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Law BA

University at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY

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Program
Award
BA
Credential class
ceterms:BachelorDegree
CIP
45.1301
Credits (computed from items)
503-508
Catalog edition
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
196088
CourseShelf checklist
CK_196088_0103e00a
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

Major Requirements

0 items

    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 313LEC
      Sports Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. LAW 314LEC
      Federal Income Tax Law and Policy
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. LAW 315LEC
      Specialized Criminal Prosecutions
      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 496TUT
      Law Internship
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. LAW 499TUT
      Independent Study
      Not resolved to a course
      1-3

    One Critical Reasoning Methods course (3-4 credits)

    14 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. PSC 200LEC
      Empirical Political Science
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    12. SOC 293LEC
      Social Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    13. SSC 213LEC
      Social Research Methods
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    14. 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)

    33 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. PHI 380LEC
      Nineteenth Century Enlightenment from Kant to Nietzsche
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    21. PSC 101LEC
      Introduction to American Politics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    22. PSC 215LEC
      Law and the Political Process
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    23. PSC 225LEC
      Equality and Justice in the United States
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    24. PSC 293SEM
      Race and the Law
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    25. SOC 206LEC
      Social Problems
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    26. SOC 349LEC
      Classical Soc Theory
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    27. SOC 373LEC
      Law & Society
      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. SSC 343LEC
      Violence and the Family
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    32. SW 345LEC
      Global Child Advocacy Issues
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    33. SW 360LEC
      Mass Incarceration and Direct Practice
      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. Elective courses as needed to complete the 120 credit hour total
        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

          41 items
          1. LAW 101LEC
            Introduction to the American Legal System
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          2. Liberal Arts Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          3. UB Seminar
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          4. Critical Reasoning Methods
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          5. ENG 105LEC
            Writing and Rhetoric
            Not resolved to a course
            4
          6. LAW 201LEC
            Common Law
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          7. Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          8. Math & Quantitative Reasoning
            Not resolved to a course
            4
          9. ENG 105LEC
            Writing and Rhetoric
            Not resolved to a course
            4
          10. LAW 301LEC
            Legal Reasoning
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          11. LAW 302LEC
            Legal Research Methods
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          12. Math & Quantitative Reasoning
            Not resolved to a course
            4
          13. Pathway
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          14. Pathway
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          15. Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          16. Intermediate Law Course
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          17. Scientific Literacy and Inquiry 2
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          18. Pathway
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          19. Problems & Issues (select from 300/400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          20. Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            2
          21. Systems and Contexts (select from 300/400 level)
            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. Pathway
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          26. UBC 399MNT
            UB Curriculum Capstone
            Not resolved to a course
            1
          27. Liberal Arts Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          28. Liberal Arts Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          29. Elective
            Not resolved to a course
            2
          30. Intermediate Law Course
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          31. Advanced Law Seminar
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          32. Advanced Law Seminar
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          33. Subject Focus Elective from list F
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          34. Liberal Arts Elective (300/400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          35. Liberal Arts Elective (300/400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          36. Liberal Arts Elective (300/400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          37. Subject Focus Elective from list F
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          38. Liberal Arts Elective (300-400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          39. Liberal Arts Elective (300-400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          40. Liberal Arts Elective (300-400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            3
          41. Liberal Arts Elective (300-400 level)
            Not resolved to a course
            1
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