In this clinic, students will assist clients with estate planning, adult guardianships, and/or needs-based public benefits, and work in partnership with community members to provide education and develop advocacy related to the issues of aging, illness, and special needs.
Employee Compensation and Benefits
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the key laws that apply and shape the design and operation of employee benefits and executive compensation.
Entrepreneurship for Social Change
This course considers how lawyers can use non-litigation approaches to effect change through organizing, community development, and generally through the creation of new institutions.
Environmental Law and Policy
This course is designed for students who wish to understand how the law protects the environment, and who wish to litigate environmental issues.
Estate Planning
This course introduces students to central concepts in wealth transfer tax and income taxation of estates and trusts, and it covers pre-death and post-mortem planning and basic document drafting.
Family Law
This substantive, foundational course deals with the laws, regulations, and policies impacting the family and its relationship to the government.
Federal Income Tax: Corporate
This upper-level, substantive course focuses on the laws, regulations, and policies impacting formation, operation, and dissolution of corporate entities.
Federal Income Tax: Individual
This upper-level course is an intensive introduction to the basic principles of federal income taxation and of statutory construction.
Federal Income Tax: Partnership
This upper-level, substantive course focuses on the laws, regulations, and policies that impact the formation, operation, and dissolution of partnerships.
Federal Income Tax: Trusts and Estates
This course focuses on Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code and introduces students to the rules that govern the income taxation of trusts and estates and their beneficiaries.