This field placement and co-requisite seminar on state and local government expose students to the practice of municipal law.
New York Practice
This course covers the conduct of civil litigation in the courts of New York.
Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic
In this year-long clinic, students provide transactional legal assistance to nonprofit organizations and small businesses.
Nonprofit Organizations
This course examines the structure, governance, operation, and regulation of various charitable organizations from the perspective of counseling, or even establishing, such entities.
Organized and White Collar Crime
This course focuses on the investigation, prosecution, and defense of today’s organized and white-collar criminal cases.
Persuasion
This writing and research course provides students with the opportunity to develop their uses of language, rhetorical devices, and other techniques to persuade others.
Policing the Police
This course examines the theories and practical realities of police regulation, exploring assumptions about the police function, policy implications for criminal law, the balance between police power and constitutional protections, and more.
Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic
The Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic provides an opportunity for upper-level students to represent clients in post-conviction matters under the direct supervision of a faculty member.
Power Broker and Modern Housing and Economic Development Law
This seminar uses Robert Caro’s The Power Broker as a case study through which students explore how modern New York was built.
Practicing Legal History
Through studying the development of legal ideas such as privacy and citizenship and institutions ranging from philanthropies to municipal agencies, students will improve their grasp of American law today.