Curriculum Plans by Areas of Study

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in business, corporate, and/or tax law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason. If you are interested in business, corporate, and/or tax law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

If you intend to pursue a Concentration in Business Law or Corporate Law (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. You may select any courses from among the courses listed below to complete the required 12 concentration credits for a certificate of concentration in Business Law or Corporate Law. We strongly recommend that you take “Business Associations” and “Contracts I” since they are foundational courses.

Business/Corporate Courses:

• Business Associations
• Commercial Paper
• Consumer Law (Seminar)
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance Law
• Drafting Int’l Commercial Documents
• International Business Transactions
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Securities Regulation
• Shareholder Litigation
• Small Business Finance
• Venture Capital and Dealmaking
• Transactional Practice for LLMs

Commercial Courses: 

• Business Bankruptcy
• Banking Law
• Commercial Paper
• Contracts I & II
• Debtor and Creditor Law
• Remedies
• Sales
• Secured Transactions

Tax Courses: 

• Business and Tax Legal Research
• Federal Income Taxation
• Taxation of Business Enterprises/Corporate Tax
• State and Local Taxation
• Tax Policy (Seminar)

Specialized Courses:

•  Accounting for Lawyers
• Business and Human Rights
• Business of Law (Seminar)

Related Courses: 

• Arbitration
• China Connection
• Client Development for the New Lawyers
• Compliance Externship
• Law Externships (externships with corporations’ legal departments, non-profit organizations, and governmental economic development agencies)
• Employment Discrimination Law
• Employment Law
• Federal Antitrust
• Franchise Law
• Health Care Agreements and Transactions
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Commercial Arbitration and
• Mediation
• Labor Law
• Lawyers as Leaders
• Legal Negotiation
• Marketing Law
• Negotiation and Mediation
• Nonprofit Law
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Finance
• Regulatory Compliance
• Sports Law
• Trademark Law
• White Collar Crime

Faculty resource list: 

• Felix Chang
• Daniel Chow
• Larry Garvin
• Mohamed Helal
• Creola Johnson
• Paul Rose
• Guy Rub
• Todd Starker
• Paige Wilson
• Rebecca Wolitz

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in children and family law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason. If you are interested in children and family law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Core Courses: 

• Adoption Law
• Advanced Family Law
• Anatomy of a Divorce Trial
• Family and Divorce Mediation
• Children and the Law
• Family Law

Related Courses:

• Administrative Law
• Criminal Procedure: Investigation
• Critical Theory/Critical Lawyering
• Federal Income Taxation
• Immigration Law
• Law Externship
• Legal Negotiation
• Legislation Clinic (only 1 seat reserved for LLM students each semester)
• Negotiation and Mediation
• Law and Religion
• Local Government Law
• Poverty Law
• Sex, Sexuality, and Law
• Wills, Trusts & Estates

Faculty resource list:

• Ruth Colker
• Katherine Federle
• Kimberly Jordan
• Marc Spindelman

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in civil litigation or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason. If you are interested in civil litigation, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Core Courses: 

• Civil Procedure I & II
• Evidence
• Federal Courts

Recommended Courses: 

• Depositions
• Pretrial Litigation
• (pre-requisite: Civil Procedure 1)
• Trial Practice (pre-requisite: Evidence)

Specialized Courses:

• An Advocate’s View of the Changing Court (short course)
• Advanced Legal Research: Litigation & ADR
• Appellate Practice
• Consumer Class Actions & Complex Litigation
• E-Discovery Law & Practice
• Evidence & Trial Practice (seminar)
• Litigation Finance
• Products Liability
• Shareholder Litigation (short course)
• Storytelling at Trial (short course)

Related Courses:

• Advanced Communication Skills for Lawyers
• Arbitration
• Family & Divorce Mediation
• Legal Negotiation
• Negotiation & Mediation
• U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Making
• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies)

Lawyering Skills Program:

• LLM International Arbitration Moot Competition
• Lawrence Negotiation Competition

Faculty resource list:

•  Elizabeth Cooke
• Arthur Greenbaum
• Kimberly Jordan
• Margaret Kwoka
• Anne Ralph
• Colleen Settineri

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in criminal law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in criminal law and procedure, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

If you intend to pursue a Concentration in Criminal Law and Procedure (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. We strongly recommend that you take “Criminal Law”, “Criminal Procedure: Adjudication or Investigations”, and “Evidence”. You may select any other courses from among the courses listed below to complete the remaining concentration credits required for a certificate of concentration in Criminal Law and Procedure.

Core Courses:

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
• Criminal Procedure: Investigations
• Evidence

Key Elective Courses:

• Computer Crime & Surveillance (seminar)
• Depositions
• Drug Crimes
• Drug Enforcement and the Bill of Rights (seminar)
• Evidence and Trial Practice (seminar; pre-requisite: Evidence)
• International Criminal Law (seminar)
• Prisons, Police, and Borders (seminar)
• Reimagining Public Safety (seminar)
• Restorative Justice (seminar)
• Trial Practice (pre-requisite: Evidence)
• Story Telling at Trial (students are recommended to take “Trial Practice” course before or simultaneously with this course)
• Sentencing Law and Policy
• War Crimes (seminar)
• White Collar Crime

Related Courses:

• Constitutional Law
• Human Rights
• Immigration Law
• Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform (seminar)
• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies, such as courts, legal aid agencies, immigration and asylum advocacy groups, federal, state and local prosecutor’ office, etc.)

Faculty resource list: 

• Amna Akbar
• Douglas Berman
• Joshua Dressler
• Katherine Federle
• Sean Hill
• Grace Li
• Alan Michaels
• Ric Simmons

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

Increasingly, courts are moving beyond traditional trials and appeals to help clients find satisfactory resolutions to their agreements. Negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other processes are helping parties reach a satisfying outcome. Courses in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) benefit students interested in litigation, transactional, and government practice as well as those interested in management and leadership.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in dispute resolution or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in dispute resolution, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

If you intend to pursue a Concentration in Dispute Resolution (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. You may select any courses from among the core, specialized, related, and civil discourse courses listed below to complete the required 12 concentration credits for a certificate of concentration in Dispute Resolution. We strongly recommend that you take at least two core courses.

Core Courses: 

• Arbitration
• Arbitration Practice
• Dispute Resolution Survey
• Dispute Resolution Colloquium (Seminar)
• Dispute Resolution:
• Theory and Process
• Dispute Systems Design
• Issues in Arbitration (seminar)
• International Dispute Resolution
• Legal Negotiation
• Negotiation and Mediation

Specialized Courses: 

• Family & Divorce Mediation
• Dispute Resolution in the Digital Age
• International Commercial Arbitration (1-week course)
• Jurisprudence of ADR
• Mediation Clinic (1 seat reserved for LLMs each semester)
• Resolving Community Civil Rights Disputes (2-week course)
• Restorative Justice

Related Courses: 

• Adv Legal Research: Litigation & ADR

• Employment Discrimination Law

• Ethnic Conflict

• Labor Law

• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies)

• Middle East Conflict

• Special Education Advocacy

Civil Discourse courses: 

• Difficult Conversations in Polarized Times
• Facilitating Potentially Contentious Meetings
• Mastering Difficult Conversations & Negotiation: Essential Leadership Skills for Future Lawyers and Business Leaders (1-week course)
• Social Media and Conflict

Faculty resource list: 

• Sarah R. Cole
• Ellen Deason
• Bill Froehlich
• Katrina Lee
• John Quigley
• Amy Schmitz
• Joseph Stulberg

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in employment and labor law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in employment and labor law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

If you intend to pursue a Concentration in Employment and Labor Law (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. You can select any courses from among the courses listed below to complete the required 12 concentration credits for a certificate of concentration in Employment and Labor Law. We strongly recommend that you take at least two core courses.

Core Courses: 

• Employment Discrimination Law
• Employment Law
• Employee Benefits
• Labor Law

Key Elective Courses:

• Arbitration Disability Access (seminar)
• Labor & the Constitution (seminar)
• Legal Negotiation
• Negotiation & Mediation
• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies)
• Sexual Harassment (seminar)

Faculty resource list: 

• Sarah Cole
• Ruth Colker
• L. Camille Hébert
• Courtlyn Roser-Jones

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

International law consists of two distinct parts. First, public international law includes the rules that govern the relations among nation-states to create order, prevent war, and facilitate cooperation. It also includes the study of several organizations that help govern the international community (e.g. the United Nations). The second focus of the area is on international business law, which concerns the rights and obligations associated with international exchanges of goods, services, and capital. It, too, includes the study of several organizations that help govern international business and trade (e.g. the World Trade Organization).

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in international law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in dispute resolution, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have. If you intend to pursue a Concentration in International and Comparative Law (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. You may select any courses from among the courses listed below to complete the required 12 concentration credits for a certificate of concentration in International and Comparative Law.

Core Courses: 

• International Law
• Human Rights

Key Elective Courses:

• Business and Human Rights
• Ethnic Conflict (Seminar)
• International Business Transactions
• International Dispute Resolution
• International Commercial Arbitration (1-week course)
• Middle East Conflict (seminar)
• War Crimes (seminar)
• Unconventional Warfare (seminar)

Related Courses:

• Dispute Resolution in the Digital Age
• National Security Law and Process

Faculty resource list: 

• Daniel Chow
• Mohamed Helal
• John Quigley
• Dakota Rudesill
• Amy Schmitz

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in health law and policy or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in health law and policy, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Core Courses: 

• Administrative Law
• Health Law
• Public Health Law

Key Elective Courses: 

• Biotechnology Law and Policy
• Disability Access (seminar)
• Food and Drug Law
• Health Care Agreements and Transactions
• Health Care Payment and Policy (1-week course)
• Health Equity, Policy, and Advocacy
• Topics in Disability Law (seminar)

Related Courses: 

• Compliance Externship
• Forensic Mental Health Law
• Legislation Clinic (1 seat reserved for LLM students each semester)
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Patent Law
• Patient-Client Care
• Privacy
• Regulatory Compliance

Faculty resource list: 

• Micah Berman
• Ruth Colker
• Efthimios Parasidis
• Marc Spindelman
• Rebecca Wolitz
• Ruqaiijah Yearby
• Patricia Zettler

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in intellectual property, privacy, and technology law, or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in intellectual property, privacy, and technology law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

If you intend to pursue a Concentration in Intellectual Property and Technology Law (and earn a certificate of concentration alongside your LLM degree), you will be required to successfully complete at least 12 credits in this area of law out of the 24 credit hours required for the LLM degree. You may select any courses from among the courses listed below to complete the 12 concentration credits required for a certificate of concentration in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. We strongly recommend that you take at least two core courses.

Core Courses: 

• Copyright Law
• Introduction to Intellectual Property Law
• Patent Law
• Privacy
• Trademark

Specialized Courses: 

• Big Data Law and Policy (seminar)
• Biotechnology Law and Policy (seminar)
• International Intellectual Property
• Law of Cyberspace
• Patent Prosecution
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
• Regulation and Compliance

Related Courses: 

• Compliance Externship
• Law Externships (externships with non-
• profit organizations and governmental agencies)
• Dispute Resolution in the Digital Age
• E-Discovery Law and Practice
• Information Governance Workshop: Transparency and Privacy
• Franchise Law
• Marketing Law

Faculty resource list:

• Bryan Choi
• Daniel Chow
• Dennis Hirsch
• Guy Rub
• Dakota Rudesill
• Amy Schmitz
• Rebecca Wolitz

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in public interest or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in public interest, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Courses with broad relevance:

• Administrative Law
• Federal Courts
• Sem: Lawyering and Social Movements
• Lawyers as Leaders
• Legislation Clinic (1 seat reserved for LLMs each semester)
• Nonprofit Law
• Sem: Poverty Law
• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies)

Specialized Courses: 

• Children and the Law
• Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
• Criminal Procedure: Investigation
• Disability Access (seminar)
• Election Law
• Employment Law
• Employment Discrimination Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• First Amendment
• Health Equity, Policy, and Advocacy
• Immigration Law
• Law and Religion
• Prisons, Police & Borders (seminar)
• Public Health Law
• Reimagining Public Safety (seminar)
• Resolving Community Civil Rights Disputes (2-week course)
• Restorative Justice (seminar)
• Sex, Sexuality, and the Law
• Social Identity, Consciousness, and the Law
• Topics in Disability Law and Policy (seminar)

Faculty resource list:

• Amna Akbar
• Emily Brown
• Olwyn Conway
• Ruth Colker
• Katherine Federle
• Arthur Greenbaum
• Kimberly Jordan
• Sean Hill
• Kathy Northern
• Paul Rose
• Marc Spindelman

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in real estate law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in real estate law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Core Courses:

• Commercial Leasing
• Land Use
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Finance
• Wills, Trusts and Estates

Related Courses: 

• Administrative Law
• Business Associations
• Environmental Law
• Federal Income Taxation
• Secured Transactions
• State and Local Taxation
• Taxation of Business Enterprises

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in U.S. regulatory and government practice and/or administrative law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in U.S. regulatory and government practice and/or administrative, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Recommended Courses:

• Administrative Law
• Federal Courts
• Federal Income Taxation
• Legislation Clinic (1 seat reserved for LLMs each semester)
• Regulatory Compliance
• State and Local Government Law
• Law Externships (externships with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies)

Specialized Courses: 

• Compliance Externship
• Disability Access (seminar)
• Education Law (seminar)
• Election Law
• Employment Discrimination Law
• Employment Law
• Environmental Law
• Food and Drug Law
• Immigration Law
• Information Governance Workshop: Transparency and Privacy
• Labor Law
• Marketing Law
• National Security Law
• Nonprofit Law
• Public Health Law
• Public Utilities (seminar)
• Real Estate Development
• Securities Regulation
• State and Local Taxation
• Surveillance and Secrecy (seminar)
• Tax Policy (seminar)

Faculty resource list:

• Terri Enns
• Edward B. Foley
• Steven Huefner
• Margaret Kwoka
• Dakota Rudesill
• Patricia Zettler

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.

This curriculum plan aims to help you select courses if you are interested in a career in environmental law or focusing your studies on this area. We strongly encourage every student to pursue a broad legal education that includes courses beyond your area of core interest, such as bar exam courses, courses that help a student hone their “soft” lawyering skills, including communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills, courses relevant to a student’s professional interests and goals, and courses that appeal to a student for any particular reason.

If you are interested in environmental law, the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Affairs is available to meet with students for general academic advising. Please e-mail Dean Ukeme Awakessien Jeter at awakessienjeter.1@osu.edu to request an appointment or to ask any questions you may have.

Core Courses:

•  Environmental Law
• Energy Law
• Land Use
• Public Utilities
• Torts

Related Courses: 

• Administrative Law
• Property Law
• Real Estate Development
• Externships with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

Note: This document is provided for advising purposes only. Not all courses listed here will be taught each year. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the schedule of courses for each academic year on Moritz LLM Program Academic Information page. For a full list of all course offerings at Moritz, please visit here.