JD Certificate in Public Interest Law
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)
- Urban Revitalization Clinical Practicum
- Other Externship approved by dean of Clinical Education
Elective Courses
- Administrative Law
- American Indian Law
- American Indian Societies, Cultures & Values
- Antitrust
- Children & the Law
- Comparative Law
- Consumer Transactions
- Criminal Justice Seminar
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
- Criminal Procedure: Investigation
- 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
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Good Society Seminar
- Health Law
- Immigration Law
- Information Privacy Law
- International Courts & Tribunals: Practice & Procedure
- International Criminal Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Intellectual Property Law Seminar
- International Law
- International Money Laundering, Corruption & Terrorism
- Jurisprudence
- Labor Law
- Land Use Law
- Legislation
- National Security Law
- National Resources Law
- Nonprofit Organizations Planning & Drafting
- Pretrial Practice: Criminal
- Race, Public Education & the Law Seminar
- Race, Religion & the Family Seminar
- Refugee & Asylum Law
- Regulating Sex: Historical & Cultural Encounters Seminar
- Religion & the Constitution
- Sexuality & the Law: Theory & Practice
- Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
- Slavery Seminar
- Speech, Press & the Constitution
- State & Local Government
- The 14th Amendment: Equal Protection & Due Process
- Voting Rights Seminar
- War Crimes & Tribunals Seminar