Courses
The Advanced Law Degree Programs seeks to integrate law students from around the world, at various levels of study. Other than courses specifically designed for international LL.M. students, candidates for both advanced law degrees satisfy course
requirements by enrolling in courses and seminars from among
those offered to law students pursuing the J.D. degree.
Fall/Spring LL.M. Required Courses for International Students:
- Introduction to U.S. Law (one unit) - offered during the week just prior to Fall semester
- Topics in American Law (two units) - Fall semester
- Legal Research and Writing (one unit; coursework-track students only) - Fall semester
Summer LL.M. Required Courses for International Students:
- Introduction to U.S. Law/Topics in American Law (3 units) - initial summer term
- Legal Writing and Research (1 units) - initial summer term
- Contracts (3 units) - initial summer term
- Constitutional Law (3 units) - second summer term
- Civil Litigation (3 units) - second summer term
- Legal Profession (3 units) - second summer term
- Summer LL.M. program elective courses
Berkeley Law offers a curriculum rich in traditional law subjects as well as emerging, cutting edge fields. A sample of commonly offered courses is listed below. Topical courses are also offered each semester. Course descriptions, content and requirements are subject to change; not all courses are offered each academic year. For current course listings, visit www.law.berkeley.edu/students/courses/.
Courses by Subject Area:
Business, Law, and Economics*
(see also International and Comparative Legal Studies)
- Advanced Corporate Governance
- Advising the Emerging Growth Company
- Antitrust Analysis
- Antitrust Law
- Antitrust Law and Economics Seminar
- Antitrust/Mergers
- Bankruptcy
- Business for Lawyers
- Commercial Transactions
- Comparative Antitrust Law
- Comparative Contract Law
- Constructing the Corporate Deal
- Construction Law
- Corporate Finance and Bankruptcy Reorganization
- Corporations I
- Corporations II
- Drafting Legal Documents for Small Business
- Employment Law
- Health Law
- Insider Trading
- Insurance Law
- International Foreign
- Investment Law
- Introduction to Law and Business
- Introduction to Law and Economics
- Labor Law
- Law and Economics Workshop
- Legal Accounting
- Mergers
- Modern Financial Products and Instruments
- Negotiation
- Pensions and Employee Benefits
- Quantitative Methods in Law Seminar
- Real Estate Transactions I
- Real Estate Transactions II
- Secured Transactions: Article 9
- Securities Regulation I
- Securities Regulation II
- Seminar on Law, Psychology and Economics
- Small-Business Counseling
- Tax Policy Seminar
- Techniques of Financial Analysis for Lawyers
Criminal Law
- Advanced Criminal Procedure
- Advanced Problems in Criminal Law
- Capital Punishment
- Comparative Criminal Law
- Computer Crimes Seminar
- Crime, Law and Governance
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Sentencing
- Criminal Trial Practice
- Death Penalty Seminar
- Federal Criminal Law
- Insider Trading
- The Jurisprudence of Risk: Predictions of Dangerousness in the Criminal Process
- Juvenile Justice
- Legal and Social Implications of the War on Drugs
- Restorative Justice
- Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law
- Trial Practice: Criminal
Environmental Law*
- Agriculture and Environment
- Biodiversity Policy
- California Environmental Policy Issues
- CERCA, RCRA and Common Law Claims
- Energy Regulation and the Environment
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Environmental Law Practicum
- Environmental Law Workshop
- Environmental Law Writing Seminar
- Environmental Pollution
- International Environmental Law
- International Tribunals and the Environment
- Land-Use Planning and Control
- Ocean Law and Policy
- Public Land Law
- Water Resource Law
- Workshop in Development and the Environment
- Workshop on Environmental Policy
Family Law
California Marital Property
Child Welfare Law and Policy
Children and the Law
Domestic Violence Law Seminar
The Family in Public Policy
Family Law
International and Comparative Legal Studies*
Advanced Comparative Law Seminar
Asian Law
China in the International Community
Chinese Legal Institutions
Comparative Antitrust Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
Comparative Contract Law
Comparative Criminal Law
Comparative Law
European Union Law
Global Migration Issues
International and Foreign Legal Research
International Business Transactions
International Civil Litigation
International Development Law and Policy
International Environmental Law
International Foreign Investment Law
International Law
International Law and International Relations
International Law Workshop
International Law Writing Seminar
International Legal Theory
International Tax Law
International Trade
Islamic Law and Society
Latin American Law
Law and Business in China
Law and Business in Japan
Law in Middle East Societies
Ocean Law and Policy
Public International Law
Refugee Law
Resolution of Private International Disputes
Transitional Justice
Law and Technology*
(includes intellectual property,technology and biomedical law)
Antitrust and Intellectual Property
Art Law
Biotechnology Patent Law Seminar
Comparative Antitrust Law
Computer Law
Copyright and Entertainment Law
Cyberlaw
Entertainment Law
Food and Drug Law
Historical Perspectives on Intellectual Property
Information Privacy Law
Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar
Intellectual Property Strategies
Intellectual Property Transactions
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Law and Technology Writing Seminar
Law, Science and Biotechnology
Mergers and Acquisitions in the High-Technology World
Open Source Development and Marketing
Patent Litigation
Securities Regulation I
Securities Regulation II
Stem Cell Seminar
Telecommunications
Trade Secrets
Trademarks
Wine Law
Legal History and Historical Law
African American Legal History
American Legal History Seminar
English Legal History
Law and Economic Change: Historical Perspectives
Law and Modern Social Thought
Law in American Film
Legal Theory and Ethics
Advanced Topics in Jurisprudence
Basic Legal Values
Citizenship
Contract Theory
Courts and Social Policy
Crime and Social Theory
Critical Race Theory
Equal Protection and Race Theory
Ethics, Business and the Legal Profession
Feminist Legal Theory
Foundations of Law and Society
Foundations of Legal Philosophy
Foundations of Political Philosophy
International Legal Theory
Jurisprudence
Law and Literature
Law and Modern Social Thought
Law and Social Norms
Law and Society Graduate Workshop
Law in the Work of Art
Law, Self and Society
Legal Ethics in Non-firm Practice
Legal Profession
Legal Theory Seminar
Life and Death: Moral Reasoning and the Law
Persuasive Language and Legal Texts
Politics of Labor Standards
Representations of Law in American Film
Representations of Law in Modern Literature
Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Litigation and Procedure
Advanced Criminal Procedure
Advanced Legal Research
Appellate Advocacy
Civil Justice Reform Seminar
Civil Procedure II
Complex Civil Litigation
Conflict of Laws
Evidence
Evidence Advocacy
International Civil Litigation
Interviewing and Depositions
Mass Tort Litigation
McBaine Moot Court Competition
Mediation
Negotiations
Pretrial Civil Litigation
Pretrial Criminal Litigation
Remedies
Securities and Class Action Litigation
Topics in Evidence
Trial Practice: Civil
Trial Practice: Criminal
Multidisciplinary Studies
Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Introduction to Law and Economics
Law and Economics Workshop
Representations of Law in American Film
Seminar on Law, Psychology and Economics
Professional Skills
Advanced Legal Research
Appellate Advocacy
Evidence Advocacy
Interviewing and Depositions
Judicial Extern Seminar
Legal Strategy
McBaine Moot Court Competition
Mediation
Negotiations
Pretrial Civil Litigation
Pretrial Criminal Litigation
Trial Practice: Civil
Trial Practice: Criminal
Public Law and Policy
Administrative Law
Advanced Constitutional Theory
Advanced Topics in Indian Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law: Basic Issues
Constitutional Law: First Amendment
Constitutional Law: Liberty and Equality
Constitutional Law: Structural Issues
Constitutional Theory Seminar
Courts and Social Policy
Direct Democracy Seminar
Disasters and the Law: The Implications of Hurricane Katrina
Education and the Law
Equal Protection and Race
Federal Courts
Federal Indian Law
Food and Drug Law
Fundamental Rights
Health Law
Labor Law
Law and Social Change
Legal Institutions
Legislation
Local Government Law
Mental Health Law, Advocacy and Policy
Regulating Public Integrity
Stem Cell Seminar
U.S. Supreme Court Seminar
Voting and Political Participation
Social Justice and Public Interest*
Advanced Asylum Issues
Animal Law
Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Asian Americans and the Law
Community Economic Development
Community Law Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center
Constitutional and Civil Rights of Immigrants: Current Issues
Critical Perspectives on Race and Nationalism
Disability Rights
Domestic Violence Law Seminar
Employment Discrimination
Federal Indian Law
Global Migration Issues
Housing Law
Immigration Law
Immigration Policy
International Human Rights
Journal Writing Seminar
Law and Sexuality
Law and Social Justice
Law and the Emotions
Low-Income Clients and Communities
Mental Health Law, Advocacy and Policy
Race and American Law
Refugee Law
Representing Law—Wage Workers
Restorative Justice
Rhetoric of Race and Gender
Sex-Based Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Orientation and the Law
Social Justice: Skills and Practice Issues
Social Justice Writing Seminar
Social Movements and Law Workshop
Street Law
Tax, Estates and Trusts
Corporate Income Tax
Estate Planning and Taxation
Estates and Trusts
Income Tax I
Income Tax II
International Tax Law
Partnership Tax
Tax Policy Seminar
(*denotes Specialized Curricular Program)
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