Public Law: Curriculum & Courses

OPEN ENROLLMENT COURSES

  • American Constitutional History
  • American Legal History
  • Constitution and Criminal Investigations
  • Constitutional Law
  • Constitutional Law 2: Speech and Equality
  • Education Law
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Indian Law
  • Law and Religion
  • Law of Privacy
  • Legislation
  • Local Government Law
  • Military Law

Contemporary Legal Issues Courses (Variable Content)

  • Aviation Law
  • Election Law
  • Law and Social Change
  • Milwaukee Street Law Project
  • Readings in the First Amendment
  • Special Education Law
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court and the State Constitution

SEMINARS

  • Advanced Constitutional Law
  • Advanced Issues in the First Amendment
  • Judging and the Judicial Process
  • Judicial Decision-Making
  • The Supreme Court
  • Wisconsin Legal History

Selected Topics Seminars (Variable Content)

  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Perspectives on the Right to Vote
  • Race and the Law

WORKSHOPS

Selected Topics Workshops (Variable Content)

  • Using Statutes Skillfully as Advocate and Counselor

Click here to access course descriptions.  Please note that course listings are subject to change and not every course is taught each year.

ASSOCIATED CLINICS, JUDICIAL INTERNSHIPS AND SUPERVISED FIELDWORK PROGRAMS

Judicial Internship - Trial

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • United States Magistrate Judges for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Milwaukee County Circuit Courts

Judicial Internship - Appellate

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • Wisconsin Court of Appeals (Districts I and II)

ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH

  • ALR: Federal Law
  • ALR: Wisconsin Law