Concentration Requirements

Core Requirements:

A. Legal Foundation

• Immigration Law or Introduction to Immigration Law

B. Advocacy Skills

Either:

• Civil Litigation Practice I and Civil Litigation Practice II

Or two of the following:

• Advanced Trial Advocacy
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Law & Practice
• Appellate Advocacy
• California Civil Procedure
• Civil Discovery
• Civil Rights Litigation Practicum
• Deposition Practice
• Fact Investigation
• Legal Drafting
• Trial Advocacy

C. Advanced Foundation

One of the following:

• Administrative Law or Introduction to Administrative Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Federal Courts

Required Electives:

One of the following:

• Administrative Law/Introduction to Administrative Law/Federal Courts/Criminal Procedure (if not taken for the Advanced Foundation Requirement above)
• Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic Seminar
• Human Trafficking Seminar
• Immigration Consequences of Crime
• Business Immigration Law
• Approved Directed Research on an immigration topic
• The Thirteenth Amendment, Racial Justice, and Human Trafficking

Experiential Opportunities:

One of the following:

• Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic
• Civil Rights Litigation Clinic
• Employment Rights Clinic
• Worker’s Rights Clinic
• Approved Immigration Externship, examples include:
  • Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
  • Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
  • Public Counsel Immigrants' Rights Project
  • Catholic Legal Immigration Network
  • United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review