This course provides students with a basic understanding of drafting various types of litigation documents, such as motions, discovery requests, and trial memos.
Drafting: Real Estate Documents
This writing and research course focuses on real estate law and practice and teaches students to draft documents used in commercial real estate transactions.
Drafting: Editing Process
This course teaches the necessary skills to edit legal writing and create a final product that is clear, precise, and effective.
Education Law and Policy
This course focuses on the intersection of public schools, K-12 educational policy, and the law, exploring the crucial role education plays in sustaining a democratic society.
Family Law Journal — Editorial Staff
In this co-curricular course, NYLS students are responsible for editing and source-checking each article that is selected for publication in The Family Law Quarterly (FLQ).
Finding Your Purpose
This course introduces students to a framework for identifying their individual strengths, motivations, values, and interests, and understanding how these intersect with their professional identity.
Gender and the Law
This course provides an overview of gender justice issues, examining how the legal system shapes — and is shaped by — gender.
Gender in American Legal History
This upper-level, seminar course focuses on the legal and cultural status of gender in American history.
International Criminal Law
This course provides a broad overview of the extensive recent developments in International Criminal Law, commonly referred to as the law of atrocity.
International Human Rights Law
This course surveys the theory and practice of international human rights law.