LAWS at Boston College

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LAWS coursework.

• LAWS 8550Trial Practiceopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LAWS 8339Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinicopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate LAWS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 17 LAWS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 94 more LAWS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in LAWS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at LAWS 4771

  1. LAWS 7750Corporations
  2. LAWS 8339Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic
  3. LAWS 4771Advanced Entrepreneurship & Innovation Practice

• 3 courses deep, ending at LAWS 8313

  1. LAWS 9996Evidence
  2. LAWS 8550Trial Practice
  3. LAWS 8313Immigration Law Clinic

• 2 courses deep, ending at LAWS 4308

  1. LAWS 8308Compassionate Release & Parole Clinic
  2. LAWS 4308Advanced Parole and Medical Release Practice

• 2 courses deep, ending at LAWS 4485

  1. LAWS 2150Law Practice 1
  2. LAWS 4485Advanced Legal Writing

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on LAWS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Agarwal, Akshat
• Alexander, Lisa
• Ang, Kimberly
• Anzalone, Filippa M
• Barnico, Thomas A
• Barrozo, Paulo D
• Basile, Marco P
• Beckman, Sharon L, Esq.
• Beckman, Sharon L, ESQ.
• Berry, Jessica
• Bilder, Mary
• Bloom, Robert M
• Blum, Joan
• Bratt, Cheryl
• Brown, Christopher L
• Brown, George D
• Bruce, Amy
• Buttaro, Andrew M
• Campos, Sergio
• Carey, Thomas, Jr.
• Caron, Gerard A
• Carrillo, Raul
• Cherry, Sarah
• Chirba, Mary Ann
• Claire P
• Cohen, Jeffrey M
• Coldebella, Gus
• Cole, Felipe
• Connor, Jennifer L
• Cox, Caroline
• Crane, Daniel C
• Crocker, Thomas
• Cunha, Glenn A
• Daly, Rosemary
• Davis, Laurel E
• DiGiacomo, Henry J
• Donohue Prono
• Dowden, James P, Esq.
• Duvall, Misti
• Erchull, Chris
• + 90 more

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LAWS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

LAWS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Boston College campus feed.