Women, Gender and the Law
A Career in Women, Gender, and the Law
Haub Law’s Women, Gender & the Law Path to Practice includes a wide range of courses, clinics, externships, and extracurricular activities for students who are interested in all aspects of gender justice, including children’s rights, family law, LGBTQ issues, legislative reform, the judicial system, and public policy at the local, state, national and international levels. Students should take the foundational course of Family Law, followed by a choice from a menu of intermediate related courses including Feminist Legal Theory; Sexuality, Gender & the Law; Public Health Law; Poverty Law; Asylum & Refugee Law, and more than 30 others. The Path to Practice culminates in a practical, skills-based capstone experience or externship, such as a family court externship, a guided research project, or participation in a legal clinic, among many other opportunities.
At least 15 total credits are recommended for successful completion of the Women, Gender and the Law Path to Practice.
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Students should take at least one Focused Course from this list:
- Advanced Family Law LAW 712A
- Advanced Issues in Criminal Law LAW 606
- Advanced Issues in Criminal Law: Sex Crimes LAW 606A
- Bioethics and Medical Malpractice LAW 868
- Civil Rights Law LAW 814
- Collaborative Law LAW 763
- Critical Race Theory LAW 859
- Employment Discrimination LAW 663
- Employment Law Survey LAW 781
- Feminist Legal Theory LAW 759
- Public Health Law LAW 693
- Sexuality, Gender and the Law LAW 758
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At least four recommended:
- Animal Law LAW 815
- Children and the Law LAW 748
- Elder Law LAW 741
- Environmental Justice Seminar LAW 728
- Estate Planning LAW 700
- Environmental Law Seminar: Human Rights and the Environment LAW 797M
- Health Law in America LAW 867
- Immigration Law LAW 720
- Internet Law-Regulation of Social Media LAW 757A
- International Criminal Law LAW 617
- International Human Rights Seminar LAW 669
- International Law Seminar: Asylum & Comparative Refugee Law LAW 697A
- Juvenile Justice LAW 695
- Law and Education LAW 725
- Matrimonial Practice LAW 732
- Poverty Law LAW 730
- Prisoners' Rights LAW 691
- Privacy and Information Law LAW 705
- Prosecution of War Crimes Seminar LAW 605
- Surrogates Practice LAW 727
- Wills, Trusts and Estates LAW 701
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Student should take at least one skills course from this list:
- Externship: Family Court LAW 694 (3 credits)
- Externship: Legal Services Law 829/Public Health Law LAW 693 (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Externship: Criminal Justice (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Externship: Guided LAW 993FP (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Guided Research LAW 723 (minimum 2 credits) (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related project required; further note that guided research does not satisfy any other skills-related requirement the school may have)
- Advanced Legal Research LAW 670 (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor; sex-related or gender-related final project required)
- Pro Bono Scholars Program participation (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Any seminar in which student submits a paper that would be eligible to earn upper-level writing requirement (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor of seminar; sex-related or gender-related final paper required; further note that a seminar paper does not satisfy any other skills-related requirement the school may have)
- Any semester-long involvement in clinical program offered by John Jay Legal Services (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and Director of John Jay Legal Services; sex-related or gender-related casework required)
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For more information regarding this Path to Practice, contact Professor Bridget Crawford.