Core Requirements:
Students will take at least one of the following courses for a minimum of three units.
- Administrative Law or Introduction to Administrative Law
- Civil Rights Litigation Seminar
- Loyola Social Justice Clinic (participate in a clinic and complete required coursework)
- Certain other 1L elective courses may qualify. Please contact the Faculty Adviser to confirm.
Writing:
Students must select for their two-unit Upper Division Writing Requirement (UDWR) a topic related to Public Interest Law. This may be accomplished by selecting a seminar or other UDWR class from the list of Public Interest Law electives (e.g., Civil Rights Litigation Practicum) or by writing a law review article or directed research paper on a topic approved by the Concentration Adviser.
Electives:
Students must also take enough electives to reach a minimum of 15 units for the Concentration as a whole. Thus, in addition to the core, experiential, and writing requirements, students will take enough electives to reach a minimum of 15 units for the Concentration as a whole. Although all courses are not offered every semester, approved electives include:
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Criminal Litigation Skills
- Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law (4 units)
- Animal Law
- Appellate Advocacy
- Bail-to-Jail: The Criminal Adjudicatory Process (3 units)
- Civil Litigation Practice I
- Civil Litigation Practice II
- Civil Rights Litigation Practicum
- Consumer Law
- Critical Race Theory
- Criminal Law Reform: Theory & Practice
- Cross Examination Intensive Workshop
- Death Penalty Law Seminar
- Directed Research (on approved topic)
- Disability Rights Law
- Education Advocacy Seminar
- Education Law
- Election Law
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Employment Law
- Environmental Law
- Fact Investigation
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- First Amendment Survey
- First Amendment Seminar
- Habeas Corpus Litigation Seminar
- Hate Speech Seminar
- Health Care Organizations
- Housing Law
- Human Trafficking Seminar
- Immigration Law
- Immigration Law and the Border Seminar
- Innovation and Inequality
- International Human Rights Practicum
- Introduction to International Law
- Introduction to Negotiations
- Labor Law, Alt-Labor and the Gig Economy
- Law, Algorithms, and Justice
- Law and Genocide
- Law and Sexuality
- Law Review (on approved topic)
- Legal Drafting
- Local Government and Environment Seminar
- Mediation or Mediation Advocacy
- Mental Disabilities Law Seminar
- Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Oversight and Law Enforcement
- Planning for the Elderly and Disabled
- Police and Prison Abolition
- Race, Class, and Criminal Justice
- Racial Justice and Public Defense
- Sexual Orientation and the Law Seminar
- Social Change Lawyering: Lobbying, Litigation, Media & More
- Special Education Law and Advocacy Law and Practice
- State and Municipal Government Law
- The Asian American Legal Experience
- The Strategy of Litigation
- Trial Advocacy
- Wrongful Conviction Seminar (4 units)
- Voting Rights and Election Law
- Youth Education Law and Practice
In addition, completion of any Loyola Social Justice Clinic and required coursework for the clinic also counts as an elective. If a course is not listed here but you believe it should qualify for elective credit, please contact the Faculty Adviser for approval prior to registering for the course.
Experiential Requirement:
Students will earn at least four units of clinic or externship credit in a functioning public interest practice environment
- Working at one of Loyola’s on-campus clinics
- Externship in a practice setting as a part of a two-semester practicum course (ex. Civil Rights Litigation Seminar)
- An individually arranged externship with a non-governmental, non-profit law office
- Civil Rights Litigation Externship