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Elective Courses


Upper-level students may choose to take several elective courses during their second and third years of law school.  Several of these courses may be taken to satisfy requirements of the areas of concentration.   Students should consult with Associate Dean Leah Jackson and the student catalog when determining which elective courses they should take.

The following is a listing of elective courses offered at Baylor Law School.  The student catalog contains descriptions of these courses.  This list contains the name of the course.

Course
Administrative of Estates
Administration of Estates Capstone
Advanced Criminal Procedure
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Studies in Health Law Externship
Advanced Trial Advocacy Skills
Advanced Trial Preparation
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Antitrust Law
Appellate Procedure
Arbitration
Attorney General, Child Support Division, Externship

Bankruptcy
Business and State Issues in Environmental Law
Business Litigation
Business Organizations II
Business Planning and Drafting
Business Transactions Capstone

Civil Liberties
Client Counseling
Clinical Experience in Criminal Law
Commercial Law: Negotiable Instruments
Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
Complex Litigation
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Protection
Copyright Law
Corporate Taxation
Creditors' Remedies
Criminal Practice and Procedure

Employment Discrimination
Employment Relations
Environmental Agency Externships
Environmental Law
Equal Protection & Voting Rights, Reapportionment & Redistricting
Estate Planning

Family Business Planning
Family Law
Family Law Practice Skills
Family Rights Litigation
Federal Administrative Law
Federal Courts
Franchising

Health Care Law
Health Care Litigation

Immigration Law
Independent Studies in Law
Individual Taxation
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property II: Practice Skills
International Business Transactions
International Trade Law

Judicial Externship
Jurisprudence
Juvenile Justice

Labor Law
Law, Public Policy and Scripture
Law Review
Legal Services Externship
Local Government, Constitutional and Federal Liabilities

Municipal Government

Natural Resources Protection and Water Law
Nonprofit Organizations

Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas Drafting Problems
Oral Advocacy

Partnership Taxation
Patent Law and Drafting
Personal Injury Trial Law
Post Conviction Procedure: Sentencing
Post Conviction Procedure: Appeals and Habeas Corpus
Products Liability

Real Estate Finance
Retirement Law

Securities Regulation
Separation of Church and State
Sports Law
Supreme Court Seminar

Texas Administrative Law
Texas Land Practice
Texas Life Insurance Company Externship
Texas Railroad Commission Externship
(Transfers) H. Hart Nance Course in Wealth Transfers
Trusts and Estates Capstone

White Collar Crime
Primary Instructor(s)
Professor Tom Featherston
Professor Tom Featherston
Professor Brian Serr
Professor Matt Cordon
Assistant Professor Bridget Fuselier
Associate Professor Jeremy Counseller
Assistant Professor Jim Wren
Professor Mike Rogers
Professor David Swenson
Adjunct Professor C. Alfred MacKenzie
Adjunct Professor Noley Bice
Professor Mike Rogers


Adjunct Professor Walt Shelton
Assistant Professor Jim Wren
Professor Elizabeth Miller
Professor Elizabeth Miller
Professor Elizabeth Miller

Professor David Guinn
Adjunct Professor Rex Davis
Professor Brian Serr & Professor Mark Osler
Professor David Swenson
Professor Larry Bates
Assistant Professor Jim Underwood
Associate Professor Jeremy Counseller

Associate Dean Leah Jackson
Adjunct Professor Melinda L. Hedrick
Adjunct Professor Shad Robinson
Professor Mark Osler

Professor Patricia Wilson
Professor Patricia Wilson
Professor Ron Beal
Adjunct Professor Walt Shelton
Professor David Guinn
Professor Thomas Featherston

Professor Elizabeth Miller
Professor Patricia Wilson
Adjunct Professor Ben Selman
Adjunct Professors Tina Amberboy & Margaret Voelter
Professor Ron Beal
Associate Professor Rory Ryan
Adjunct Professor Roger Schmidt

Adjunct Professor Patrick Souter
Adjunct Professor Colin O'Neill & Adjunct Professor David Dumas

Adjunct Professor Michelle Rodriguez

Associate Dean Leah Jackson
Associate Professor Jeremy Counseller
Professor David Swenson
Adjunct Professor David Henry
Adjunct Professor James Chester
Adjunct Professor James Chester


Professor Michael Morrison
Adjunct Professor Vikram Deivanayagam

Professor Patricia Wilson
Dean Bradley Toben
Professor Larry Bates & Associate Professor Rory Ryan
Professor David Swenson
Professor David Guinn

Adjunct Professor Charles Olson

Adjunct Professor Walt Shelton
Adjunct Professor Darren Moore

Adjunct Professor William Farrar
Adjunct Professor William Farrar
Professor Mark Osler

Associate Dean Leah Jackson
Adjunct Professor David Henry
Adjunct Professor Dale Williams
Professor Mark Osler
Adjunct Professor Greg White
Adjunct Professor Derek Gilliland

Adjunct Professor David Dickson
Adjunct Professor Rodney Chamness

Professor Mike Rogers
Professor David Guinn
Professor David Swenson
Professor Brian Serr & Adjunct Professor Greg White

Professor Ron Beal

Professor Elizabeth Miller
Professor Ron Beal
Professor Tom Featherston
Professor Tom Featherston

Adjunct Professor Lauren Redman


To remain in good standing, a student must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher and the student must graduate within seven years after matriculation. A student withdrawn for more than one year may not return without approval of the Faculty Academic Standards Committee. In no event will a student withdrawn for more than two years be allowed to continue legal studies. Such a student must seek readmission as an entering student.

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