佛罗里达国际大学

FIU Law’s curriculum provides students with a foundation in the basics of legal education that will help prepare them for the challenges of the legal profession.

Foundation Curriculum

The Foundation Curriculum provides students with the conceptual and substantive knowledge and skills essential to the practice of law.

Day Division Students

During the first year of law school, all day division, full-time students will complete 31 credit hours of the Foundation Curriculum. Courses include:

• Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Introduction to International and Comparative Law, Legal Skills and Values I, Legal Skills and Values II, Property, Torts

Evening Division Students

Part-time, evening students will complete the 31 credit hours during the fall and spring semester of the first year, and the fall semester of the second. FIU Law will offer summer courses outside the Foundation Curriculum for students who wish to earn credits in the summer after their first year.

• Part-time, evening students will complete the 31 credit hours during the fall and spring semester of the first year, and the fall semester of the second.
• FIU Law will offer summer courses outside the Foundation Curriculum for students who wish to earn credits in the summer after their first year.

Upper-Level Curriculum

After completing the Foundation Curriculum, students must also complete 59 credit hours of upper-level courses. Most of these courses are electives, but students must satisfy several upper-level requirements. These are the requirements that must be met:

• Professional Responsibility: Students must pass this course with a C or better.
• Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Students must take two courses that satisfy the litigation and alternative dispute resolution requirement.
• International and Comparative Law: Students must take at least one upper-level course that satisfies the international and comparative law requirement.
• Legal Skills and Values III
• Graduate Seminar: Students must take a seminar involving a multi-draft writing project.
• Community Service: Students must also perform thirty (30) hours of community service.

Learning Outcomes

Upon conferral of a Juris Doctorate degree, FIU Law students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law.
• Employ legal analysis and reasoning, undertake research, and demonstrate problem-solving skills.
• Communicate effectively within the legal context in both written and oral form.
• Exercise proper professional and ethical responsibilities toward clients and the legal system.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills for competent and ethical participation within the domestic and the global legal contexts.
• Illustrate the value of community and public service.
• Demonstrate cultural literacy as a commitment to cultural diversity within the legal context.