Explore Our Courses
Our courses are organized into broad categories to help you find what you are looking for.
first-year Curriculum
The first-year curriculum is defined by required courses that prepare students for future electives and specialization. These courses provide an important introduction to the law generally, and to law school instruction, study methods, and legal research and writing. During the first-year, all students are required to take Contracts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Property, Torts, Civil Procedure, and Legal Research and Writing.
New first-year Curriculum
Beginning in 2008-2009, first-year JD students will also take The Legal Profession, an innovative course on the economics and values of the profession. Indiana Law's new 1L curriculum responds to a groundbreaking empirical report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as well as the results of Indiana Law's five-year participation in the Law School Survey of Student Engagement.
- Read more about the new curriculum or view the first-year courses for 2008-2009.
Upper-Level Curriculum
After the first-year, students are encouraged to expand their exploration of disciplines and issues. We offer an exceptionally broad array of courses, as well as law journals, conferences, speakers, moot courts, and other activities beyond the classroom. Most students take courses and participate in activities in a wide variety of areas outside the classroom. There is no required progression of courses, even for students who wish to specialize in a particular area.
- Business and Commercial Law
- Communications and Information Law
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Dispute Resolution, Ethics, Clinical, and Skills
- Environmental Law
- Family Law
- Health Law and Biomedicine
- Intellectual Property Law
- International and Comparative Law, and Globalization
- Labor Law
- Property
- Public and Constitutional Law
- Taxation
- Graduate Legal Studies
- Perspectives and advanced courses
- Other courses