This course covers the substantive and procedural laws surrounding the criminal adjudication process, including the right to counsel, preliminary appearance and hearings, pre-conviction release, and more.
Criminal Procedure: Investigation
This upper-level Core Curriculum course deals with the laws, regulations and policies governing investigations of criminal matters.
Criminal Procedure: Investigation—in Practice
This experiential course explores many of the theoretical and practical fundamentals of the 4th and 5th Amendment Criminal Procedure law.
Criminal Prosecution Clinic – (New York County)
In the Criminal Prosecution Clinic – New York County, students investigate and prosecute misdemeanor cases as Student Assistant District Attorneys at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Critical Perspectives on Race, Law, and Equality
This course provides students with a deep analysis of the statutes, case law, and policies related to civil rights in the United States by examining federal civil rights laws and the provision that creates a federal cause of action to remedy violations of rights.
Deposition Skills
Students in this experiential learning course will learn the purpose of depositions, how depositions fit into an overall plan for case theory and development, and the rules governing the conduct of depositions.
Dispute Resolution Processes
This course addresses the skills involved in domestic commercial dispute identification, management, and resolution using methods other than litigation, and, specifically, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Domestic Violence and the Law
This course explores the response of the legal system to the problem of domestic violence, through state and federal criminal laws against domestic violence, including the federal Violence Against Women Act.
Drafting: Contracts
This course teaches students the skills needed to draft contracts that effectuate clients’ needs and anticipate potential legal problems.
Drafting: Corporate Documents
This course teaches the skills needed to draft corporate contracts and documents that effectuate clients’ needs and anticipate potential legal problems.