Courses
Your interests, your future. At Fordham Law, you can select from nearly 300 elective courses that will help you discover your legal interests while developing expertise in specific legal areas.
A Representative Sample of Electives
Corporate & Finance
Corporate & Finance
  • Banking Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Broker-Dealer
  • Business Bankruptcy
  • Commercial Arbitration
  • Commercial Drafting
  • Commercial Finance/Secured Transactions
  • Commercial Paper
  • Commercial Transactions
  • Comparative Corporate Law
  • Corporations
  • Corporate Crisis Management
  • Corporate Crisis Management and International Investigations
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Finance: Legal Aspects
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Reorganization Under Bankruptcy Code
  • Corporate Strategy and Taxation
  • Corporate Sustainability, Transnational Business, and Human Rights
  • Corporate Tax
  • E-Commerce
  • Employment Law
  • European Union Business Law
  • Financial Institutions I and II
  • Financial Institutions: Banking
  • Financial Institutions: Non-Banking
  • Financial Services Regulation
  • Global Capital Markets and Governance
  • Global Corporate Compliance
  • Globalization of American Corporations: Tax and Regulatory Policy
  • Income Taxation
  • Insurance Law and Litigation
  • International Banking
  • International Business Transactions
  • International Trade Law
  • International Commercial Law Seminar
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Introduction to the Deal
  • Law and Economics
  • Law and Professional Sports
  • Law Firm as a Business
  • Law Firm Marketing
  • Litigating the Corporate Case
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Partnership and LLC Law
  • Public Finance Law and Practice
  • Real Estate Drafting
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Transactions
  • Securities Litigation
  • Securities Regulation
  • Securities Regulation: The Broker- Dealer Perspective
  • Securities Regulation Drafting
  • Securitization
  • Title VII Dodd-Frank Derivatives
  • Compliance
  • Trusts and Wills
Litigation & Civil Practice
Litigation & Civil Practice
  • Civil Litigation Drafting
  • Commercial Arbitration
  • Complex Litigation
  • Conflicts of Laws
  • Copyright Litigation
  • Criminal Litigation Drafting
  • Discovery and Pretrial Process
  • Evidence
  • Federal Courts
  • Labor and Employment Arbitration
  • Land Use Law
  • Litigating the Corporate Case
  • New York Practice
  • Patent Litigation
  • Professional Responsibility: Civil Litigation

Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning
  • Advanced Trial Advocacy
  • Externships (sample)
  • Civil Government and Non-Profit
  • Criminal Justice
  • Intellectual Property/Media
  • Housing Litigation
  • Judicial
  • New York City Council
  • Civil Government Litigation
Clinics
Clinics
  • Community Economic Development
  • Consumer Litigation
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Criminal Defense
  • Democracy and the Constitution
  • Entrepreneurial Law
  • Family Advocacy
  • Federal Litigation
  • Federal Tax
  • Immigrant Rights
  • International Human Rights
  • International Law and Development in Africa
  • Legislative and Policy Advocacy
  • Mediation
  • Queens DA Prosecution Clinic
  • Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law
  • Securities Litigation and Arbitration

Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration Practice
  • Arbitration Practicum
  • Conflict Management Systems Design
  • International Arbitration
  • Introduction to Arbitration
  • Mediation: International and Comparative Perspectives
  • Negotiation and Mediation
  • Fundamental Lawyering Skills
  • Introduction to the Deal
  • Trial and Arbitration Advocacy

Constitutional Law & Policy

Constitutional Law & Policy
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Constitutional Rights and Human Rights in Comparative Perspective
  • Constitutional Torts
  • Current Supreme Court Controversies
  • First Amendment
  • Language of the Constitution
  • Law of the City of New York
  • State and Local Government
  • United States Constitutional History
  • United States Foreign Relations Law

Criminal Law

Criminal Law
  • Anti-Money Laundering Law
  • Complex Criminal Litigation
  • Criminal Law Theory
  • Criminal Litigation Drafting
  • Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
  • Criminal Procedure: Investigative Evidence
  • New York Criminal Procedure
  • Psychology and Criminal Law
  • Terrorism and Law in the 21st Century
  • Trial Techniques
  • White Collar Crime
  • Environmental Law

Environmental Law

Environmental Law
  • Energy Law
  • Environmental Law
  • International Environmental Law
  • Environmental Deal Making and Strategy
  • Climate Change: Law and Policy

Fashion Law

Fashion Law
  • Fashion Law Practicum
  • Fashion Law and International Trade
  • Fashion Ethics, Sustainability, and Development
  • Fashion Law and Finance
  • Fashion Licensing
  • Fashion Modeling Law
  • Fashion Retail Law
  • Summer Fashion Law Boot Camp
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
  • Advanced Trademark Law: U.S. and Multinational Law and Practice
  • Art and Cultural Heritage Law
  • Blockchain and Smart Contracts
  • Blockchain, Virtual Currencies, and Tokens: Business and Legal Issues
  • Copyright Law
  • Digital Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Digital Copyright
  • European Union Information Law and Policy
  • Fintech and Artificial Intelligence: Regulatory and Corporate Law Framework
  • Intellectual Property and Advanced Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Intellectual Property Law and Design
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Litigation
  • Patent Practice Skills
  • Programming for Lawyers
  • Smart Securities and Blockchain Regulations
  • Technological Change & the Law
  • Trademark Law

International & Human Rights

International & Human Rights
  • Admiralty and International Maritime Law
  • Antitrust – International Cross Border Mergers
  • Aviation Law
  • Comparative Antitrust Law and Enforcement
  • Comparative Constitutional Law: Challenges to Democracy
  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Contemporary Issues as to Nuclear Weapons and International Law
  • Corporate Sustainability, Transnational Business and Human Rights
  • Crimmigration: The Intersection of Immigration and Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Human Rights Law
  • Immigration Law
  • International Business Transactions
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Commercial Law Seminar
  • International Human Rights Scholarship
  • International Law
  • International Litigation and Arbitration
  • International Taxation
  • International Trade Law
  • Labor Law in International Context
  • Mediation: International and Comparative Perspective
  • National Security Law
  • National Security Law and Policy in the 21st Century
  • Protection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Under International Human Rights Law
  • Quantitative Trading and United States Market Structure Regulation
  • Refugee Law and Policy

Labor Law

Labor Law
  • Disability Law
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Employment Law
  • Labor and Employment Arbitration
  • Labor and Employment Law Drafting
  • Labor Law
  • Law and Professional Sports

Legal History & Legal Theory

Legal History & Legal Theory
  • Natural Law: Reason, Rights, and Justice
  • American Legal History
  • Criminal Law Theory
  • Critical Legal Theories
  • Critical Race Theory
  • English Legal History
  • History of Commerce and Law
  • United States Constitutional History
  • Family Law
  • LGBT Rights Colloquium
  • Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

Property/Real Estate Law

Property/Real Estate Law
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Transactions
  • Cooperatives and Condominiums
  • Land Use
  • Land Use and Real Estate Development
  • Affordable Housing Law: Practice and Policy
  • Real Estate Drafting
  • Residential Landlord Tenant Law
  • Clinical Housing Litigation Seminar and Fieldwork
  • Community Economic Development Clinic Seminar and Fieldwork

Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility
  • Advanced Seminar in Public Interest Lawyering
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution Ethics
  • Corporate Counsel
  • Criminal Advocacy
  • Lawyers and Justice
  • Multinational Practice Public Interest Law Survey

Public Interest Law

Public Interest Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Advanced Seminar in Public Interest Lawyering
  • Consumer Protection Law
  • Disability Law
  • Election Law
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Law
  • Ethics in Criminal Advocacy
  • Ethics in Public Interest Law
  • First Amendment
  • Health Care Law Advances
  • Health Care Policy and the Law
  • Law and Medicine
  • Law and Policy of Climate Change
  • Human Rights
  • Immigration Law
  • International Human Rights
  • Introduction to Health Care Law
  • Juvenile Justice Survey
  • Nonprofit Law and Organizations
  • Poverty Law
  • Practice of Law in the Public Sector

Tax Law

Tax Law
  • Accounting for Lawyers
  • Corporate Strategy and Taxation
  • Corporate Tax
  • Estate Administration
  • Estate and Gift Taxation Planning
  • Globalization of American Corporations
  • Income Taxation
  • International Taxation
  • Nonprofit Organization
  • Tax Planning and Transactions
  • Tax Policy and Distributive Policy
  • Trusts and Wills

Technology

Technology
  • Blockchain and Smart Contracts
  • Blockchain, Virtual Currencies and Tokens: Business and Legal Issues
  • Compliance, Technology and Financial Services
  • Digital Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Digital Copyright
  • E-Commerce
  • E-Law in the Global Setting: Data Safeguards and Electronic Evidence Challenges
  • Electronic Discovery and Information Governance
  • Fintech and Artificial Intelligence: Regulatory and Corporate Law Framework
  • Information Law Survey
  • Information Privacy Law
  • Internet Based Crimes
  • Law Practice Technology
  • Programming for Lawyers