Curriculum
During the first year, a student's foundation in basic doctrine, intellectual skills, oral presentation and self-confidence is rooted in the School's curriculum of required first-year courses:
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- Civil Procedure
Examines the structure and function of civil procedure and the requirements of due process of law
- Constitutional Law
Analyzes selected issues concerning judicial review, federalism, separation of powers and individual rights
- Contracts
Examines equitable legal remedies for enforcing contracts, determining what promises are enforceable and analyzing elements of assent
- Criminal Law
Explores the basic principles of substantive criminal law, including the justifications for punishment, the essential elements of offenses, mitigating and exculpating defenses and various forms of criminal liability
- Legislation
Examines the lawmaking process in legislatures, theories and rules of statutory interpretation in the courts, and the relationships among statutory law, administrative law, common law and constitutional law
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Property Law
Undertakes a conceptual analysis of basic property law - Torts
Evaluates the principles of civil recovery for injury, including strict liability, negligence and the intentional torts, with emphasis on the social, economic and moral underpinnings of the doctrines