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Law BA/Law JD

University at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY

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Program
Award
Law BA/Law JD
Credential class
ceterms:DoctoralDegree
Catalog edition
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
196088
CourseShelf checklist
CK_196088_a1a6f701
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Admission Requirements

2 items
  1. Minimum overall and UB GPA of 2.000.
    Not resolved to a course
  2. Minimum grade of C (2.000) required in any Law BA core courses already taken (LAW 101; LAW 201; LAW 202; and LAW 301 or LAW 302).
    Not resolved to a course

Course Requirements

0 items

    Undergraduate Law Core (12 credits)

    5 items
    1. LAW 101LEC
      Introduction to the American Legal System
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. LAW 201LEC
      Common Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. LAW 202LEC
      Public Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. LAW 301LEC
      Legal Reasoning
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. LAW 302LEC
      Legal Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    Three Intermediate Law courses (9 credits)

    18 items
    1. LAW 301LEC
      Legal Reasoning
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. LAW 302LEC
      Legal Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. LAW 303LEC
      Lawyers and Clients
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. LAW 305LEC
      Introduction to Criminal Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. LAW 306LEC
      Family Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. LAW 307LEC
      Contract Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. LAW 308LEC
      Intellectual Property Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. LAW 309LEC
      Introduction to Business Organizations and Business Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. LAW 310LEC
      Employment Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. LAW 311LEC
      Banking and Financial Compliance
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    11. LAW 315LEC
      Specialized Criminal Prosecutions
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. LAW 313LEC
      Sports Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. LAW 314LEC
      Federal Income Tax Law and Policy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. LAW 317LEC
      The Politics of Sustainability
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    15. LAW 319LEC
      Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives & International Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    16. LAW 320LEC
      Real Estate Transactions
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    17. LAW 322LEC
      Health Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    18. LAW 323LEC
      Understanding Cyberlaw
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    Two Advanced Law Seminars (6 credits minimum)

    14 items
    1. LAW 401LEC
      American Legal History
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. LAW 402LEC
      Special Topics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. LAW 404LEC
      The Jury Trial
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. LAW 405LEC
      Law and Social Change
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. LAW 406SEM
      Law, Politics and Mass Incarceration
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. LAW 407SEM
      Race, Law, and the Built Environment
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. LAW 408LEC
      Capital Punishment
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. LAW 409LEC
      Immigration Law & Policy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. LAW 415LEC
      Legal Procedure for NYS Civil, NYS Criminal and Federal Practice
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. LAW 416SEM
      Criminal Court Advocacy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    11. LAW 473LEC
      Information Privacy Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. LAW 495TUT
      Supervised Undergraduate Teaching
      Not resolved to a course
      1-4
    13. LAW 499TUT
      Independent Study
      Not resolved to a course
      1-3
    14. LAW 496TUT
      Law Internship
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    One Critical Reasoning Methods course (3 credits)

    15 items
    1. APY 106LEC
      Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. ECO 182LD
      Introduction to Microeconomics
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    3. ENG 258LEC
      Mysteries
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. ENG 276LEC
      Literature and the Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. GGS 228SEM
      Introduction to Feminist Theories
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. JDS 284LEC
      Justice in Bibles, Law, and Philosophy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. PHI 107LEC
      Ethics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. PHI 115LEC
      Critical Thinking
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. PHI 162LEC
      Law, Morality, Authority
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. PHI 215LEC
      Symbolic Logic
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    11. PHI 380LEC
      Nineteenth Century Enlightenment from Kant to Nietzsche
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. PSC 200LEC
      Empirical Political Science
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. SOC 293LEC
      Social Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. SSC 213LEC
      Social Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    15. SW 150LEC
      Social Media in Social Change
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    One Problems and Issues course (3 credits)

    22 items
    1. GGS 324SEM
      Controlling Reproduction: Reproductive Rights, Policies, Practices, and Technologies
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. HIS 354LEC
      American Transition, 1877-1901
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. HIS 356LEC
      Social History of Women in the U.S., 1875-Present
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. HIS 379LEC
      African-American History, 1877 to Present
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. IDS 304SEM
      Indigenous Climate Justice
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. IDS 436SEM
      Not Recognized: Struggle for Indigenous Rights, Land, and Acknowledgement
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. PSC 303LEC
      Constitutional Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. PSC 317LEC
      Environmental Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. PSC 341LEC
      Political Regime Change
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. SOC 307LEC
      Criminology
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    11. SOC 309LEC
      Social Change
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. SOC 311LEC
      Drugs and Society
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. SOC 324LEC
      Sociology of Immigration
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. SOC 328LEC
      Social Inequality
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    15. SOC 331LEC
      Wealth and Poverty
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    16. SOC 337LEC
      Sociology of Punishment
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    17. SOC 341LEC
      Environment & Society
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    18. SOC 345LEC
      Sociology of Deviance
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    19. SOC 348LEC
      Urban Sociology
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    20. SOC 363LEC
      Families and Public Policy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    21. SOC 387LEC
      Sociology of Race & Racism
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    22. SW 350LEC
      Restorative Justice
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    One Systems and Contexts course (3 credits)

    22 items
    1. END 313LEC
      Local Government Policy and Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. GEO 330LEC
      Dynamics of International Business
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. GEO 333LEC
      International Trade
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. GGS 356LEC
      Social History of Women, 1875-Present
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. HIS 310LEC
      20th Century US Political History
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. JDS 402LEC
      Jewish Law in Development
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. PSC 301LEC
      Cases in Civil Liberties
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. PSC 302LEC
      Protecting Civil Liberties
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. PSC 304LEC
      Legislative Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. PSC 305LEC
      Judicial Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    11. PSC 315LEC
      American Political Economy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. PSC 321LEC
      Criminal Process I: The Investigation
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. PSC 322LEC
      Criminal Process II: Bail to Jail
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. PSC 332LEC
      International Organizations
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    15. PSC 339LEC
      International Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    16. PSC 350LEC
      Human Rights
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    17. PSC 362LEC
      Native American Law and Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    18. SOC 305LEC
      Organized Crime
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    19. SOC 317LEC
      Criminal Justice Systems
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    20. SOC 319LEC
      Juvenile Justice
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    21. SOC 343LEC
      Gender & Crime
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    22. SOC 384LEC
      Social Movements
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    Two Subject Focus courses* (6 credits)

    32 items
    1. ECO 201LEC
      Economic History of the United States
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    2. ECO 208LEC
      Introduction to Environmental Economics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. ECO 211LEC
      Introduction to Health Economics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    4. ENG 301LEC
      Criticism
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    5. ENG 370LEC
      Critical Race Theory
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. ENG 371LEC
      Queer Theory
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    7. GEO 103LEC
      Global Economic Geographies
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. GGS 325SEM
      Violence in a Gendered World
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. HIS 161LR
      United States History I
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    10. HIS 162LR
      US History II
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    11. HIS 216LEC
      Crime and Punishment
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. IDS 204LEC
      Indigenous Environmental Justice
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. PHI 105LEC
      Contemporary Moral Problems
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. PHI 217LEC
      Leadership Ethics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    15. PHI 234LEC
      Environmental Ethics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    16. PHI 237LEC
      Medical Ethics: Social & Ethical Values in Medicine
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    17. PHI 335LEC
      Contemporary Ethical Theory
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    18. PHI 338LEC
      Law and Morality
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    19. PHI 342LEC
      Political Philosophy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    20. PSC 101LEC
      Introduction to American Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    21. PSC 215LEC
      Law and the Political Process
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    22. PSC 225LEC
      Equality and Justice in the United States
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    23. PSC 293SEM
      Race and the Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    24. SOC 206LEC
      Social Problems
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    25. SOC 349LEC
      Classical Soc Theory
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    26. SOC 373LEC
      Law & Society
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    27. SSC 343LEC
      Violence and the Family
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    28. SW 130SEM
      Black Lives Matter: Building Racial Justice and Solidarity
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    29. SW 220LEC
      Introduction to Community Organizing and Development
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    30. SW 325LEC
      Perspectives on Child Maltreatment and Advocacy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    31. SW 345LEC
      Global Child Advocacy Issues
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    32. SW 360LEC
      Mass Incarceration and Direct Practice
      Not resolved to a course
      3

    JD Requirements

    0 items

      JD First Year Requirements (32 credits)

      9 items
      1. LAW 509LEC
        Torts
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      2. LAW 501LEC
        Civil Procedure
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      3. LAW 507LEC
        Property
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      4. LAW 515LEC
        Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      5. LAW 503LEC
        Contracts
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      6. LAW 505LEC
        Criminal Law
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      7. LAW 511LEC
        Constitutional Law 1
        Not resolved to a course
        4
      8. LAW 516LEC
        Legal Analysis, Writing and Research II
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      9. LAW 500TUT- Professional Development
        Not resolved to a course
        1

      JD Second and Third Year Requirements (58 credits)

      5 items
      1. LAW 564LEC
        Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      2. LAW Experiential Course(s)
        Not resolved to a course
        6
      3. LAW Seminar Course
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      4. LAW Research/Writing-intensive Course
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      5. LAW electives at the 500-level or above
        Not resolved to a course
        43

      Experiential Course options

      5 items
      1. LAW 523TUT
        Judicial Externship - Intensive
        Not resolved to a course
        3-5
      2. LAW 567LEC
        Lawyers as Change Agents: Pathways to the Public Good
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      3. LAW 637LEC
        Corporate Negotiations
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      4. LAW 686LEC
        Food, Drug, & Medical Device Law
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      5. LAW 817LEC
        International Arbitration
        Not resolved to a course
        3

      Seminar Course options

      3 items
      1. LAW 639SEM
        9th Amendment
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      2. LAW 695SEM
        Land Use Planning
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      3. LAW 822SEM
        Gender, Sexuality, & Law
        Not resolved to a course
        3

      Research/Writing Course options

      3 items
      1. LAW 722SEM
        Intensive Research & Writing Sports Law
        Not resolved to a course
        1-4
      2. LAW 762SEM
        Adv Topics in Law & Society Research: Foundations
        Not resolved to a course
        3
      3. LAW 956LEC
        Introduction to Appellate Advocacy
        Not resolved to a course
        3

      Notes

      0 items

        Additional Degree Requirements Include

        2 items
        1. Additional coursework to fulfill UB Curriculum requirements
          Not resolved to a course
        2. 7-8 undergraduate elective credits
          Not resolved to a course

        Academic Requirements

        2 items
        1. Minimum Law BA GPA of 2.000. This includes all courses used by the major.
          Not resolved to a course
        2. Each Law BA core course (LAW 101; LAW 201; LAW 202; and LAW 301 or LAW 302) must be completed with a minimum grade of C (2.000).
          Not resolved to a course

        Academic Review Policy

        0 items

          Program Distinction

          0 items

            Curricular Plan

            46 items
            1. UB Seminar
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            2. LAW 101LEC
              Introduction to the American Legal System
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            3. LAW 201LEC
              Common Law
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            4. Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            5. ENG 105LEC
              Writing and Rhetoric
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            6. LAW 202LEC
              Public Law
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            7. Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            8. Pathway
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            9. Critical Reasoning Methods
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            10. ENG 105LEC
              Writing and Rhetoric
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            11. LAW 301LEC
              Legal Reasoning
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            12. Scientific Literacy 1
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            13. Scientific Literacy Lab
              Not resolved to a course
              1
            14. Math and Quantitative Reasoning
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            15. Pathway
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            16. Pathway
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            17. Intermediate Law Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            18. Scientific Literacy 2
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            19. Pathway
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            20. Problems & Issues Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            21. Systems and Contexts Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            22. Intermediate Law Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            23. Pathway
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            24. Communication Literacy 2
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            25. Subject Focus Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            26. Intermediate Law Course 3
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            27. Advanced Law Seminar
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            28. UBC 399MNT
              UB Curriculum Capstone
              Not resolved to a course
              1
            29. Subject Focus Course
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            30. Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              2
            31. Advanced Law Seminar
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            32. LAW 515LEC
              Legal Analys, Writing & Res I
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            33. LAW 501LEC
              Civil Procedure
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            34. LAW 509LEC
              Torts
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            35. LAW 507LEC
              Property
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            36. LAW 500TUT- Professional Identity
              Not resolved to a course
              0
            37. LAW 505LEC
              Criminal Law
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            38. LAW 503LEC
              Contracts
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            39. LAW 511LEC
              Constitutional Law 1
              Not resolved to a course
              4
            40. LAW 516LEC
              Legal Analysis, Writing & Res II
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            41. LAW 500TUT
              Professional Development
              Not resolved to a course
              1
            42. LAW 564LEC
              Legal Ethics and Pro Respon
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            43. LAW Experiential Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              6
            44. LAW Seminar Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            45. LAW Research Writing Elective
              Not resolved to a course
              3
            46. LAW 500+ Electives
              Not resolved to a course
              43
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