This writing and research course teaches the skills needed to draft transactional documents in the context of labor and employment legal practice.
Drafting: Legislation
This course teaches students the principles involved in drafting regulations and legislation, and incorporating policy-making into drafting.
Drafting: Litigation
This course provides students with a basic understanding of drafting various types of litigation documents, such as motions, discovery requests, and trial memos.
Editing Legal Writing
This course teaches the necessary skills to edit legal writing and create a final product that is clear, precise, and effective.
Education Law and Policy
This course focuses on the intersection of public schools, K-12 educational policy, and the law, exploring the crucial role education plays in sustaining a democratic society.
Education Law and Practice
Students in this project-based learning course will provide legal services to the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice, a law-focused charter high school founded by the New York Law School Justice Action Center.
Education Law Clinic
In the Education Law Clinic, students are trained to practice education law in New York City at various firms and nonprofit agencies, under the supervision of civil rights and education law attorneys who are NYLS adjunct faculty.
Elections Redistricting and Voting Rights
This course will explore a broad swath of voting rights law. In coverage of reapportionment, redistricting, the census, racial vote dilution, and partisan gerrymandering, students will build on concepts of federal jurisprudence of reapportionment and redistricting, including the core constitutional doctrines, the Voting Rights Act, census issues, and the landmark cases that govern the redistricting process.
Employee Benefits Law
This course explores the legal milieu and public policy aspects of non-cash compensation arrangements for employees through statutory analysis in light of rapidly developing case and administrative law.
Employee Relations and Anti-Discrimination Law
This upper-level, substantive course surveys the laws and concepts governing the relationships of individual employees and their employers, emphasizing private-sector employment.