LAW at University of Illinois Chicago

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 LAW coursework.

• JD 415Contracts II.opens 85 courses (85 directly)
• LAW 412Lawyering Skills II: Advocacyopens 85 courses (44.5 directly)
• LAW 413Lawyering Skills II: Advocacy: Intellectual Propertyopens 81 courses (40.5 directly)
• LAW 422Lawyering Skills III: Appellate Advocacyopens 11 courses (11 directly)
• JD 520JITPL: Commentopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• LAW 583RIPL: Commentopens 2 courses (2 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 LAW 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 99 LAW and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more LAW 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 LAW. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at LAW 430

  1. JD 405Contracts I.
  2. JD 415Contracts II.
  3. LAW 422Lawyering Skills III: Appellate Advocacy
  4. LAW 430Lawyering Skills IV: Business Planning and Drafting

• 4 courses deep, ending at LAW 488

  1. JD 405Contracts I.
  2. JD 415Contracts II.
  3. JD 400U.S. Trademark Law

• 4 courses deep, ending at LAW 551

  1. JD 405Contracts I.
  2. JD 415Contracts II.
  3. LAW 535Estates and Trusts

• 4 courses deep, ending at LAW 581

  1. JD 405Contracts I.
  2. JD 415Contracts II.
  3. JD 520JITPL: Comment

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for LAW yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LAW yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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