Courses

Sun May 11 2008 23:27:23

- Updated: 02/07/2008

CoursesThis list provides links to brief descriptions of courses that have been recently or are frequently offered. To select a course description, click on the appropriate link below. More detailed course descriptions may be found by referring to the Academic Schedules.

First Year Courses As is the case in most law schools, the first year of law study at The University of Arizona includes the study of foundational areas of law upon which later study is built and entirely prescribed. The heart of a student's first year at the College of Law is the Small Section Program. In the first semester of the first year, each student is assigned to a Small Section (approximately 25 to 30 students), typically in one of three substantive first year courses: Contracts, Torts or Civil Procedure. This is combined with a practice lab in the same subject, which introduces students to some of the tasks of lawyering in context. Other classes, usually classes of 50, 75 or 100, are formed by combining two or more small sections. The required first-year courses are:

Constitutional Law I (Law 606)
Contracts (Law 600)
Criminal Procedure (Law 602)
Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure (Law 601a-601b)
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (Law 603h)
Practice Labs (Law 603c, d and e )
Property (Law 605)
Torts (Law 604c-604d)

Required Second or Third Year CoursesAfter completion of the first year, the remaining curriculum is almost entirely elective, with only three remaining requirements: Evidence, a Legal Profession course, and the completion of the Substantial Paper Requirement.

Evidence (Law 608)
The Legal Profession (Law 609)
Substantial Paper Seminar (Advanced Legal Writing Seminar) (Law 696n)

Second and Third Year Elective CoursesThe remainder of the curriculum is wholly elective. Students have the opportunity to choose from a wide selection of course offerings in a variety of subject matter areas. Elective offerings change from year to year depending on a variety of factors including developments in the law, society, and the legal profession, as well as changes in the composition of the faculty and visiting faculty. Below is a list of all elective offerings from fall 2004 through fall 2006.

Administrative Law (Law 621)
Advanced Legal Research (Law 689)

Advanced Trial Advocacy (Law 645b)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (Law 696n)
American Legal History (The Colorado River) (Law 625)

Antitrust Law (Law 618)
Ares Fellows (Law 695i)

ASUA Legal Service Interviewing (Law 695j)

Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy(Law 663)

Capital Punishment (696e)
Case Studies in Public Interest (Law 681a)
Child Advocacy Clinic (Law 696c)
Civil Rights (Law 695l)
Clinical Programs (Law 696c & d)
Commercial Transactions Seminar (696w)
Community Property (Law 639)
Comparative Commercial Law (Law 697p)
Congressional Internship (Law 693)
Comparative Law on Indigenous Peoples (696n)
Constitution, Government and the Law of Arizona (Law 697d)
Constitutional Law II (Law 615)