Graduation Requirements

 

COURSES REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION

1L Courses

Civil Procedure;  Legal Analysis, Writing & Research 1 and 2

Constitutional Law;  Property

Contracts;  Torts

Criminal Law

Upper Level Requirements

Evidence;  A Process Elective **

 A Public Law Elective ***

The Law Governing Lawyers;  An Advanced Legal Research Course

Trusts & Estates;  A Workshop

A Perspectives Elective * ; A Seminar

 

* Perspectives courses include American Constitutional History; American Legal History; Comparative Law; Comparative Transitional Justice; Federal Indian Law;  Law and Popular Culture; the Law of Sexual Orientation;  Law, Social Science, and the Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law & Economics; Law & Religion; Parent, Child & State; Military Law; and Quantitative Methods. Not all courses are offered every year.

** Process elective courses include Administrative Law, Advanced Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Process, Family Law and ADR, Federal Criminal Procedure, and Legislation. Not all courses are offered every year.

*** Public Law electives include The Constitution & Criminal Investigations; Constitutional Law 2: Speech & Equality; Education Law; Federal Courts; Media Law; Local Government Law; the Law of Privacy; and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  Not all courses are offered every year.

Click here for a link to course descriptions.

See Article 200 of the Marquette University Law School Academic Regulations

for additional degree requirements.