Distribution Requirements
2016-2017
ABA Upper Level Writing Requirement
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All Boston College Law School students are required to take an upper level course with a significant
writing experience in order to graduate. It can be taken at any time during the second or third year.
The courses, competitions and publications that fulfill this upper level writing requirement are listed
below.
*Courses denoted with an asterisk are listed with a 2/3 or 3/4 credit option. Students who opt for
the higher number of credits will fulfill the upper level writing requirement.
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LAWS6810
LAWS7735
LAWS3344
LAWS3390
LAWS7708
LAWS6663
LAWS4513
LAWS8852
LAWS9969
LAWS3322
LAWS3671
LAWS9942
LAWS4000
LAWS8916
LAWS7791
LAWS7860
LAWS7862
LAWS4897
LAWS6673
LAWS2190
LAWS7780
LAWS6286
LAWS3383
LAWS8871
LAWS7799
Advanced Legal Writing (All sections)
Advanced Topics in Torts (McMorrow)
American Jury (Brassard)
American Legal Education (Coquillette)
Art Law Seminar (Anzalone)
Business Law and Health Care Enterprises (Hashimoto)
Children’s Law and Public Policy (Sherman) *
Constitutional History: The Framing (Bilder)
Constitutional Politics (Albert)
Environmental Law (Plater) **
Environmental Law Seminar Advanced (Plater)
Experiential Learning in the Law School Curriculum (Gionfriddo)
Family Court Practice (Ginsburg) *
Feminist Jurisprudence (Young) *
Financial Services Regulation (McCoy)
Food and Drug Law (Green)
How Constitutions Change (Albert)
International and Comparative Rights: Economic & Social Rights (Young) *
Justice and the Global Economy (Garcia)
Law of War, War Crimes and Genocide (Ryan)
Professional Responsibility (Tremblay) *
Tax Policy Seminar (Ring)
Universal History of Legal Thought (Barrozo) *
White Collar Crime (Dowden)
Wrongful Convictions (Beckman)
Independent Studies – if writing a paper of 30 pages or more.
Competitions (Selection process required)
LAWS3335 European Union Moot Court (Perju)
LAWS9994 First Amendment (Daly)
LAWS6691 Frederick Douglass Moot Court (Daly)
LAWS5500 J. Braxton Craven Moot Court (Barnico)
LAWS8881 Jessup International Moot Court (Carey and Wirth)
LAWS9995 Immigration Moot Court (Kanstroom/Daly)
LAWS5515 National Criminal Procedure Moot Court (Bloom)
LAWS6618
LAWS9982
LAWS3386
LAWS4447
National Environmental Law Moot Court (Plater)
National Moot Court (Carey)
Religious Freedom (Kalscheur)
Saul Lefkowitz IP Moot Court (Liu)
Publications
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LAWS9987
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LAWS9983
(Selection process required)
Journal of Law and Social Justice (Greenfield)
Environmental Affairs Law Review (Plater)
International and Comparative Law Review (Wirth)
Law Review (Wylie)
U.C.C. Reporter Digest (Hillinger)
All 2 credit Independent Studies will satisfy the ABA writing requirement if writing a paper of
30 pages or more.
* Students who opt for the higher number of credits will fulfill the upper level writing
requirement.
**This course will satisfy the ABA writing requirement if the student selects the research paper
option.
Lawyering Skills/Experiential Learning Requirement 2016-2017
Courses will satisfy the “Lawyering Skills/Experiential Learning” requirement at Boston College if
they engage students in real client or simulated lawyering exercises, and may include skills such as
interviewing, counseling, negotiation, fact development and analysis, trial practice, document drafting,
conflict resolution, organization and, management of legal work, collaboration, cultural competency
and self-evaluation. Participation in a third year intermural Moot Court or Mock Trial team will
also satisfy the Experiential Learning requirement.
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LAWS7797
LAWS4471
LAWS8858
LAWS9956
LAWS6605
LAWS4402
LAWS4462
LAWS8887
LAWS4468
LAWS9978
LAWS3334
LAWS3336
LAWS8254
LAWS7770
LAWS4424
Advanced Immigration Clinic (Holper)
Advanced Legal Research (All Sections)
Appellate Advocacy (Daly)
Attorney General Clinical Program (Barnico/Sweeney)
Bankruptcy Law Research (Neary)
BC Defender Clinic (Herrmann)
BC Innocence Program Clinic (Beckman/Whitmore)
BC Innocence Program Clinic Advanced (Whitmore)
BC Innocence Program Externship (Beckman)
BC Law Prosecution Program Clinic (Sarda)
Civil Litigation Clinic (Minuskin/Biondi )
Civil Motions Practice (Brassard)
Community Enterprise Clinic (Tremblay)
Corporate Counsel Externship (Quinn)
Corporations Lab (Quinn)
Criminal Justice Clinic (Herrmann/Sarda)
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LAWS4010
LAWS8339
LAWS4478
LAWS4417
LAWS7793
LAWS3341
LAWS4402
LAWS3374
LAWS9950
LAWS6675
LAWS6642
LAWS4498
LAWS3389
LAWS8667
LAWS3332
LAWS5510
LAWS9925
LAWS7755
LAWS6641
LAWS8239
LAWS4457
LAWS4489
LAWS4453
LAWS9667
LAWS9960
LAWS7898
LAWS7783
LAWS7786
Dispute Negotiations (Crane)
Department of Revenue Tax Clinic (Fatale)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic (Pantin)
Environmental Legal Research (Shear)
Housing Law Clinic (Minuskin)
Immigration Clinic (Holper)
Immigration Practice (Holper)
Innocence Clinic (Beckman/Whitmore)
Insurance & Civil Litigation Research (Breda)
Intellectual Property Research (Shear)
International Legal Research (Chen)
Introduction to Civil Litigation Practice (Minuskin)
Judge and Community Courts (Cratsley)
Juvenile Rights Advocacy I (Sherman)
Legal Practice Externship (Dept)
Litigation Skills: Fact Development (Mahoney)
London Program (Anderson)
Mediation (Gray)
Ninth Circuit Appellate Project (Hong)
Real Estate Transactions, Development and Finance (Levine)
Representing Inmates at Prison Disciplinary Hearing (Tannenbaum)
Research for Criminal Law Practice (Davis)
Semester in Practice (All Sections)
State and Local Government (Levine)
Supreme Court Experience (Greenfield)
Tax Law Research (Neary)
The Government Lawyer (Pelgro)
Trial Practice (All Sections)
UNCTAD Treaty Practicum (Garcia)
Perspectives on Law and Justice Requirement 2016-2017
The “Perspectives on Law and Justice” requirement at Boston College Law School is designed to insure
that students take at least one offering that examines the normative ideal of justice from a theoretical,
historical, or comparative perspective. Students may meet this requirement by completing a designated
two or three credit class that explores the moral, philosophical, and cultural premises underlying legal
doctrines, and how such doctrines can best be shaped and applied to promote a more just society.
Designated classes will engage students in systematic reflection examining the normative ideal of justice
and the role played by law and lawyers in promoting justice.
LAWS3348
LAWS3344
LAWS9922
LAWS4411
LAWS6686
LAWS4464
LAWS6605
Advanced Topics in Civil Rights (Wells)
American Legal Education (Coquillette)
American Legal History (Bilder)
American Legal Theory (Wells)
Anglo-American Legal History (Coquillette)
Authority and Leadership in Professional Life (Sarda)
BC Defender Clinic Seminar (Herrmann)
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LAWS6663
LAWS9979
LAWS3336
LAWS9970
LAWS4513
LAWS3930
LAWS8339
LAWS3339
LAWS9735
LAWS4000
LAWS6660
LAWS4418
LAWS7461
LAWS7749
LAWS7862
LAWS8886
LAWS6632
LAWS4897
LAWS8336
LAWS8329
LAWS8804
LAWS2192
LAWS7780
LAWS6286
LAWS8871
BC Prosecution Seminar (Sarda)
Children’s Law and Public Policy (Sherman)
Civil Litigation Clinic Seminar (Minuskin/Biondi)
Community Enterprise Clinic Class (Tarrant/Tremblay)
Complicity (Kaveny)
Constitutional History: The Framing (Bilder)
Death Penalty (Dowden)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic (Pantin)
Environmental Law Compliance & Performance Counseling (Doliner)
Faith, Morality & Law Seminar (Kaveny)
Feminist Jurisprudence (Young)
Foundations of Western Legal Thought (Kohler)
Housing Law Clinic Seminar (Minuskin)
Human Rights Interdisciplinary Seminar (Kanstroom)
Immigration Law (Kanstroom)
International and Comparative Rights: Economic & Social Rights (Young)
International Law (Barrozo)
Jurisprudence (FitzGibbon)
Justice and the Global Economy (Garcia)
Juvenile Rights Advocacy Practice (Sherman)
Juvenile Rights Advocacy Clinic (Sherman)
Law, Leadership and Social Justice (Sarda)
Professional and Moral Responsibility (Coquillette)
Tax Policy (Ring)
Universal History of Legal Thought (Barrozo)
Wrongful Convictions (Beckman Fall)