Educating for Success
Curricular Opportunities
 

Legal skills are best learned by doing. Seton Hall offers a wealth of opportunities for skill development, first in the classroom setting in such courses as Patent Claim Drafting, Appellate Advocacy and Negotiation and Drafting Legal Instruments. In their second and third years, students enhance their skills in trial practice, appellate moot court competitions and externships. Seton Hall emphasizes experience to best prepare students for life after law school.  A complete list of course offerings can be found below.  Information on our concentrations in Health Law, Intellectual Property, and Sports & Entertainment Law can be found here.

Clinical, Externship and Pro Bono Offerings

The Center for Social Justice, Seton Hall’s clinical program, provides students with actual practice experience representing local residents with legal problems while testing their own skills in client interviewing, fact investigation, drafting, negotiation, and trial presentation. Students in the Center’s pro bono program perform community service with a variety of public service organizations. During tax season, students in the VITA program, help clients complete and file their tax returns.  Additional information on the Public Interest and Public Service program can be found here.

Externships with federal and state judges and at major health care institutions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Attorney’s Office, the National Labor Relations Board, and the European Court of Justice offer students incomparable opportunities to participate in the work of these important agencies.

Clinical Programs: Impact Litigation Civil Litigation Family Law Immigration and Human Rights Juvenile Justice

Externship Programs:

• New York Stock Exchange
• Securities and Exchange
  Commission
• Internal Revenue Service
• National Labor Relations Board
• United States Attorney
• Federal and State Judges
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Public Defender
• European Court of Justice or Court of First Instance
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Seton Hall Law offers over 50 different externship program opportunities.  Learn more about our Externship Programs

Pro Bono Program:

Service to others is core to Seton Hall Law School's mission.   The pro bono program is a not-for-credit opportunity for Seton Hall students to volunteer 35 hours a semester working in legal positions for nonprofit organizations.
 

• New Jersey Domestic Violence Center

• Project Self-Sufficiency - IOLTA Legal Assistance Program

• Alternatives to Domestic Violence - Legal Advocacy Project

• Association for Children in New Jersey

• Office of the Public Defender

Moot Court Programs:

Seton Hall sponsors students who represent the school in selected interscholastic appellate moot court competitions ("MCCs"). The students participate under the guidance of a faculty advisor for the individual competition and Professor Jodi Anders, Director of Interscholastic Moot Court Competitions. Participating students are eligible for one academic credit in the Spring Semester.
 

Current Competitions
Ronald J. Riccio First-Year Moot Court Competition   Appellate Advocacy   Eugene Gressman Moot Court Competition   Inter-Scholastic Moot Court Competitions

Course Offerings

Required Courses

Civil Procedure, Legal Research & Writing I & II, Contracts, Torts, Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, Appellate Advocacy, evidence, Federal Income Taxation

Center for Social Justice

Civil Litigation Clinic, Community Development Clinic, Family Law Clinic, Housing & Homelessness Clinic, Immigration Law/Human Rights Clinic, Impact Litigation Clinic, Juvenile Justice Clinic

Commercial Law

Advanced Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization, Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance & Reorganization, Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights, Commercial Arbitration, Commercial Law Survey, Insurance

Corporate Law

Acquiring a Business from Drafting to Closing, Advanced Corporate & Securities Practice, Agency, Partnerships & Limited Liability Companies, Business Planning, Corporate Finance, Corporate Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Current Issues in Securities Law, Securities Enforcement & Litigation, Securities Regulation, Tender Offer Litigation

Criminal Law & Procedure

Criminal Procedure: Investigation, Arrest & the Right to Counsel, Criminal Procedure: Prosecution & Adjudication, Criminal Sentencing, Criminal Trial Practice, Death Penalty, Federal Criminal Law, Post Conviction Remedies, Prisoners’ Rights, The Mentally Disabled Criminal Defendant, White Collar Defense, White Collar Prosecutions

Environmental Law

Environmental Issues in Business, Environmental Law, Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation, Hazardous Waste, New Jersey Environmental Law

Health Law

AIDS Law & Policy, Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Case, Current Issues in Food & Drug Administration, Drug Innovation, Regulation & Costs, Drugs & Devices: Law & Current Issues in the Practice, Food, Drugs & Biotechnology, Health Care Access & Payment, Health Care Antitrust, Health Care Fraud & Abuse, Health Employment Issues, Health Law, HIPAA and Health Privacy, The Law of Death & Dying, Law & Genetics, Legal & Ethical Issues in Medicine, Medical Malpractice, Mental Health Law, Non-Profit Organizations, Public Health Law, Non-Profit Organization, Public Health Law, Regulating Research with Human Subjects, Selected Topics in Medical Device Law & Litigation, Transactional Health Law

History & Philosophy

Advocacy & Adjudication, A Look at the Current United States Supreme Court, American Legal History, Canon Law, Catholic Social Doctrine, Chief Justice Hughes’s Influence on the Development of New Jersey Law, English Legal History, European Legal History, History of Legal Thought, History of the Western Legal Tradition, Islamic Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Latinos and the Law, Law & Literature, Law & Morality, Law & the Social Sciences, Natural Law Jurisprudence, Religious Institutions in American Society, Rethinking Religious Liberty, Shakespeare & the Law

Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law

Advanced Entertainment Law, Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property, Advanced Topics in Sports Law, Biotechnology & the Law, Communications Law & Policy, Copyright, Electronic Commerce, Entertainment Contract Negotiation & Drafting, Entertainment Law, Information Privacy Law, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Aspects of Pharmaceutical & Biotech Business, Intellectual Property & Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property Licensing, Internet Law, Law & the Computer, Law in the Music Industry, Mass Media Law, Law & Science, Patent Claim Drafting Patent Law & Practice, Sports Industry Contracts & negotiations, Sports Law, Technology, Human Rights, and Equality, Trademark Registration, Trademark & Unfair Competition, United States Patent Application, Preparation & Prosecution

International Legal Studies

Admirality, Comparative Constitutional Design, Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Income Taxation, Comparative Law, Comparative Legal Traditions, Doing Business Overseas, European Union Business Law Seminar, European Union Law, International & Comparative Employment Law, International Criminal Law, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, The International Law of the Sea, International Litigation & Arbitration, International Securities Regulation, International Trade Law, Selected Problems in International Human Rights

Labor & Employment Law

Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Labor Arbitration, Labor Issues in a Global Economy, Labor Law, Pension & Profit Sharing Plans, Public Employee Labor Law, Topics in Employment Law, Workers’ Compensation

Personal & Family Law

Adoption Law, Advanced Economic Concepts in Divorce Litigation, Children & the Law, Family Law, Marriage & Divorce, Family Mediation, The Family & the State, Poverty Law, Products Liability, Selected Issues in Family Law

Practice, Procedure & Remedies

Civil Trial Practice, Complex commercial Litigation, Complex Litigation, Conflict of Laws, Criminal Trial Practice, Discovery & Depositions in Civil Litigation, Dispute Resolution Processes, Evidence in Practice & in Depth, Expert Witnesses, Federal Courts, Mediation & the Settlement Process, Negotiation, New Jersey Practice, New York Practice, Pretrial Civil Litigation, Remedies

Property & Estates Law

Community Association Law, Elder Law: Financial Aspects, Estate Planning & Drafting, Estate & Trust Administration, Estates & Trusts, Land Finance, New Jersey Land Use Law, Protection of Cultural Resources, Real Estate Development, Zoning, Planning & Land Use Policy

Public Law – Government

Administrative Law, Antitrust, Aviation Law, Banking Law, Election Law, Law & Education, Legislation, Selected Topics in Education Law, State & Local Government, The Supreme Court, The Takings Doctrine

Public Law – Protection of Rights

Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Sources of Civil Rights Enforcement, Consumer Law, Current Constitutional Issues, Disability Law, Equality in American Law, The First Amendment, The First Amendment in the Twenty-First Century, Gender & the Law, Immigration & Naturalization, Law & Sexuality, New Jersey Constitutional Law, Problems of Interpretation, Religion & the First Amendment, Selected Topics in Immigration Law, State Constitutional Law, Terrorism and Civil Liberties

Taxation

Constitutional Limits on State & Local Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Estate Planning & Drafting, Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates, International Tax Planning, Non-Profit Organizations, Taxation of Partnerships & Limited Liability Companies, Tax Policy, Tax Practice & Procedure, Wealth Transfer Taxation