LAW at University of Iowa

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. LAW 8032Legal Analysis Writing and Research I
  2. LAW 8033Legal Analysis Writing and Research II
• 1. LAW 8331Business Associations
  2. LAW 8307Corporate Finance
• 1. LAW 8460Evidence
  2. LAW 9060Trial Advocacy

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.

• LAW 8033Legal Analysis Writing and Research IIopens 7 courses (4 directly)
• LAW 9010Appellate Advocacy Iopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• LAW 8307Corporate Financeopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• LAW 8726Mergers and Acquisitionsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LAW 9060Trial Advocacyopens 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 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 61 LAW and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 177 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 9021

  1. LAW 8032Legal Analysis Writing and Research I
  2. LAW 8033Legal Analysis Writing and Research II
  3. LAW 9010Appellate Advocacy I
  4. LAW 9021Van Oosterhout Baskerville Moot Court Competition

• 3 courses deep, ending at LAW 9062

  1. LAW 8460Evidence
  2. LAW 9060Trial Advocacy
  3. LAW 9062Trial Advocacy Board

• 3 courses deep, ending at LAW 9558

  1. LAW 8331Business Associations
  2. LAW 8307Corporate Finance
  3. LAW 9558Corporate Boards Seminar

• 2 courses deep, ending at LAW 8216

  1. LAW 8006Civil Procedure
  2. LAW 8216Civil Procedure in Pre-Trial Theory and Practice arr

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 Iowa campus feed.