The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
http://www.utexas.edu/law/
Curriculum
The Law School maintains one of the richest academic programs of any law school in the country. Such a wide array of courses cannot be matched at schools with smaller faculties or at schools with less intellectual and philosophical diversity. Additionally, students can take advantage of the diverse opportunities for study abroad through exchanges or internships.
Full-time law professors teach our first-year program, with few exceptions. Required first-year classes include Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Property, Contracts, Torts, Constitutional Law I, and Legal Research and Writing. The first-year class is divided into small sections, usually taught by a member of the regular faculty.
Second- and third-year students fill their schedule with electives and four required courses: Professional Responsibility, Constitutional Law II, a professional skills course, and a writing seminar. UT Law offers a large number of elective courses and seminars of varying class sizes, with some classes having as few as seven students. Award-winning clinical programs in National Security, Immigration, Children's Rights, Mental Health, Criminal Law, Supreme Court, Housing, and Trial Advocacy allow students to work on cases, with supervision, and have some of the most rewarding experiences at Law School.
Students can also take advantage of the non-law faculty at The University of Texas-Austin, one of the nation's top 15 research universities. Our faculty is distinguished nationally and internationally and includes winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Medal of Science and the Wolf Prize.