To earn a certificate in public interest law, students must complete 6 credits from the list of core courses and earn a total of 15 credits from any combination of the two lists below.
Note: Not all courses are offered every academic year. For information about current course offerings, please visit the Class Schedule page of the Office of the University Registrar website.
Core Courses
- Appellate Clinic
- Civil Rights, Community Justice & Mediation Clinic
- Congressional & Administrative Law Externship
- Criminal Justice Clinic
- First Amendment Clinic
- Government Lawyering Externship
- Immigration Clinic
- Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- International Justice & Conflict Resolution Externship
- Judicial Clerkship Externship
- Lawyering Practice Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
- Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
- New York Regulatory & Business Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
- Post-Conviction Relief Clinical Practicum
- Prosecution Clinic
- Public Defender Externship
- Semester in Practice Externship (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
- Supervised Practicum (if with nonprofit or governmental entity)
- Veterans Law Clinic
- Wrongful Conviction Clinic
- Any other externship in which the student is placed with a nonprofit or government entity as determined by the Dean of Clinical Education
Elective Courses
- Administrative Law
- Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
- American Indian Law
- Antitrust
- Causation in Employment Discrimination Law
- Community Development Law
- Comparative Law
- Comparative Refugee Law
- Consumer Law
- Consumer Transactions
- Crime Policy and the Growth of Incarceration Seminar
- Criminal Justice Seminar
- Criminal Justice Reform Movement Seminar
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
- Criminal Procedure: Investigation
- Critical Race Theory
- Digital Civil Liberties Seminar
- Education Equity, Equality & Reform: K-12
- Election Law
- Employee Benefits: ERISA & Tax
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Energy Law & Regulation
- Environmental Law
- European Union Law
- Families in Dissolution
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Feminist Legal Theory
- FDA Law
- Good Society Seminar
- Health Law
- Immigration Law
- Information Privacy Law
- International Courts & Tribunals: Practice & Procedure
- International Criminal Justice and Human Rights Practice
- International Criminal Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Intellectual Property Law Seminar
- International Law
- International Money Laundering, Corruption & Terrorism
- Introduction to Climate Change Law and Policy
- Jurisprudence Seminar
- Labor Law
- Land Use and Racial Justice
- Land Use Law
- Legislation
- Local Government Law
- National Security Law
- Natural Resources Law
- New Directions in Housing Law & Policy Seminar
- Nonprofit Organizations Planning & Drafting
- Policy and Advocacy in the Three Branches of Government
- Pretrial Practice: Criminal
- Race and the Law
- Regulating Sex: Historical & Cultural Encounters Seminar
- Religion & the Constitution
- Select Topics in Juvenile Justice
- Seminar on Social Movements, Work and Law
- Sexuality & the Law: Theory & Practice
- Social Media and Content Regulation
- Special Topics in Reproductive Justice: The Abortion Right
- Speech, Press & the Constitution
- State & Local Government
- State-Level Lobbying
- The American Presidency Seminar
- The Law of the 14th Amendment
- Title IX: Sex Discrimination in Education
- U.S. Refugee & Asylum Law
- Veterans Affairs Law
- Voting Rights Seminar
- War, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity Seminar
- Workers' Compensation