LL.M. Specialization in Critical Race Studies
To be awarded the specialization in Critical Race Studies, students must maintain a B- (2.7) grade average in courses taken for the specialization. Detailed course descriptions are linked in the listings below. Prospective students should bear in mind that, due to curriculum scheduling and faculty availability, not every class listed is taught each year. This is most often true in the case of seminar courses. A sufficient number of courses will be available to enable those students who choose to specialize to satisfy the specialization requirements.
Curriculum
- Required Courses
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Group A
(At least one course is required)
LAW 267Federal Indian Law
LAW 273International Human Rights Law
LAW 287Federal Indian Law II
LAW 331Immigration Law
LAW 338Islamic Jurisprudence
LAW 444Indigenous Peoples in International Law
LAW 463Regional Human Rights Protection: The Inter-American System
LAW 497Critical Issues in Human Rights
LAW 568Reparations for Black Americans: What, Why and How?
LAW 597Place, Race, and Power
LAW 598Recentering International Law: Black Traditions, TWAIL and Other Critical Perspectives
LAW 622Data, Policy & Legal Responses to the Attacks on Critical Race Theory
LAW 653Critical Race Studies Scholarship Workshop
LAW 661Latinx People and the Law
LAW 688Philosophy of Migration Law
LAW 728Tribal Legal Development Clinic
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Group B
(Sum of courses from Groups A and B must equal at least two)
LAW 202Criminal Procedure: Investigations
LAW 260Labor Law & Collective Action
LAW 261Employment Law
LAW 263Employment Discrimination Law
LAW 270Public International Law
LAW 282Education Law & Policy
LAW 301Art and Cultural Property Law
LAW 315American Legal History
LAW 316Disability Law
LAW 317Family Law
LAW 318Law, Gender, and Sexuality
LAW 325Public Benefits Law and Anti-Poverty Policy
LAW 363Nonprofit Law and Policy
LAW 376Law and Dissent
LAW 383Political Asylum and Refugee Law
LAW 389Prison Law and Policy
LAW 405Preventive Detention
LAW 411Liberty & Equality: LGBTQ & Reproductive Rights
LAW 415Financial Punishment
LAW 417Problem Solving in the Public Interest
LAW 429Capital Punishment in America
LAW 459Law and Gender: Equality, Rights, Citizenship
LAW 493Housing Law and Policy
LAW 496Race, Racism, and Law
LAW 502Borders, Punishment, and Control
LAW 509Rights, Secrecy, and the Limits of Public Interest Litigation After 9/11
LAW 510Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts
LAW 529Criminal Procedure: Policing Poverty
LAW 533The Philosophy of Prisons and Punishment
LAW 535The Role of Public Interest Lawyering in Policy and Organizing Campaigns
LAW 537Low-Wage Workers
LAW 542Race, Sexuality, and the Law
LAW 566Laws of War (International Humanitarian Law)
LAW 593Preventive Detention
LAW 609The American Civil Justice Crisis
LAW 619Environmental Justice Law
LAW 655Feminist Legal Theory
LAW 671Comparative Education: Law and Policy
LAW 712Street Law--Youth & Education
LAW 730Veterans Justice Clinic
LAW 734Housing Justice Clinic
LAW 773Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic
LAW 786Pretrial Justice Clinic
LAW 792Immigrant Family Legal Clinic
LAW 838Civil Rights Litigation Practicum
LAW 941Law of the US - Mexico Border
LAW 952Re-envisioning the Lawyer’s Role: Trauma Informed Lawyering and Restorative/ Transformative Justice