Third-year students may specialize in a particular field of law. To encourage such focus, the school grants specialization documentation to students who complete the requirements of one of seven specializations:

1. Advocacy
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the skills to persuade effectively — in writing and orally — within the procedural, evidentiary, and ethical frameworks that govern litigation.
2. Business Law and Regulation
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the ability to identify and address legal risk in business transactions and regulatory environments.
3. Conflict Resolution
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the skills to resolve disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other non-litigation processes, and to advise clients on when each is appropriate.
4. General Practice
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop breadth across core doctrinal areas and foundational lawyering skills sufficient to serve clients completely in a general practice setting.
5. Law, Inequity, and Structural Exclusion
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the ability to analyze how legal institutions and doctrines create or sustain structural inequity, and to apply that analysis in service of more equitable legal outcomes.
6. Public Law
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop knowledge of constitutional, administrative, and regulatory law and the skills to apply that knowledge in government service, policy advocacy, or public interest practice.
7. Technology and law
   • Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the ability to apply legal reasoning to questions raised by emerging technologies, including issues of intellectual property, data privacy, and platform governance.

A student may receive recognition for fulfilling only one specialization. Each program requires the completion of 14 credit hours, including a writing course, in the designated area.

Courses qualifying for specialization areas are indicated in the Law School Course Offerings. Students wishing to declare a curricular specialization must fill out a Specialization Declaration Form. Declaration forms must be submitted by the last day of the exam period in the term you plan to graduate. An email will be sent in June with instructions on how to print your specialization documentation.

The specialization does NOT appear on transcripts or the Law School Grade Report.