This course is focused on driving student achievement on the bar exam by working to build critical exam skills.
Introduction to the MEE and MPT
This course covers areas of law most commonly tested on the UBE and provides students with the opportunity to practice drafting essay answers to MEE questions and completing MPTs.
Judicial Externship Placement and Seminar
This course includes a placement with a federal judge or a state court judge in New York City or surrounding jurisdictions with a related seminar.
Juvenile Rights Law Clinic
Under the supervision of experienced faculty, students fully engage all facets of client-centered juvenile practice. Together with a multidisciplinary team, students represent children in child welfare matters filed in Manhattan Family Court.
Labor Relations Law
This course examines the legal and regulatory framework governing relationships between private-sector employers and their employees engaged in collective action.
Land Use Regulation
This course covers the jurisprudence, regulations, and policies related to the use of land in the U.S.
Landlord and Tenant Law
This course examines the relationship between the landlord and the tenant.
Law and Economics
Law and economics is one of the most influential schools of thought in modern law. The ideas propounded by the economic analysis of law are gaining increasing traction in court decisions and in legal policy. This course will examine the major contributions of law and economics in contract, tort, and property, as well as in other areas of law that may not initially appear to be amenable to economic reasoning.
Law and Religion: National, International, and Comparative Perspectives
This course focuses on the intersection of law and religion through the lenses of legal philosophy and history and constitutional, comparative, and international law.
Law and the Good Society
In this course, students will read classics of Utopian literature and explore case studies of attempts to build utopian societies.