Course List
Descriptions, A-B
- Administrative Law (LW 780; 3 hours)
- Admiralty and Maritime Law (LW 735; 3 hours)
- Adoption (LW 887; 2 hours)
- Advanced Evidence: Expert Witnesses (LW 737; 1 hour)
- Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar (LW 954; 2 hours)
- Advanced Legal Research (LW 800; 2 hours)
- Advanced Natural Resources Law (LW 774; 2-3 hours)
- Advanced Oral Argument (LW 859; 1-2 hours)
- Advanced Trial Advocacy (LW 724; 2 hours)
- Agricultural Law (LW 706; 3 hours)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (LW 753; 3 hours)
- Antitrust (LW 782; 3 hours)
- Appellate Practice (LW 767; 2 hours)
- Arbitration (LW 854; 2 hours)
- Art Law (LW 924; 2 hours)
- Artificial Intelligence & Law (LW 792; 2 hours)
- Barbados: Climate Change Law and Climate Justice (LW XX; 2 hours)
- Business Associations (LW 703; 4 hours)
Descriptions, C
- Capital Punishment Seminar (LW 822; 2 hours)
- Child Advocacy Training (LW 913; 1-2 hours)
- Children in the Law (LW 885; 2 hours)
- Civil Procedure I (LW 863; 4 hours)
- Civil Procedure II (LW 868; 2 hours)
- Civil Rights Litigation (LW 760; 2 hours)
- Client Counseling (Competition) (LW 825; 1-2 hours)
- Climate Change Crisis and the Law (LW 891; 2 hours)
- Clinic: Advanced Litigation (LW 756D; 1-3 hours)
- Clinic: Advanced Transactional (LW 911D; 1-3 hours)
- Clinic: Litigation (LW 756; 4-5 hours)
- Clinic: Transactional (LW 911; 4-5 hours)
- Collaborative Law (LW 931; 1-2 hours)
- Commercial Law (LW 870; 4 hours)
- Commercial Leasing (LW 871; 1 hour)
- Comparative Constitutional Law: Rights (LW 851; 3 hours)
- Comparative Family Law (LW 852; 2 hours)
- Conflict of Laws (LW 755; 3 hours)
- Constitutional Law I (LW 861; 4 hours)
- Constitutional Law II (LW 862; 3 hours)
- Contracts (LW 700; 4 hours)
- Copyright Law (LW 953; 3 hours)
- Corporate Compliance: Law and Policy (LW 785; 2-3 hours)
- Criminal Appeal Advocacy (LW 903; 3 hours)
- Criminal Appeal Advocacy: Advanced Topics (LW 903D; 1-2 hours)
- Criminal Justice Seminar: Sentencing, Incarceration and Release (LW 720; 2 hours)
- Criminal Law (LW 729; 3 hours)
- Criminal Law: the Defense and Prosecution Function (LW 730; 1 hour)
- Criminal Procedure (LW 750; 3 hours)
- Criminal Procedure II (LW 839; 3 hours)
- Cross Examination Techniques (LW 906; 1 hour)
Descriptions, D-E
- Debtor/Creditor Relations (LW 718; 3 hours)
- Decedents' Estates and Trusts (LW 915; 3-4 hours)
- Directed Research (LW 763; 1-3 hours)
- Directed Research: Advanced Topics in Workplace Law (LW 884; 1-2 hours)
- Divorce Practice (LW 716; 2 hours)
- Domestic Violence (LW 890; 1-3 hours)
- E-Discovery (LW 984; 2 hours)
- Education Law (LW 722; 2-3 hours)
- Education Law: Special Education (LW 708; 1 hour)
- Elder Law (LW 932; 2-3 hours)
- Election Law (LW 945; 2-3 hours)
- Employee Benefits Law (LW 709; 2-3 hours)
- Employment Discrimination (LW 786; 3 hours)
- Employment Law (LW 917; 2-3 hours)
- Energy Regulation (LW 803; 2 hours)
- Environmental Law (LW 744; 3 hours)
- Environmental Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry (LW 967; 1-2 hours)
- Environmental Rights Practicum (LW XXX; 3 hours)
- Estate Planning and Taxation (LW 749; 4 hours)
- Evidence (LW 757; 4 hours)
- Evolution of a Business Transaction (LW 937; 1 hour)
- Externship I (LW 921; 2 hours)
- Externship II (LW 922; 2 hours)
- Externship: Judicial (LW 976; 2-4 hours)
- Externship: Rural Practice (LW 858; 6 hours)
- Externship: Third Year Anywhere® I (LW 993; 6 hours)
- Externship: Third Year Anywhere® II (LW 994; 6 hours)
- Externship: Workplace Law (LW 881; 2 hours)
Descriptions, F-J
- Family Law (LW 728; 3 hours)
- Family Law Seminar (LW 754; 2 hours)
- Federal Courts (LW 759; 3 hours)
- Federal Indian Law (LW 841; 3 hours)
- Financial Issues in Divorce (LW 841; 1-2 hours)
- Fundamentals of Oral Argument SEE Advanced Oral Argument
- Fundamentals of Real Estate Law (LW 938; 1-2 hours)
- Gender, Sexuality, and the Law (LW 934; 3 hours)
- Health Care Law and Policy (LW 830; 2-3 hours)
- Human Dignity Rights (LW YYY; 2 hours)
- Human Trafficking Law in the United States (LW 775; 2 hours)
- Immigration Law (LW 815; 2-3 hours)
- Independent Readings in Natural Resources Law (LW 826; 1-2 hours)
- Independent Study in Oil and Gas Law (LW 969; 1-2 hours)
- Insurance Law (LW 710; 3 hours)
- Intellectual Property (LW 808; 3 hours)
- International Business Transactions (LW 778; 3 hours)
- International Human Rights (LW 812; 2-3 hours)
- International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples (LW 919; 3 hours)
- International Intellectual Property Law (LW 948; 3 hours)
- International Law SEE Public International Law
- International Petroleum Transactions (LW 973; 3 hours)
- Interviewing and Counseling (LW 914; 2 hours)
- Introduction to Nonprofit Law (LW 950; 1 hour)
- Jessup International Moot Court Competition (LW 978; 1-4 hours)
- Judicial Externship SEE Externship: Judicial
- Jurisprudence (LW 799; 2 hours)
- Jury Selection and Voir Dire (LW 877; 1 hour)
- Juvenile Offender (LW 886; 2 hours)
Descriptions, K-M
- Kansas Legal Research (LW 702; 2 hours)
- Labor Law (LW 783; 3 hours)
- Law and Accounting (LW 717; 2 hours)
- Law and Economics (LW 853; 2-3 hours)
- Law and Politics (LW 850; 2 hours)
- Law in Context (LW 971; 2 hours)
- Law Journal Editorial Board (LW 764; 1-2 hours per semester)
- Law Journal Membership (LW 771; 1 hour per semester)
- Law of Armed Conflict (LW 927; 3 hours)
- Law Practice Management (LW 824; 2 hours)
- Law Practice Technologies (LW 925; 1 hour)
- Lawyering Competencies I (LW 893; 1 hour)
- Lawyering Competencies II (LW 894; 1 hour)
- Leadership for Lawyers (LW 883; 2 hours)
- Legal Analysis, Research & Writing for the Government Client (LW 965; 2 hours)
- Legal Analysis, Research and Writing I (LW 875; 3 hours)
- Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (LW 876; 3 hours)
- Legal History Seminar (LW 798; 2 hours)
- Legal Research for Legal Scholars (LW 869; 1 hour)
- Legal Writing for Clerkships and Externships (LW 962; 1 hour)
- Legislation (LW 776; 3 hours)
- Local Government Law (LW 820; 2 hours)
- Mediation (LW 817; 2 hours)
- Moot Court (LW 762; 1-2 hours)
- Multistate Legal Analysis (LW 963; 3 hours)
Descriptions, N-S
- Natural Resources Law and Policy (LW 773; 2-3 hours)
- Negotiation (LW 857; 2 hours)
- Negotiation Competition (LW 777; 1-2 hours)
- Oil and Gas Joint Operations (LW 856; 2 hours)
- Oil and Gas Law (LW 740; 3 hours)
- Patent Law (LW 918; 2 hours)
- Patent Prosecution (LW 961; 2 hours)
- Performance Writing (LW 942; 2 hours)
- Pretrial Advocacy-Civil (LW 765; 3 hours)
- Pretrial Advocacy-Criminal (LW 768; 3 hours)
- Professional Responsibility (LW 770; 3 hours)
- Property (LW 732; 4 hours)
- Public Employment Law (LW 959; 2 hours)
- Public International Law (LW 928; 3 hours)
- Public Land Law (LW 747; 3 hours)
- Race and the Law (LW 902; 2-3 hours)
- Real Estate Transactions (LW 733; 3 hours)
- Remedies (LW 739; 3 hours)
- Rural Practice Externship SEE Externship: Rural Practice
- Secured Transactions (LW 838; 3 hours)
- Special Education Law SEE Education Law: Special Education
- Specialized Legal Research: Business and Tax (LW 920; 1-2 hours)
- Specialized Legal Research: Statutory and Regulatory Law (LW 949; 2 hours)
- Sports and the Law (LW 794; 2 hours)
- Study Abroad, Maastricht University (LW 990; 6-15 hours)
Descriptions, T-Z
- Taking and Defending Depositions (LW 907; 1 hour)
- Tax Policy Seminar (LW 823; 2 hours)
- Taxation by State and Local Governments (LW 788; 2 hours)
- Taxation of Business Enterprises (LW 940; 3 hours)
- Taxation of Individual Income (LW 790; 3 hours)
- Third Year Anywhere® Externship I SEE Externship: Third Year Anywhere® I
- Third Year Anywhere® Externship II SEE Externship: Third Year Anywhere® II
- Torts (LW 725; 4 hours)
- Torts: Product Liability and Privacy (LW 723; 2 hours)
- Trademark Law (LW 898; 3 hours)
- Transactional Drafting (LW 707; 3 hours)
- Transactional Law Meet Competition (LW 889; 1-2 hours)
- Trial Advocacy (and Intensive Trial Advocacy Program) (LW 766; 2 hours)
- Trial Advocacy Competition (LW 805; 1-2 hours)
- Tribal Law and Government (LW 941; 2-3 hours)
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Compliance (LW 892; 1-2 hours)
- Water Law (LW 742; 3 hours)
- White Collar Crime (LW 936; 2-3 hours)
- Workers' Compensation (LW 781; 2 hours)
- Workplace Law Externship SEE Externship: Workplace Law
- Writing for Law Practice (LW 901; 3 hours)
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Washburn Law recognizes that there are many different paths into and out of law school. To provide its graduates with the maximum flexibility for career options, Washburn Law has carefully designed its first-year and upper-level curriculum, including its requirements and electives, to ensure that graduates from its juris doctor program achieve and exceed the ABA mandated learning outcomes. Our curriculum evolves with the practice of law; consequently, it is subject to change.