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
- Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions
- Deal Litigation Seminar
- Deals I
- Deals II
- Derivatives
- International Business Negotiation
- International Commercial Arbitration
- Law and Economics Seminar II
- Modern Capital Markets and the Financial Crisis
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Organizations and Transactions Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Payment Systems
- Private Equity Investing
- Quantitative Methods: Finance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Regulatory Economics
- Secured Credit
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation: Mandatory Disclosure, Capital Formation, and the IPO Process
- The Financial Crisis
- 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
- Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
- Introduction to Microeconomics
- Law and Culture in American Fiction
- Law and Culture in American Film
- Law and Economics Seminar I
- Law and the Rhetorical Tradition
- Lawyer as Facilitator
- Legal History Workshop
- Legal Profession Workshop: Deconstructing Big Law
- Legal Studies Workshop
- Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health
- Mental Health Law: Forensics
- Myth, Law, and Practice
- Pivotal Moments in American Institutions and Public Law, 1791-Present
- Remedies
- Research Design for Empirical Legal Studies
- Spanish For Lawyers
- Sports Law
- Statistical Inference in Law
- Technological, Economic and Business Forces Transforming the Private Practice of Law
- Wine and the Law
- Writing Workshop: Law and Creativity
Civil Procedure and Litigation
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Legal Writing: Litigation
- Advanced Topics in Federalism
- Civil Procedure II: Multi-Party Litigation
- Conflict of Laws
- Evidence
- Federal Courts
- Legal Strategies: Complex and Aggregate Litigation
- Moot Court
- Narrative Skills and the Law
- Oral Argument Workshop
- Trial Advocacy Workshop
Public Interest Law
- Advanced Community Law Clinic
- Advanced Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Community Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Disability Rights
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Law in Social Enterprises
- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and the Law Practicum
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Clinical Practice
- Immigration Law, Policy and Constitutional Rights
- International Public Interest Lawyering Colloquium
- Law, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Change
- Local Government Law
- Public Interest Law and Practice
- Regulation of the Political Process
- Social Justice Impact Litigation: Issues and Strategies
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
- Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice, and Social Policy
- Law and Economics of Death Penalty
- Sentencing and Corrections
- Supreme Court Simulation Seminar
- Three Strikes Project: Criminal Justice Reform & Post-conviction Litigation
- White Collar Crime
- Advanced Criminal Law and Public Policy II: A Research Practicum
- Advanced Legal Writing: Business Transactions, Technology and Social Enterprise
- Advanced Religious Liberty Clinic
- Better: Decision-Making, Performance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Can philosophical insights or empirical knowledge help us make hard choices?
- Civil Procedure I
- Conflicts, Ethics, and the Academy
- Contracts
- Criminal Law
- Democracy and Incarceration
- Evidence
- Federal Courts
- Federal Litigation
- Group Behavior
- How Can You Represent Those People?
- Human Rights and Film
- Introduction to American Law
- JSD Research Colloquium
- Law, Narrative, and Boundaries
- Legal Ethics
- Legal Research and Writing
- Moot Court
- Oral Argument Workshop
- Privacy and Technology in Law and Practice
- Property
- Searching for Balance
- SPILS Law and Society Seminar
- SPILS Masters Thesis
- SPILS Research Methods Workshop
- Taxation I
- TGR: Dissertation
- The Ethics of Philanthropy
- The Future of Human Rights: Law, Politics, and Social Justice in a Multipolar, Multimedia World
- The Sea Around Us: Ethical, Physical, and Emotional Connections Between Humans and the Ocean
- Three Strikes Project: Criminal Justice Reform in Action
- Torts
- When Bad Things are Done by Good People
- Why are people so sure?
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
- Natural Resources Law and Policy
- Toxic Harms
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: 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
- 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
- International Trade Law
- Legal Cultures and Legal Professionals in Latin America and Latin Europe
- Rethinking Refugee Communities
- State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop
- 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)
- 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
- Advanced Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law: Freedom of Speech
- Constitutional Law: The Fourteenth Amendment
- Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
- Direct Democracy
- Equal Protection: Race and the Law
- Protection of Personality
- Religion and the First Amendment
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Clinical Coursework
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Clinical Methods
- Religious Liberty Clinic: Practice
- Reproductive Justice: Law, Policy and Advocacy
- Terrorism and the Courts
- The United States Senate as a Legal Institution
Family Law
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
- How Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Businesses Solve Legal Problems
- Intellectual Property: Advanced Patents
- Intellectual Property: Commercial Law
- Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Intellectual Property: Licensing
- Intellectual Property: Patents
- Intellectual Property: Strategy for Technology Companies
- Intellectual Property: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
- Internet Torts and Crimes
- Introduction to Intellectual Property
- IP Advanced Topics: The Future of Online Music and Online Video
- Law and Biosciences Workshop
- Law and Biosciences: Neuroscience
- Law, Science, and Technology Colloquium
- Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving
- Legal Technology and Informatics
- Patent Litigation Workshop
- Patent Prosecution
- Why Intellectual Property?: Rationales and Critiques of IP Law