To earn a certificate in public interest law, students must complete 6 credits from the list of core courses and earn a total of 15 credits from any combination of the two lists below.

For a list of current course offerings, please visit links from the Courses section of this Bulletin.

Core Courses

• Appellate Clinic
• Children's Rights Clinic
• Civil Rights, Community Justice & Mediation Clinic
• Congressional & Administrative Law Externship
• Criminal Justice Clinic
• First Amendment Clinic
• Government Lawyering Externship
• Immigration Clinic
• Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
• International Justice & Conflict Resolution Externship
• Judicial Clerkship Externship
• Lawyering Practice Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
• Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
• New York Regulatory & Business Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
• Post-Conviction Relief Clinical Practicum
• Prosecution Clinic
• Semester in Practice Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
• Supervised Practicum (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
• Veterans Law Clinic
• Wrongful Conviction Clinic
• Any other externship in which the student is placed with a nonprofit or government entity as determined by the Dean of Clinical Education

Elective Courses

• Administrative Law
• Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
• American Indian Law
• American Indian Societies, Cultures & Values
• Antitrust
• Causation in Employment Discrimination Law
• Children & the Law
• Comparative Law
• Comparative Refugee Law
• Consumer Transactions
• Crime Policy and the Growth of Incarceration Seminar
• Criminal Justice Seminar
• Criminal Justice Reform Movement Seminar
• Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
• Criminal Procedure: Investigation
• Critical Race Theory
• Digital Civil Liberties Seminar
• Disability Law
• Domestic Violence & the Law
• Education Equity, Equality & Reform: K-12
• Employee Benefits: ERISA & Tax
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Law
• Employment Law Seminar
• Energy Law & Regulation
• Environmental Law
• Environmental Litigation Seminar
• European Union Law
• Families in Dissolution
• Family Law
• Federal Courts
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Good Society Seminar
• Health Law
• Immigration Law
• Information Privacy Law
• International Courts & Tribunals: Practice & Procedure
• International Criminal Justice and Human Rights Practice
• International Criminal Law
• International Human Rights Law
• International Intellectual Property Law Seminar
• International Law
• International Money Laundering, Corruption & Terrorism
• Introduction to Climate Change Law and Policy
• Jurisprudence Seminar
• Labor Law
• Land Use and Racial Justice
• Land Use Law
• Legislation
• Local Government Law
• National Security Law
• Natural Resources Law
• New Directions in Housing Law & Policy Seminar
• Nonprofit Organizations Planning & Drafting
• Pretrial Practice: Criminal
• Race and the Law
• Race, Public Education & the Law Seminar
• Race, Religion & the Family Seminar
• Refugee & Asylum Law
• Regulating Sex: Historical & Cultural Encounters Seminar
• Religion & the Constitution
• Select Topics in Juvenile Justice
• Seminar on Social Movements, Work and Law
• Sexuality & the Law: Theory & Practice
• Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
• Slavery Seminar
• Social Media and Content Regulation
• Special Topics in Reproductive Justice: The Abortion Right
• Speech, Press & the Constitution
• State & Local Government
• The American Presidency Seminar
• The Law of the 14th Amendment
• Title IX: Sex Discrimination in Education
• Voting Rights Seminar
• War, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Seminar
• Workers' Compensation

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