship Clinic
• Judicial Process Externship
• Legal Profession
• Legal Research and Writing I, II
• Moot Court I, II
• Negotiation Theory and Strategy
• Trial Advocacy I, II

Seminars:*
• Civil Rights
• Jury Instructions
• Labor Arbitration


Commercial and Corporate
• Advanced Real Estate Transactions
• Advanced Secured Transactions
• Antitrust
• Bankruptcy
• Business Associations
• Commercial Transactions
• Consumer Credit
• Contemporary Contract Law in China
• Contracts I, II
• Corporate Counsel Program
• Corporate Finance
• European Union Law: Antitrust and Merger Control
• Health Care Finance and Business Planning
• Law and Economics
• Real Estate Transactions
• Secured Transactions
• Securities Regulation

Seminars:*
• Comparative EU Investment Law
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• ERISA and Employee Benefits
• Issues in Corporate Law
• Issues in Non-Profit Organizations
• Sports Law: Negotiation/Drafting


Criminal Law
• Criminal Clinic
• Criminal Defense Advocacy and Clinic
• Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
• Criminal Procedure: Investigation

Seminars:*
• Comparative Criminal Law
• Comparative Criminal Procedure
• Critical Race Theory
• Death Penalty Litigation
• Jury Instructions
• Law and Psychology
• White Collar Crime


Employment Law
• Administrative Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Comparative EU/U.S. Employment Law
• Disability Discrimination
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Relations
• Labor Arbitration
• Law of Labor Relations
• Public Employment Law
• Unions and Their Members
• Workers’ Compensation

Seminars:*
• Current Issues in Employment Law
• ERISA and Employee Benefits
• Labor Arbitration
• Sports Law: Negotiation/Drafting


Environmental Law
• Administrative Law
• Environmental Law
• Land Use Control
• Legislation
• Natural Resources Law
• State and Local Government

Seminars:*
• Energy, Economics and the Environment
• Protection of BioDiversity
• Public Health and the Environment

Health Law
• Bioethics and the Law
• Disability Discrimination
• Drug and Device Regulation
• Health Care Financing and Business Planning
• Health Care Law
• Health Care Quality
• Insurance Law
• Products Liability
• Public Employment Law
• Transactional Health Care Practice

Seminars:*
• Access to Health Care
• Advanced Topics in Medical Malpractice and Drug Litigation
• Biotechnology and Health Law
• Child Health and Law
• Children with Disabilities
• Fraud and Abuse
• Health Law and Technology
• Intellectual Property and Antitrust
• Law and Psychiatry
• Law and Psychology
• Medicare Payment and Reform
• Non-Profit Organizations
• Public Health and Bioterrorism
• Public Health Law and Ethics
• Regulation of Health Care Transactions
• Regulation of Research


Humanities
• Bioethics and the Law
• Comparative Law
• International Human Rights
• Jurisprudence
• Law and Economics
• Legal History

Seminars:*
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Canon Law
• Constitutional Interpretation
• Critical Race Theory
• Death Penalty
• Epistemological Foundations of Law
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Law and Literature
• Law, Religion and Morality
• The Founders’ Constitution
• Women in International Law


International and Comparative Law
• Admiralty
• Comparative EU/U.S. Employment Law
• Comparative Law
• Conflict of Laws
• Contemporary Contract Law in China
• European Union Law: Antitrust and Merger Control
• Immigration Law
• International Human Rights
• International Law
• International Tax
• International Trade Law
• Jessup Moot Court

Seminars:*
• Comparative Asian Environmental Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Comparative Criminal Law
• Comparative EU Investment Law
• Foreign Relations Law
• International CommercialArbitration
• International Law in U.S. Courts
• International Trade Regulation
• Use of Force in International Law
• Women in International Law


Personal Relationships
• Elder Law
• Family Law
• Health Care Law
• Juvenile Law
• Products Liability
• Torts

Seminars:*
• Law and Psychiatry
• Law and Decision Making


Procedural Courses
• Administrative Law
• Advanced Legal Research
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Applied Mediation Skills and Clinic
• Civil Practice
• Civil Procedure I, II
• Client Counseling
• Conflict of Laws
• Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
• Criminal Procedure: Investigation
• Evidence
• Federal Courts
• Moot Court I, II
• Negotiation Theory and Strategy
• Remedies
• Trial Advocacy I, II

Seminars:*
• Civil Rights
• Comparative Criminal Procedure
• International Law in U.S. Courts
• Jury Instructions
• Labor Arbitration


Property and Intellectual Property
• Advanced Real Estate Transactions
• Advanced Residential Property
• Anatomy of a Patent: The Patent Application Process and Related Issues
• Copyright
• Electronic Media
• Estate Planning
• Intellectual Property Survey
• Land Use Control
• Law of Trade Secrets
• Natural Resources Law
• Patent Law
• Property
• Real Estate Transactions
• Trademark and Unfair Competition
• Trusts and Estates
• Urban Housing and Development
• Urban Issues Symposium

Seminars:*
• Biotechnology and Health
• Intellectual Property and Antitrust
• Music and Copyright
• Trademark


Public Law
• Administrative Law
• Admiralty
• Constitutional Law I, II
• Environmental Law
• First Amendment
• International Human Rights
• International Law
• Land Use Control
• Law and Economics
• Legislation
• Natural Resources Law
• State and Local Government

Seminars:*
• The Founders’ Constitution
• The Presidency and the Constitution
• Women in International Law


Taxation
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Tax
• Estate Planning
• Fiduciary Tax
• International Tax
• Partnership Tax
• Taxation

Seminars:*
• Comparative European Tax Issues
• ERISA and Employee Benefits
• Estate Planning Topics
• Non-Profit Organizations
• State and Local Taxation


Urban Planning and Development
• Administrative Law
• Advanced Real Estate Transactions
• Advanced Residential Property
• Environmental Law
• Land Use Control
• Property
• Real Estate Transactions
• State and Local Government
• Urban Housing and Development
• Urban Issues Symposium

Seminars:*
• Energy, Economics and the Environment
• State and Local Taxation

* Seminars offered for academic credit.

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