General LL.M.
The General LL.M. Program is designed to provide additional education in selected areas of study such as criminal law, environmental law, health care law, intellectual property, or labor and employment law. The degree is ideal for attorneys seeking in-depth training in an area of law in which they currently practice, as well as for those seeking to develop a new area of practice.
Available courses come from the upper-division School of Law curriculum and are taught by our distinguished full-time and adjunct faculty. Courses taken abroad through the university-sponsored Institute on International and Comparative Law may be credited toward the degree and, in appropriate circumstances, the assistant dean for Graduate Programs may approve a limited number of graduate level courses to be taken outside the law school.
Proposed areas of concentration are approved prior to admission to the program. To secure approval, applicants work closely with the Graduate Programs coordinator to design a program of study that is of the greatest interest and benefit to the candidate, as well as consistent with available law school resources.
For more information about the General LL.M. Program, visit our online brochure (PDF).
Summary of Degree Requirements
To receive the General LL.M. degree, a candidate must successfully complete 24 credits of appropriate course work, including a minimum of ten credits in the approved area of concentration and at least four writing credits, two of which must be in area of concentration.
Full details of the degree requirements may be found in the School of Law Academic Rules in the Student Handbook.
Required Courses
As part of the required 24 credits, all candidates for the General LL.M. degree must successfully complete a perspectives course for a minimum of two credits. A perspectives course is one that contains a significant jurisprudential, comparative or interdisciplinary component.
Degree Clock
Candidates may enroll on a full-time or part-time basis and have up to six years from the date of enrollment to complete all degree requirements.
Concentration Courses
The following are examples of recently offered courses that are eligible for concentration credit in the General LL.M. Program. See course offerings for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Criminal Law
- Advanced California Criminal Evidence
- Corrections & Sentencing
- Criminal Clinic
- Criminal Appeals Clinic
- Criminal Procedure II
- Death Penalty Seminar
- Evidence Advocacy Lab
- Federal Courts
- Interviewing & Counseling
- Perspectives in Criminal Justice
- Post Conviction Remedies
- Scientific Evidence
- White Collar Offenses
- Independent Supervised Research
Please note: A maximum of six credits of clinical field experience may be applied to the 24 required credits. Fully experienced practitioners in the field will not receive credit for clinical experience.
Environmental Law
- Administrative Law
- Contemporary Water Law Issues
- Environmental Clinic
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Law Seminar
- Federal Land Law
- International Environmental Law
- Land Use Clinic
- Land Use Planning
- Law of the Sea
- Statutory Interpretation
- Independent Supervised Research
Health Care Law
- Administrative Law
- Agency Internship
- Bioethics and the Law
- Biotechnology Law
- Health Care Financing
- Mental Health Clinic
- Law and Mental Disorder
- Statutory Interpretation
- Understanding Science and Scientific Methods
- Independent Supervised Research
Intellectual Property
- Biotechnology Law
- Communications Law and Policy
- The Constitution and the Internet
- Cyberspace Law
- Intellectual Property Seminar
- International Intellectual Property
- Intro. to Intellectual Property
- Patents and Trade Secrets
- Trademarks Seminar
- Independent Supervised Research
Labor & Employment Law
- Deferred Compensation
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Employment Litigation
- Gender & the Law
- Gender Discrimination
- Labor Law
- Independent Supervised Research
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