Concentration in Advocacy and Dispute Resolution
Curriculum
Students in the Concentration are required to take Evidence and Trial Practice during the first semester of their second year, and choose among Advocacy Clinic, Mediation Clinic & Alternative Dispute Resolution, Prosecutorial Externship, or Public Defender Externship during their third year.
Students in the Concentration are also required to take any combination of the following courses, equaling at least twelve hours, during their 2nd and 3rd years:
• Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure
• Advanced Trial Practice
• Interviewing & Counseling
• Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation
• Investigatory Criminal Procedure
• Negotiation & Dispute Resolution
• Remedies
Students electing a Concentration in Advocacy and Dispute Resolution may not take any of the above courses on a Satisfactory/No Credit basis.
Note: Students should note the obvious overlap in course content among the following courses: Interviewing & Counseling; Negotiation and Dispute Resolution; and Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation. Assuming all three courses continue to be offered, students completing Interviewing and Counseling and/or Negotiation and Dispute Resolution could not also take the Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation course, and vice versa.
* Issues in the Law is included to permit the development and inclusion of additional litigation-related courses. An Issues in the Law course must be approved by the Dean or the Dean's designee as satisfying the requirements of the concentration. An example of an "Issues" course can be found here.
