Courses
2nd & 3rd Year Programs
Stanford Law School offers more courses in the advanced curriculum than any student could take during law school. The following is a list of many of the elective courses that have been offered at the Law School during the last several years. Although the offerings vary from year to year, this list illustrates the diversity of courses available at the school.
Business and Commercial Law
- "U.S. SEC Law Student Observer Program and Securities Regulation Seminar"
- Accounting
- Advanced Antitrust: Litigating an Antitrust Case
- Advanced Legal Writing: Business Transactions
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Corporate Acquisitions
- Corporate Finance I
- Corporate Governance and Practice Seminar
- Corporate Law: Theory and Practice
- Corporate Reorganization
- Corporations
- Deal Litigation Seminar
- Deals I
- Deals II
- Derivatives
- International Commercial Arbitration
- Modern Capital Markets and the Financial Crisis
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Quantitative Methods: Finance
- Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Regulatory Economics
- Secured Credit
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation: Mandatory Disclosure, Capital Formation, and the IPO Process
- The Role of the Modern General Counsel
- Venture Capital I
- Venture Capital II
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
- 21st Century Professional Skills and Practice Management
- Advanced Legal Research
- Art and the Law
- Cultural Heritage Law and Policy
- Entertainment Law
- History of American Law
- Law and Culture in American Fiction
- Law and Culture in American Film
- Law and Economics Seminar I
- Law and the Rhetorical Tradition
- Legal History Workshop
- Legal Profession Workshop: Deconstructing Big Law
- Legal Studies Workshop
- Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health
- Remedies
- Writing Workshop: Law and Creativity
Civil Procedure and Litigation
Public Interest Law
- Advanced Community Law Clinic
- Advanced Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- Advanced Youth and Education Advocacy Clinic
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Disability Rights
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Immigration Law, Policy and Constitutional Rights
- Local Government Law
- Regulation of the Political Process
Criminal Law and Procedure
- Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic
- Advanced Criminal Law and Public Policy: A Research Practicum
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Criminal Law and Policy: Research Workshop
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
- Criminal Procedure: Investigation
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Supreme Court Simulation Seminar
- White Collar Crime
Civil Procedure and Litigation, Criminal Law and Procedure
Public Policy
Environmental Law and Natural Resources
- Advanced Environmental Law Clinic
- California Coast: Science, Policy and Law
- Clean Tech: Business Fundamentals and Public Policy
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Natural Resource Law and Policy Workshop
International and Comparative Law
- Advanced International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic
- Advanced Legal Writing for American Practice
- Comparative Law
- Counterterrorism and the Law
- Designing Liberation Technologies
- European Union Law
- Foreign Legal Study: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
- International Human Rights
- International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic: Clinical Methods
- International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic: Clinical Practice
- International Law
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop
- Workshop on International Security, Law, and Social Science
Dispute Resolution, Mediation, and Negotiation
Dispute Resolution, Mediation, and Negotiation, Environmental Law and Natural Resources
Constitutional Law and Theory
Business and Commercial Law, International and Comparative Law
Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property Law
- Communications Law: Internet and Telephony
- Cyberlaw/Fair Use Clinic: Advanced
- Cyberlaw/Fair Use Clinic: Advanced
- Food and Drug Administration
- Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy
- Intellectual Property: Advanced Patents
- Intellectual Property: Commercial Law
- Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Intellectual Property: Patents
- Intellectual Property: Strategy for Technology Companies
- Intellectual Property: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
- Introduction to Intellectual Property
- IP Advanced Topics: The Future of Online Music and Online Video
- Law and Biosciences: Neuroscience
- Law, Science, and Technology Colloquium
- Patent Litigation Workshop
Taxation Law
Legal Theory
Independent Study
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Public Policy
Labor and Employment Law
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Law in Social Enterprises
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and the Law Practicum
- Equal Protection: Race and the Law
- Evidence
- Federal Litigation
- Foreign Legal Study: Bucerius Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: European University Institute
- Foreign Legal Study: National University of Singapore
- Foreign Legal Study: Peking University Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: Waseda University
- Gender, Law, and Public Policy
- Health Law and Policy: Public Health and Bioethics
- How Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Businesses Solve Legal Problems
- Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
- Intellectual Property: Licensing
- International Business Negotiation
- International Public Interest Lawyering Colloquium
- International Trade Law
- Internet Torts and Crimes
- Introduction to Microeconomics
- Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice, and Social Policy
- Law and Biosciences Workshop
- Law and Economics of Death Penalty
- Law and Economics Seminar II
- Law of Nonprofits
- Law, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Change
- Lawyer as Facilitator
- Lawyer as Facilitator
- Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving
- Legal Cultures and Legal Professionals in Latin America and Latin Europe
- Legal Strategies: Complex and Aggregate Litigation
- Legal Technology and Informatics
- Legislative Simulation: The Federal Budget
- Mental Health Law: Forensics
- Modern American Legal Thought
- Myth, Law, and Practice
- Narrative Skills and the Law
- Natural Resources Law and Policy
- Oral Argument Workshop
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Patent Prosecution
- Payment Systems
- Pivotal Moments in American Institutions and Public Law, 1791-Present
- Policy & Strategy Issues in Financial Engineering
- Private Equity Investing
- Property
- Protecting Workers' Rights in Hard Times
- Protection of Personality
- Public Interest Law and Practice
- Real Estate Transactions
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Practice
- Reproductive Justice: Law, Policy and Advocacy
- Research Design for Empirical Legal Studies
- Rethinking Refugee Communities
- Social Justice Impact Litigation: Issues and Strategies
- Spanish For Lawyers
- SPILS Masters Thesis
- Sports Law
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop: Advanced (ALEP)
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop: Advanced (BLPP)
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop: Advanced (ILEI)
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop: Advanced (TLLEP)
- Statistical Inference in Law
- Statutory Interpretation
- Technological, Economic and Business Forces Transforming the Private Practice of Law
- Terrorism and the Courts
- TGR: Dissertation
- The American Legal Profession
- The Financial Crisis
- The Rule of Law - The Foundation of Functional Communities
- The United States Senate as a Legal Institution
- Three Strikes Project: Criminal Justice Reform & Post-conviction Litigation
- Torts
- Toxic Harms
- Why Intellectual Property?: Rationales and Critiques of IP Law
- Wine and the Law