CERTIFICATE
Disability Law and Policy Program
The Disability Law and Policy Program Certificate recognizes students who have taken a concentration of courses in the new and expanding field of disability law and policy. This certificate program attracts students interested in a career in disability law as well as students with experience or interest in disability and related areas of law such as civil rights law, children's rights, labor and employment law, and international human rights.
| Electives |
- Administrative Law
- Comparative Law
- Health Law
- Poverty Law
- Decedent's Estates and Trusts
- Federal Courts
- Bioethics/Genetics and the Law
- International Law
- Mediation in Family Law
- Labor Law
- Law and Market Economy
- Externships (if related to family law)
- Lawyering Skills: Family Law
- Lawyering Skills: Basic
- Family Law
- Alternate Dispute Resolution
- Elder Law
- International Human Rights Law
- Jurisprudence of Human Rights
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Lawyer as Negotiator
- Children and the Law
- Immigration Law
- Race and the Law
- Advanced Family Issues
- General Counsel
- Advanced Constitutional Law
- Advanced Legal Research
- International, Foreign, and Comparative Law Research Topics
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Students interested in obtaining the Disability Law and Policy Program Certificate apply at the beginning of the applicant's last semester of law school. Students must complete the Certificate Application and attach an unofficial transcript as well as a copy of their paper satisfying the writing requirement. Students who have met all the requirements and are in good academic standing at the College of Law will be granted the Certificate.
Certificate Requirements
- Disability Law (3 credits)
- Advanced Disability Law or Education Law or International Human Rights and Disability Law (each course is 3 credits and meets the COL writing requirement) or one disability-related graduate course outside of the College of Law (3 credits)
- Disability Rights Clinic(12 credits) or Externship (at a placement that provides experience in disability law; 4 credits for summer externship; 8-10 credits for academic year externship)
- Three electives courses
- Students must complete the College of Law writing requirement on a topic related to disability law.