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.
- "U.S. SEC Law Student Observer Program and Securities Regulation Seminar"
- Access to Justice Seminar
- Access to Medicine
- Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic
- Advanced Criminal Law and Public Policy: A Research Practicum
- Advanced International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic
- Advanced Legal Writing for American Practice
- Advanced Negotiation: Public Policy
- Advanced Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
- Advanced Three Strikes Project
- Advanced Topics in Law and Economics
- Advanced Topics in Unfair Competition
- Advanced Wrongful Convictions
- Alternative Conceptions of Antidiscrimination
- American Incarceration from a Global Perspective
- Ancient Greek Law
- Betrayal and Loyalty, Treason and Trust
- Beyond the Common Law: Tort Reform and Tort Alternatives
- California's "Three Strikes" Law & Proportionate Sentencing
- China and the New World Order
- Chinese for Lawyers
- Civil Procedure I
- Clean Tech: Business Fundamentals and Public Policy
- Climate Change Law and Policy: From California to the Federal Government
- Comparative and International Freedom of Press: US, Latin America, and Inter-American System
- Comparative Civil Rights
- Comparative Constitutional Law: The South African Bill of Rights
- Concepts of Modernity 1: Philosophical Foundations
- Conflict of Laws
- Conservation in the Face of Climate Change
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law: Speech and Religion
- Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton
- Contract Remedies
- Contract Theory Seminar
- Contracts
- Copyright, the Internet, and Industry
- Corporate Governance and Practice Seminar
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Business, Sustainability, and Human Rights
- Criminal Law
- Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions
- Cultural Heritage Law and Policy
- Cultural, Legal and Constitutional Pluralism in Europe
- Current Issues in Tax Policy
- Current Topics in Bioethics
- Cyberlaw/Fair Use Clinic: Advanced
- Cyberlaw/Fair Use Clinic: Advanced
- Data Privacy Law
- Deals II
- Democracy and the Constitution
- Disability Rights
- Dispute Resolution in China
- Election Law: Current Topics
- Empirical Evaluation of the Law
- Energy Law
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Law in Social Enterprises
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and the Law Practicum
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers (Accelerated)
- European Corporate Governance
- Evolution, Creationism and the Law
- Executive Power
- Federal Litigation
- Feminist Jurisprudence
- Foreign Legal Study: Bucerius Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
- 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
- Foundations of Statistical Inference
- Freedom of Speech in a Digitally Interconnected World
- Gender, Law, and Public Policy
- Genetics and Reproductive Technologies
- Health Law and Policy: Public Health and Bioethics
- History and Future of Citizenship and the State
- History of the Common Law in England and America
- How Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Businesses Solve Legal Problems
- Human Rights and Moral Questions
- Ideas for a Better Internet
- Intellectual Property: Issues in Entertainment Law
- Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Negotiation and Decision Making
- International Development
- International Development
- International Economic Law, Business & Policy (IELBP) Colloquium
- International Environmental Law
- International Investment Law
- International Law in the 21st Century
- International Trade Regulation
- International Women's Human Rights
- Internet Intermediaries
- Internet Torts and Crimes
- Introduction to American Law
- Introduction to Public Interest Practice
- Islamic Law
- Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice, and Social Policy
- Law and Biosciences Workshop
- Law and Economics of Death Policy
- Law and Economics of the World Trade Organization
- Law and Economics Seminar II
- Law and Politics in California
- Law and Popular Culture
- Law and Psychology
- Law and Public Policy: Issues in Implementation
- Law and Society
- Law and Society in International Perspective
- Law and Society in International Perspective
- Law and the News Media
- Law of Nonprofit Organizations
- Legal Accounting
- Legal Bibliography and Brief Making
- Legal Research and Writing
- Legal Strategies: Complex and Aggregate Litigation
- Legislative Simulation: The Federal Budget
- Liability, Responsibility, and Punishment
- Malpractice: How Lawyers and Clients Behave Badly
- Mass Incarceration and Its Effects
- Mental Health Law
- Mental Health Law: Forensics
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Modern American Legal Thought
- Modern Securities Fraud Litigation: Public and Private Enforcement
- Modern Securities Regulation: Capital Formation through IPOs, Private Placements
- Myth, Law, and Practice
- Negotiation and Influence
- Oral Argument Practicum
- Oral Argument Workshop
- Oral Argument Workshop
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Patent Prosecution
- Payment Systems
- Plato's Republic as an Introduction to Jurisprudence
- Policy & Strategy Issues in Financial Engineering
- Positive Political Theory and the Law
- Poverty Law: Policy and Practice
- Privacy and Free Speech Online
- Privacy and Technology
- Property
- Public Interest Law & Lawyers
- Race and the Law
- Real Estate Transactions
- Reconstructing the Litigation State
- Religion and the Constitution
- Research Design for Empirical Legal Studies
- Selena Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Colloquium
- Social Justice Impact Litigation: Issues and Strategies
- Sovereignty, Globalization, and Technological Change
- Spanish For Lawyers
- SPILS Masters Thesis
- SPILS Thesis Writing Workshop
- Sports Law
- State-Building and Rule of Law Practicum
- 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 (KLEP)
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop: Advanced (TLLEP)
- Statutory Interpretation
- Taxation
- TGR: Dissertation
- The Ethics and Law of War
- The Judicial Role
- The Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions
- The Plaintiffs' Lawyer: Institutional Constraints and Ethical Challenges
- The Role of the Modern General Counsel
- Three Strikes Project: Clinical Coursework
- Three Strikes Project: Clinical Methods
- Three Strikes Project: Clinical Practice
- Tort and the Administrative State
- Torts
- Toxic Harms
- Trans-National Litigation
- United States v. Milken: A Case Study
- Venture Capital II
- Wine and the Law
- Workshop in Sociology of Law
- Workshop on International Security, Law, and Social Science
- Wrongful Convictions
Business and Commercial Law
- Accounting
- Advanced Antitrust: Litigating an Antitrust Case
- Advanced Legal Writing: Business Transactions
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Capital Markets I
- Capital Markets II
- Construction Law
- Corporate Acquisitions
- Corporate Finance I
- Corporate Governance Seminar
- Corporate Reorganization
- Corporations
- Deal Litigation Seminar
- Deals I
- Derivatives
- Financial Crises and the Regulation of Financial Institutions
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Debt Workouts
- Quantitative Methods: Finance
- Regulated Industries
- Secured Credit
- Securities Litigation
- Venture Capital I
Civil Procedure and Litigation
- Administrative Law
- Civil Procedure II: Multi-Party Litigation
- Evidence
- Evidence
- Federal Courts
- Federal Courts
- Federal Indian Law
- Federal Pretrial Litigation
- Moot Court
- Moot Court
- Psychology of Litigation: Practical & Ethical Implications
- Reconstructing the Administrative State: Theory and Practice
- The Civil Jury
- Trial Advocacy Workshop
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
- Educational Inequality
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Immigration Law, Policy and Constitutional Rights
- Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
- Law, Litigation, and Educational Policy
- Local Government Law
- Regulation of the Political Process
- The Democratization of Credit
Civil Procedure and Litigation, Criminal Law and Procedure
Environmental Law and Natural Resources
- Advanced Environmental Law Clinic
- California Coast: Science, Policy and Law
- Climate and Energy Seminar
- Climate Change Workshop
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Natural Resource Law and Policy Workshop
- Water Law and Policy
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
- Advanced Legal Research
- Animal Law
- Approaches to American Legal History
- Art and the Law
- Decision Making, Influence, and Leadership
- Econometrics
- Economic and Social Organization of the Legal Profession
- Entertainment Law
- History of American Law
- JSD Research Colloquium
- 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: The Future of Large Law Firms
- Legal Studies Workshop
- Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health
- Remedies
- Sexual Orientation and the Law
- Social Science and International Institutions
- Sociology of Law
- Stereotyping and Prejudice
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America
- Writing Workshop: Law and Creativity
Public Policy
Dispute Resolution, Mediation, and Negotiation
- Advanced Negotiation: International
- Advanced Negotiation: Transactions
- Alternate Dispute Resolution: Law, Practice, and Policy
- Alternate Dispute Resolution: Practicum
- Dispute Systems Design
- International Conflict Resolution Colloquium
- Judgment and Decision-Making
- Negotiation
- Principles of Contract Design
Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property Law
- Biotechnology Law and Policy
- Communications Law: Broadcast and Cable Television
- Communications Law: Internet and Telephony
- Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems
- Food and Drug Administration
- Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy
- Health Law & Policy: Assuring Quality
- Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law
- Intellectual Property: Advanced Topics in Patent Law
- Intellectual Property: Commercial Law
- Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
- Intellectual Property: Patents
- Intellectual Property: Strategy for Technology Companies
- Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property: Trademark
- Internet Business Law and Policy
- Introduction to Intellectual Property
- IP Advanced Topics: Private and Public Strategies for Managing the Information Future
- Law and Biosciences: Genetics
- Law and Biosciences: Neuroscience
- Law, Science, and Technology Colloquium
- Patent Litigation Workshop
Business and Commercial Law, International and Comparative Law
International and Comparative Law
- Comparative Law
- Designing Liberation Technologies
- European Union Law
- Foreign and International Legal Research
- 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
- Law and Terrorism: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
- Law in Latin American
- SPILS Law and Society Seminar
- SPILS Research Methods Workshop
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop
- Transitional Justice
Constitutional Law and Theory
Civil Procedure and Litigation, Constitutional Law and Theory
Taxation Law
Criminal Law and Procedure
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
- Criminal Procedure: Investigation
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Sentencing and Corrections
- Supreme Court Simulation Seminar
- Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
- White Collar Crime