Course Offerings

Course Offerings

NKU Chase offers its students a rich selection of courses designed to allow them to pursue various areas of interest. While all students must take some required courses, as well as some 'core' courses, students have a large selection of electives from which to choose. Whether students are interested in corporate law, employment law, criminal law, intellectual property law, or any other area of specialization, Chase's selection of electives should provide all students with the opportunity to pursue their specific interests. However, if a student wishes not to specialize while in law school, he or she will find more than enough courses covering a wide range of topics.

Required Courses:


Basic Legal Skills (Research)
Basic Legal Skills (Writing)
Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Constitutional Law I
Constitutional Law II
Contracts I
Contracts II
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Legal Analysis and Problem Solving
Professional Responsibility
Property I
Property II
Torts I
Torts II

Core Courses:


Administrative Law
Agency, Partnership, and Limited Liability Companies
Corporations
Family Law
Remedies
Tax: Basic Income Tax Concepts
UCC: Payment Systems
UCC: Sales and Secured Transactions
Wills and Trusts

Elective Courses:


Accounting for Lawyers
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
Advanced Criminal Procedure
Advanced Legal Analysis Strategies
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Online Legal Research
Arbitration Competition
Arbitration Law and Practice
Art Law
Bankruptcy
Broadcast/Telecommunications/Internet Law
Business Basics for Lawyers
Chase Externship Program
Children's Law Clinic
Clinical Externship Program
Clinical Externship Program/Local Government Law Center
Clinical Internship Program/Local Government Law Center
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Law Seminar
Constitutional Litigation Clinic
Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
Contract Drafting
Corporate and White Collar Crime Law
Crimes Against Justice
Cultural Property Law
Death Penalty: Policy and Procedure
Deposition Strategies
Domestic Violence Law Prosecution and Trial
Domestic Violence Law Seminar
Elder Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Entertainment Law
Ethics for Transactional Lawyers
European Union Law
Facts, Storytelling & Persuasion
Federal Courts
Federal Practice and Procedure

Federal Trial Practice Seminar
Immigration Law and Policy
Indigent Defense Clinic
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Survey Course
Inter-School Competition (Appellate Advocacy/Moot Court)
International Law
Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating
Jurisprudence
Juvenile Law
Kentucky Innocence Project
Kentucky Practice and Procedure
KY Criminal Justice Externship
Labor Relations
Law and Social Problems Seminar
Law of Healthcare
Law Review
Legal Drafting
Lincoln's Constitution
Mediation
Modern Real Estate Transactions
National Trial Advocacy Competition
Patent Law
Patent Prosecution
Pretrial Litigation
School Law
Securities Regulation
Sports Law
State and Local Government Law
State Constitutional Law
Supervised Independent Study
Tax-Advanced Income Tax Concepts
Tax-Business Organizations and Business Planning
Tax-Estate Planning
Tax-IRS Legal Counsel Externship
Tax-Tax Moot Court Inter-School Competition
Transactional Law Externship
Trial Advocacy
Voir Dire Strategies