The Law School curriculum combines traditional substantive law courses (like contracts, torts, civil procedure and criminal law) with lawyering skills throughout the three years of legal education.
Type: Completion requirement
Earn a minimum GPA of 2.5
Earn at least 86 credits
Successful participation in a clinic
Passing grades in all required courses
Type: Completion requirement
Fulfill ALL of the following requirements:
Complete ALL of the following Courses
- LAW 701 – Contracts:Law and a Market Economy I
- LAW 702 – Contracts: Law and a Market Economy II
- LAW 705 – Legal Research
- LAW 709 – Civil Procedure
- LAW 738 – Professional Responsibility
- LAW 779 – The Mastery and Application of Core Doctrine
- LAW 809 – Applied Legal Analysis
- LAW 825 – Lawyering Seminar III
- LAW 7004 – Lawyering Seminar I
- LAW 7005 – Lawyering Seminar II
- LAW 7043 – Liberty, Equality, and Due Process
- LAW 7131 – Criminal Law: Responsibility for Injurious Conduct
- LAW 7141 – Torts-Rsp Inj Conduc
- LAW 7151 – Property: Law and a Market Economy III
- LAW 7192 – Constitutional Structures
- LAW 7251 – Public Institutions/Administrative Law
- LAW 7292 – Evidence: Lawyering and the Public Interest
- LAW 7692 – Critical Race Theory
Core Doctrine is a required course for all students. Full-time students with a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher by the end of their fifth semester for full-time or seventh semester for PT requirements for evening students, students may opt out of this requirement and take a sufficient number of additional elective credits to satisfy graduation requirements. CUNY School of Law does not round GPAs up or down for this opt-out. Thus, a student with a GPA of 3.299 at the end of their fifth semester will be required to take Core Doctrine, while a student with a 3.30 GPA will not.
Clinic Requirements
Earn at least 12 credits
The choice of which Clinic and elective courses will be offered is determined each year, and the Law School expressly reserves the right to change or modify these offerings for future years.
Type: Completion requirement
Bar Electives
Complete at least 9 of the following courses:
- LAW 723 – Real Estate Transactions
- LAW 745 – First Amendment
- LAW 751 – Wills and Trusts
- LAW 780 – Criminal Procedure: Investigation
- LAW 811 – Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
- LAW 862 – Advanced Civil Procedure
- LAW 7092 – Civil Procedure II
- LAW 7161 – Law and Family Relations
- LAW 7261 – Federal Courts
- LAW 7531 – New York Practice
- LAW 7554 – UCC:Survey
- LAW 7572 – Business Associations
- LAW 7893 – New York Domestic Relations Law
- LAW 72923 – Advanced Evidence