Simulation Courses

The Law School prides itself on providing learning experiences that stretch beyond the classroom and give students practical experience and insight into the way the law functions. Often taught by practicing lawyers, simulation courses allow students to spend anywhere from a few days to a year studying real-world problems with some of the top practitioners, scholars and judges in the field. These courses (along with externships and clinics) count toward the six credits of experiential learning required of law students by the American Bar Association. 

Courses

These courses represent the 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years, and do not include externships, which are field placements. See clinics for clinical courses. (SC) = short course. (YR) = yearlong.

  • Advanced Contracts: When Financial Contracts Blow Up
  • Advanced Legal Research
  • Advanced Topics in Trade Secret Law (SC)
  • Advanced Verbal Persuasion
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace
  • Appellate Practice
  • Applied Trial Evidence
  • Artificial Intelligence and Empirical Legal Research (YR)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Bioethics and Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration
  • Conservation Planning and Law
  • Constitutional Reform
  • Contract Drafting
  • Corporate Criminal Investigations
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp (SC)
  • Deal Lab
  • Deals
  • Designing Democracy: Participation
  • Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice
  • Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice
  • Estate Planning: Principles and Practice
  • Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice
  • Federal Litigation Practice
  • Global Transactions: Key Issues and Contract Drafting (SC)
  • Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy
  • Human Rights Study Project (YR)
  • Innovating for Defense
  • Intellectual Property Transactions and Contract Drafting (SC)
  • Internal Investigations (SC)
  • International Business Negotiation
  • International Debt Transactions
  • International Tax Practicum (YR)
  • Introduction to Negotiation (SC)
  • Law and Artificial Intelligence
  • Law and Leadership in the Public Interest
  • Law of Public-Private Partnerships
  • Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar
  • Lawyers, Clerks and Judicial Decision-making
  • Leadership for Lawyers: Practice, Theory and the Public Interest
  • Legal Storytelling
  • Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law
  • Mediation Law and Practice (SC) 
  • Negotiation
  • Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice
  • Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom (SC)
  • Persuasion (SC)
  • Privacy in Practice: Building and Leading a Modern Privacy Office
  • Real Estate Transactions and Litigation
  • Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (SC)
  • Regulatory Law and Policy
  • Role and Challenges of the Modern General Counsel (SC)
  • Securities Litigation and Enforcement
  • Shifting Priorities in Humanitarian Immigration
  • Solo and Small Firm Practice
  • Spanish for Public Service Lawyers
  • Taking Effective Depositions
  • Tax Policymaking in Practice
  • Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics
  • The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (SC)
  • The Business of Sport
  • Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (SC)
  • Transactional Approach To Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Transactional Intellectual Property Law
  • Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation
  • Trial Advocacy

All Current Courses