COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Students are required to select from a list of courses (see course descriptions) to satisfy 18 of their 24 credit hours (15 of 24 credit hours if they have been approved for a thesis). In addition, students may select 6 (3 if approved for a thesis) additional hours from the list below, from other courses in the law school, and from approved courses on main campus—e.g., upper-level and graduate course in business, geosciences, petroleum engineering, petroleum economics, international studies, and Indian studies.

In approving an individual’s course of study, the LL.M. Director will endeavor to ensure that every LL.M. student takes at least three of the courses listed as (Core) courses; however, students would not be permitted to take courses for which they have already received credit when earning their initial law degrees.

International LL.M. students may be permitted to take contracts, property, torts, or constitutional law as an elective on a case-by-case basis with permission of the LL.M. Director and affected faculty member if space is available.

While there is only one LL.M. degree, LL.M. students are allowed to concentrate their studies in one or two of the three subject areas or to pursue a broad-based study of all three areas in energy, natural resources and indigenous people. This concentration will be reflected on their transcript through their choice of classes.