Upper-Level Writing and Research Courses
After the first-year ALAW and Legal Research Tools and Strategies courses, students can continue to work on becoming excellent legal writers, researchers and, ultimately, successful lawyers by taking upper-level research and writing courses. These courses enable students to refine oral and written communication skills in a way that employers value.
Upper-Level Research and Writing Courses (Courses that focus on the research and writing that lawyers in practice regularly do):
- Civil Pre-Trial Practice and Advocacy
- Intensive Legal Writing & Drafting
- Research and Writing for Judicial Clerkships
- Researching Administrative Law
- Strategic Legal Research
- Trial Advocacy
- Winning Written Advocacy
Clinics and Externships (Opportunities that help students to hone their research and writing skills while working with real clients):
- Arts, Sports & Entertainment Law Clinic
- Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- Civil Rights Appellate Clinic
- Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic
- Family Law Clinic
- Indigent Criminal Justice Practicum
- Intellectual Property Clinic
- International Sustainable Development Projects Clinic
- Rural Economic Development Clinic
- Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic
- Semester in Washington Program
- Externships Everywhere
Upper-Level Courses with Writing Components (Substantive courses, other than seminars, that include writing assignments):
- Energy Law and Policy
- Federal Courts
- Mediation of Environmental and Public Conflicts
- Modern In-House Counsel
- National Security Law II
- Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Design
- Professional Responsibility
- Sports Law
- Street Law
- Veterans Benefits Law
- Water Law and Policy
Advanced LL.M. Writing Courses (A second semester optional writing course for LL.M. students):
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