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Skills and Litigation Advocacy

SKILLS AND LITIGATION ADVOCACY COURSES – FACULTY RECOMMENDATIONS

Administration of Criminal Justice Externship *

* Advanced Legal Research

Advanced Evidence

* Alternative Dispute Resolution

* Appellate Advocacy (Moot Court)

**Appellate Advocacy Seminar

Business Planning and Drafting

Carr Intraschool Trial Advocacy Competition Civil Rights Clinic

Complex Litigation

Employment Relations Externship

Environmental Law Moot Court Competition * Evidence

Federal Taxation Externship

Federal Jurisdiction

Immigration Law Clinic

Interschool Competitions

Judicial Externship

Judicial Process Seminar

Legislative Process Externship

* * Mediation: Theory and Practice

Moot Court Board

* * Negotiations

Nonprofit Organizations and Drafting

* * Pretrial Skills

Prison Law Clinic

Public Interest Law Externship

Scientific Evidence

Supreme Court Simulation Seminar

* Trial Practice

Trial Practice Honors Board

UCDC Externship Program

* Basic Core: Core advocacy, skills and litigation courses identified as essential by the law faculty teaching in this area (see below) for all J.D. students (preferably taken in the second year):

Alternative Dispute Resolution OR Negotiations, Evidence

Note: These courses assume no prior coursework in advocacy or litigation.

Professional Responsibility is an essential course in all disciplines. It provides the "rules of the road" that lawyers must follow, regardless of their area of expertise.

* * Expanded Core: Core courses (in addition to the Basic Core above) recommended by the law faculty teaching in this area for students interested in advocacy, skills and litigation:

Advanced Legal Research

Appellate Advocacy (Moot Court) Appellate Advocacy Seminar Mediation: Theory and Practice Pretrial Skills

Selected Clinic or Externship Trial Practice

Additional advocacy, skills and litigation courses as schedules perm it.

Advocacy, Skills and Litigation Faculty: Professors Amar, Bjorklund, Florey, Imwinkelried, Jaime, Joh, Johns, Jorjani, Joslin, Lewis, Lin, Mendez, Murphy, Perez, Perschbacher, Pruitt, Reynoso, Shestowsky, Simmons, White

Note: The above recommendations are made by the Law Faculty teaching in the area of advocacy, skills and litigation, and not the Law Faculty as a whole.