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Courses
Courses at Valparaiso University School of Law
Designed to give you a strong base of knowledge upon which to build your legal career, our curriculum represents a wide variety of required and elective courses. During your first year, you will be introduced to the foundations of the law, such as contracts and civil procedure, through the traditional case method of teaching. As an upperclassman, you will explore interdisciplinary connections to gain perspective on the legal system as a whole, as well as study jurisprudence, to gain a philosophical framework from which to view the law. Throughout your law school career you will work to improve your ability to perform accurate research and write effectively in classes devoted specifically to refining those skills.
The first-year curriculum is as follows:
Fall Semester:
Contracts, 4 Cr
Criminal Law, 3 Cr
Civil Procedure, 5 Cr
Legal Writing, Reasoning & Research, 3 Cr
Spring Semeter:
Constitutional Law 1, 3 Cr
Property, 5 Cr
Torts, 4 Cr
Legal Writing, Reasoning, & Appellate Adv., 3 Cr
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