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Public Service Law Concentration Track

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Program Requirements

The Public Service Law Concentration Track includes one required course, an advanced writing project, a public service externship or clinic, volunteer hours with a student organization or other public interest legal setting, and fifteen credits chosen from a variety of electives.

Students must complete:

  1. E507 Access to Justice Seminar
  2. A significant writing project on a public service law subject. This may include seminar papers, Law E500 Advanced Writing projects, or papers accepted for publication in an accredited journal.
  3. A clinic offered by the UWLS Clinical Law Program or An eight credit (minimum) externship approved by the Public Service Law Concentration Track advisor.
  4. A minimum of 20 hours of unpaid volunteer service for which they do not receive academic credit. The hours may be earned through public service projects sponsored by one or more law school student organizations or in a legal work setting approved by the Public Service Law Concentration Track advisor.
  5. At least 12 credits from the following list of elective courses:
    1. A507 Administrative Law (4)
    2. A514 Publicly Held Corporations (3-4)
    3. A548 Civil Rights (4)
    4. A565 American Indian Law (4)
    5. A577 Immigration Law (4)
    6. A592 Constitutional Law II: The Fourteenth and First Amendments: Equal Protection, Fundamental Rights, Due Process of Law, Freedom of Expression and Religion (4)
    7. A591 Freedom of Expression (4-5)
    8. B500 Civil Procedure II (3)
    9. B507 Federal Courts (4)
    10. B512 Legislation & Public Policy (2-4)
    11. B515 Criminal Procedure (5)
    12. B596 Human Rights (4)
    13. E525 Poverty Law (4)
  6. Complete two additional courses out of one of the following focus areas:
    1. Civil and Human Rights focus:
    2. Child Advocacy focus:
    3. Disability Rights focus:
    4. Criminal Justice focus:
    5. Poverty law focus:
    6. Government service focus:
    7. Employment equity focus:
    8. International rights focus:

The following skills courses, while not required, are highly recommended. These courses help develop essential lawyering skills for public service: