Areas of Study
JD Program Areas of Study
Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School offers a wide variety of courses and educational experiences to its students. The material accessible from this page is designed to help students select courses that will be best suited to their career goals.
Students can use the topical links below to identify the courses and special programs (including concurrent degrees) that are related to a particular area of the law or law practice.
Business/Corporations/Labor Law
Suggested Courses
- Advanced Real Estate Transactions
- Agency & Partnership
- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Business Planning
- Consumer Protection
- Corporate Taxation
- Corporations
- Current Developments in American Law: Accounting for Lawyers
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Federal Business Taxation
- Federal Income Tax
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International Business Transactions
- Introduction to Commercial Law
- Introduction to Transactional Skills
- Labor Law
- Partnership Taxation
- Securities Regulation
- Senior Writing Seminar: Not-For-Profit Corporations
Criminal Law
Suggested Courses
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure: Pre-Trial
- Criminal Procedure: Post Investigations
- Evidence
- International Criminal Law
- Pre-Trial Advocacy
- Senior Writing Seminar: Advanced Criminal Procedure Topics
- Senior Writing Seminar: International White Collar Crime
- Sentencing
- Trial Advocacy
- White Collar Crime
Family Law and Estate Planning
Suggested Courses
- Advanced Real Estate Transactions
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Basic Estate Planning
- Children and the Law
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Family Law
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Property I and II
- Trusts and Estates
Health Law
Suggested Courses
- Administrative Law
- Antitrust
- Bioethics and the Law
- Corporations
- Disability Law
- Health Care Legislation
- Health Policy Law
- Insurance Law
- Medical Malpractice Law
- Mental Health Law
- Public Health Law
- Regulation of Health Care Professionals
- Senior Seminar: Not-for-Profit Corporations
- Torts
Intellectual Property Law
Suggested Courses
- Intellectual Property
- Copyright Law
- Law & the Arts
- Patent Law
- Trademarks and Unfair Competition
- Trade Secret Law
- International Intellectual Property & Economic Development
- Intellectual Property and Commercialization
International Law
Suggested Courses
- Current Developments in International Law
- Immigration Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Criminal Law
- International Law
- Legal Globalization and Comparative Law
- Senior Writing Seminar: Comparative Law
- Senior Writing Seminar: International Human Rights
Litigation and Trial Skills
Suggested Courses
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Appellate Advocacy
- Advanced Torts
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Civil Procedure I & II
- Conflict of Laws
- Client Interviewing and Counseling
- Criminal Procedure: Pre-Trial
- Criminal Procedure: Post Investigations
- Evidence
- Federal Courts
- Lawyering Skills I & II
- Mediation Skills
- Mock Trial
- Negotiation
- Pre-Trial Advocacy
- Remedies
- Senior Writing Seminar: Electronic Discovery
- Senior Writing Seminar: Persuasion and the Adversary Jury Trial
- Torts
- Trial Advocacy
Public Interest Law
Suggested Courses
- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Civil Rights
- Client Interviewing and Counseling
- Consumer Protection
- Employment Discrimination
- Family Law
- First Amendment Rights
- Privacy Law
- Senior Writing Seminar: Race and the Law
- Civil Practice Clinic
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Public Interest Externship
- Judicial Externship