Concentration Courses

A. Required Courses [5 units]

• Social Justice Lawyering Concentration Core Seminar (2)
• Constitutional Law II (3—4)

B. Distributional Requirements

At least 1 class in each of the three following categories:

1. Substantial clinical or guided lawyering experience [5—12 units]
   • Civil Justice Clinic — Community Economic Development Clinic (8)
   • Civil Justice Clinic — Individual Representation Clinic (8)
   • Civil Justice Mediation Clinic (6)
   • Civil Justice Clinic – Social Change Lawyering: Community Group Advocacy Clinic (8)
   • Criminal Practice Clinic (12)
   • Environmental Law Clinic (8)
   • Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (6)
   • Legal Externship Program (5)
   • Legislation Clinic (8)
   • Local Government Clinic (5)
   • Refugee & Human Rights Clinic (6)
2. Negotiation/Dispute Resolution [3—4 units]
   • Negotiation & Mediation: Process & Practice (3—4)
   • Negotiation & Settlement: Process & Practice (3)
3. Exploration of race [2—3 credits]
   • American Indian Law (3)
   • Asian Pacific Americans & the Law Seminar (2)
   • Critical Race Theory and American Constitutionalism (3)
   • Critical Race Theory Seminar (2)
   • Law & the Japanese American Internment Seminar (2)
   • Race, Racism & American Law (3)

C. Qualifying Electives [not less than 2 courses and not less than 6 units, except for students who complete a 12—unit clinic, who must only complete 1 qualifying elective of not less than 2 units]

Note: Classes preceded by an asterisk cannot be counted as a qualifying elective if they are being used to fulfill a distributional requirement.

I. Courses and GPA Seminars

• Administrative Law (3)
• Advanced Criminal Law Seminar: Issues in Criminal Defense (2)
• Advanced Dispute Resolution: Culture, Identity & Discrimination (2)
• Advanced Legislative Process (2)
• Advanced Negotiation: Multi—Party, Multi—Issue & Group Processes (3)
• ∗American Indian Law (3)
• American West: Law, Culture & the Environment (2)
• Animal Law (2)
• Antitrust (3 or 4)
• ∗Asian Pacific Americans & the Law Seminar (2)
• Biodiversity Law (3)
• Bioethics, Law and Healthcare Decision—making Seminar (2)
• California Local Government (2)
• California Water Resources (3)
• Capital Punishment Seminar (2)
• Child Maltreatment in Context: Seminar (2)
• Civil Rights Seminar (2)
• Class Actions Seminar (2)
• Climate Change: Law, Policy and Business Seminar (2)
• Community Economic Development Seminar (2)
• Comparative Antitrust Law (2 or 3)
• Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar (2)
• Comparative Regulation Seminar (2)
• Complex Litigation (3)
• Constitution of the Family Seminar (2)
• Constitutional Law II (3)
• Constitutional Theory Seminar (2)
• Consumer Transactions (3)
• Corrections & Criminal Justice: Legal Policy, Practice and Reform Seminar (2)
• Courts as a Political Actor Seminar (2)
• Criminal Procedure (3 or 4)
• Criminal Punishment Seminar (2)
• ∗Critical Race Theory Seminar (2)
• Current Problems in Employment Seminar (2)
• Current State & Local Government Problems Seminar (2)
• Data Privacy (2)
• Disability Law (2)
• Domestic Violence (3)
• Employment Discrimination (first—year statutory or upper—class course) (3)
• Employment Law Seminar: Work/Family Issues (3)
• Environmental Law (first—year statutory course) (3)
• Environmental Law Seminar (2)
• Federal Courts (3)
• Federal & Interstate Water Resources (3)
• Food & Drug Law (3)
• Gender and the Law (3)
• Health Care Finance, Administration & Policy Law (3)
• Immigration Law (first—year statutory and upper—class course) (3)
• International Environmental Law Seminar (2)
• International Criminal Law (3)
• International Human Rights (3)
• International Human Rights Seminar (2)
• International War Crimes Prosecution Seminar (2)
• Intersection of Human Rights, Economic Development and Intellectual Property Seminar (2)
• Issues in Public and Global Health (3)
• Juvenile Justice Seminar (2)
• Labor Law (3)
• Land Trusts and Conservation Easements Seminar (2)
• Land Use Regulation (3)
• ∗Law & the Japanese American Internment Seminar (2)
• Law of Lending (2 or 3)
• Law of the Employment Relationship (3)
• Law, Psychiatry & the Mental Health System (2)
• Legal History of Immigrants in the United States Seminar (2)
• Legal Implications of Climate Change Seminar (2)
• Legislative Process (3)
• Litigating Class Action Employment Cases Seminar (2)
• Modern Bioethics: From Nuremburg to the “Octomom” and Beyond (3 or 4)
• Non—Profit Organizations (3)
• Post—Convictions Remedies Seminar (2)
• Prosecuting International Price—Fixing Cartels Seminar (2)
• Psychiatry & Law Seminar (2)
• Public Finance Seminar (2)
• Public Health & Homelessness (2)
• Public Interest Law Seminar (2)
• Public Land & Natural Resources (3)
• Public Policy Advocacy Seminar (2)
• ∗Race, Racism & American Law (3)
• Refugee Law & Policy (3)Remedies (3)
• Reparation for Injustices: Domestic and International Seminar (2)
• Sexuality and the Law (2)
• Sociology of the Criminal Justice System Seminar (2)
• Special Education Law Seminar (2)
• State and Local Government Law ( 3)
• State and Local Taxation (3)
• State Constitutional Law Seminar (2)
• Takings and the Environment Seminar (2)
• Tax Policy Seminar (2)
• Terrorism and the Law (2)
• Theoretical Criminology (2)
• Water Resources Seminar (2)
• Wrongful Convictions Seminar (2)

II. Clinics and Externships

• ∗Civil Justice Clinic — Community Economic Development Clinic (8)
• ∗Civil Justice Clinic — Individual Representation Clinic (8)
• ∗Civil Justice Mediation Clinic (6)
• ∗Civil Justice Clinic — Social Change Lawyering: Community Group Advocacy Clinic (8)
• ∗Criminal Practice Clinic (12)
• ∗Current Issues in Criminal Practice and Criminal Practice Externship (5—6)
• ∗Environmental Law Clinic (8)
• ∗Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (6)
• ∗Legal Externship Program (4—5)
• ∗Legislation Clinic (8)
• ∗Local Government Clinic (6)
• ∗Refugee & Human Rights Clinic (6)
• ∗Workers' Rights Clinic (3)