Opening doors to justice is integral to the mission of Oregon Law. Our Law and Public Policy concentration is designed for students interested in developing skills required for policy-oriented positions and public sector legal practice.
Requirements
To complete the requirements of the concentration, you must satisfactorily complete four (4) of the following courses:
- Administrative Law
- Legislation
- Legislative Issues Workshop
- Local Government Law
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofit Clinic
- State Administrative Law
You must also satisfactorily complete seven (7) courses total from the following courses:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Litigation Strategy
- Animal Law
- Arbitration
- Children and the Law
- Civil Practice Clinic
- Climate Change Law and Policy
- Criminal Defense Clinic
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic
- Disability Law
- Domestic Violence Civil Clinic
- Domestic Violence Protective Order Clinic
- Employment Law
- Environmental Clinic
- Federal Jurisdiction
- Human Rights Law
- Human Rights and the Environment
- Immigration Law
- Indian Law
- Innovation in Criminal Justice
- Interview and Counsel
- Judicial Field Placement
- Labor Law
- Mediation
- Negotiation
- Public Service Field Placement (Nonprofit organizations or government)
- Race, Gender, Bias, and the Law
- Remedies
- Trial Practice
- Tribal Courts and Tribal Law
- Water Resources Law
- Worker’s Compensation Law
- Women and the Law
In addition to completing the curriculum referenced above, you must write a high quality professional academic research paper concerning public interest law or public policy issues.
A full list of requirements and procedures is available to current students in MyLaw. The information contained on this page is only a summary of the academic requirements.
For specific course requirements for individual concentrations, please go to “Forms” under the Registrar’s tab in MyLaw.