Advocacy

 

The School of Law  provides its students with ample opportunity to obtain and develop litigation skills.

To the end, students must successfully complete at least two credits in a course or credit activity in which the student assumes the role of a client representative. This requirement may be fulfilled by:

• Participation in a clinic
• Participation in an interscholastic advocacy team (e.g., Moot Court competition)

• Completing any of the following courses: 

  • Advanced Trial Advocacy
  • Appellate Advocacy Workshop
  • Bench Trial Advocacy
  • Family Law Workshop
  • Litigation Process
  • Evidence Law Reform Seminar
  • Trial Advocacy

In addition, the following courses may satisfy either the workshop writing requirement OR the advocacy requirement (but not both):

•  Appellate Advocacy Worksho

  * Appellate Practice Clinic 

  * Civil Advocacy Clinic I

• • Community Development Clinic I
  • Family Law Workshop
  • Family Law Clinic I
  • Family Mediation Clinic
  • Immigrant Rights Clinic I 

Note:  Students who complete Evidence Law Reform Seminar have the option of having that course satisfy either one scholarly upper-level writing requirement or the upper-level advocacy requirement (but not both of these requirements). Students who complete Civil Advocacy Clinic I and II (for 2 credits), Community Development Clinic I and II  (for 2 credits), Family Law Clinic I and II (for 2 credits), or Immigrant Rights Clinic I and II (for 2 credits) can receive credit for both the upper level advocacy requirement and one upper level workshop writing requirement.