Course Descriptions


Elective Courses The law school makes all reasonable efforts to offer the following electives on a periodic basis but cannot guarantee that each course or seminar will be available to all students who wish to take it during their law school careers. More precise information on the courses and seminars that will be offered in a given semester, including those not listed here, is available from the registrar during the preregistration and general registration periods.
	LAW - 984A Advanced Trial Advocacy: Homicide Prosecution (2 hrs.) This course focuses on a prosecutor’s role in a gang homicide case from the discovery of the victim up to and through prosecution and sentencing of co-defendants. Students are exposed to the day-to-day work of local prosecutors and essential skills and motions filed by prosecutors in the context of a gang homicide case. LAW-508 Criminal Procedure I, LAW-633 Evidence, and one of the following: LAW-684 Criminal Trial Advocacy, LAW-695 Civil Trial Advocacy or Criminal Justice Clinic.