Explore Your Options
Academics at BU Law are rigorous but rewarding, with your studies guided by a celebrated, accomplished faculty. Your career options are seemingly limitless, with more than 200 courses and seminars offered—one of the widest selections of any law school. Delve into these areas of practice to learn more about your potential career path.
Administrative and Regulatory Law courses consider government regulation of private activity and affects regulated industries, such as banking, insurance, and health care. Public Law concerns the structure of government.
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Courses range from foundational offerings that cover the banking and financial services industries in the United States and across the world to more in-depth classes that focus on specific topics such as hedge funds or charitable organizations.
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Lawyers increasingly need skills in alternative dispute resolution. BU Law offers students a wide array of courses designed to prepare them for proceedings inside and outside the courtroom.
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Civil Rights & Constitutional Law courses cover both traditional legal topics, such as constitutional history and theory, federalism, and judicial review, as well as those that examine legal frameworks through the lens of social identity and social movements.
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Corporate, business, and transactional law is a far-reaching practice area that encompasses all the legal aspects of commercial activity.
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The criminal law program at BU Law encompasses not only foundational criminal procedure and evidence courses but also a wide range of clinical offerings in which students handle actual cases in court.
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The foundational employment and labor law curriculum covers a wide range of issues including affirmative action, religious discrimination, constitutional protections for public-sector workers, and anti-retaliation and whistleblower laws.
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At BU Law, courses on entertainment and sports law delve into subjects ranging from publicity rights and defamation to invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, antitrust principles, and labor law.
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Massachusetts has long been at the forefront of environmental issues, including through litigation brought by the Attorney General’s Office where BU Law students regularly work as interns or externs.
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Foundational courses provide an overview of the case law, statutes, and constitutional underpinnings that shape the government’s role in regulating family life as well as the laws surrounding estate planning and inheritance.
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BU Law offers a unique program addressing the critical legal issues in health today. Located in one of the world’s life sciences epicenters, BU Law’s health law program is ranked #1, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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The BU Law curriculum offers courses on nearly every facet of housing, real estate, and land use, including landlord/tenant rights and responsibilities, environmental and tax implications, and affordable housing development.
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The curriculum at BU Law covers deportation, asylum, naturalization, and citizenship questions and has vast experiential courses, including the International Human Rights Clinic and the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program.
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BU Law offers several foundational courses covering the major components of intellectual property law, including copyright, patent, trademark, unfair competition, and trade secret. It is also the only law school in the country to offer a clinic focused on intellectual property and the related field of privacy and technology law: BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC).
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At BU Law, students can choose from dozens of courses in public international law, which covers the relations between countries; private international law, which deals with cross-border business transactions; and comparative law, which focuses on the laws of other countries.
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Since its founding in 1872, BU Law has offered courses on legal history and jurisprudence, allowing students to grapple with some of the fundamental questions at the heart of legal systems, including the definition of law, its underlying authority, and judicial powers.
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BU Law offers a unique clinic focused on intellectual property and privacy and technology law: the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC). In this clinic, law students work with entrepreneurs from BU and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on legal and regulatory issues.
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Race and the Law courses are broken down into those that take an anti-racist approach to lawyering, exploring ways to produce or sustain racial equity; and courses that examine opinions, statutes, and other legal materials that address issues of race or racism, including civil rights laws.
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BU Law’s top-ranked tax law program offers a broad curriculum that balances tax law theory and its practical application, with plenty of opportunities to specialize in particular areas such as business organizations and transactions, estate planning, wealth management, and international tax.
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