Subject Areas of the Upper Level Curriculum and Subject Area Advisors
In planning course selection students may want to take into account the possibility of concentrating in certain areas of the curriculum. The following is a list of areas of the curriculum with a suggested sequence of courses in each area. Not all courses are offered each year. Faculty advisers are listed for each area for students who would like further information:
Advisors: Professor Martin McWilliams, Office 340, e-mail: mcwillmc@law.sc.edu
Professor Ben Means, Office 314, e-mail: meansb@law.sc.edu
- Business Associations
- Business Torts
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Tax
- Income Tax
- International Business Transactions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Partnership & LLC Taxation
- Regulation of the Financial Sector and Money
- Securities Regulation
- Small Business Capstone Course
- Social Impact of Business Activity
Other recommended courses:
- Drafting Business Agreements
- Intellectual Property
- International Intellectual Property
- International Trade Law
- Nonprofit Organizations Clinic
- Trademark Law
Note: There are a number of other courses that would be useful to students who wish to practice Business Law, such as Administrative Law. In addition, an attorney who practices business law would profit from exposure to other business-related fields, such as commercial law, labor law, and intellectual property law.
Advisor: Professor Derek Black, Office 230, email: blackdw@email.sc.edu
Professor Josie Brown, Office 329, email: brownjf@law.sc.edu
- Advanced Family Law
- Caretaking, the Family and the Law
- Children and the Courts
- Children’s Law Externship
- Constitutional Issues in Public Education
- Family Law
- Immigration and Family Law Skills Workshop
- Juvenile Justice
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Parents, Children & the Law
- Poverty Law & Policy
- Race, Class and Education
- Special Education Law
- Education Law & Policy
Advisor: Professor Philip Lacy, Office 326, e-mail: lacypt@law.sc.edu
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial Law
- Consumer Law
- Secured Transactions
Advisor: Professor Josie Brown, Office 329, e-mail: brownjf@law.sc.edu
- Constitutional Issues in Public Education
- Employment Discrimination
- Free Speech & Democracy Theory Seminar
- The Constitution & National Security
- Women and the Law
Advisor: Professor Colin Miller, Office 262, e-mail: mille933@law.sc.edu
- Criminal Adjudication
- Criminal Law Externship
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Trial Practice
- Criminal Practice Clinic
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Police Law & Policy
- Regulation of Vice
- South Carolina Law and Criminal Procedure
- Trial Advocacy
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Environmental Law Seminar
- Climate Change Seminar
- Coastal Law
- Coastal Law Field Lab
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Environmental Law of Natural Resources
- Environmental Law and Policy
- International Environmental Law
- Land Use Planning
- Water Law
- Advanced Family Law
- Caretaking, the Family, and the Law
- Carolina Health Advocacy Medicolegal Partnership Clinic
- Children & The Courts
- Children’s Law Externship
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Education Rights Clinic
- Elder Law
- Family Law
- Immigration and Family Law Skills Workshop
- Juvenile Justice
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Parents, Children and the Law
Other recommended courses
- Income Tax
- Administrative Law
- Bioethics Seminar
- Food & Drug Law
- Food Law and Policy
- Health Law: Finance and Organization
- Health Law & Policy
- Insurance
- Intersection of Health Law and Technology
- Public Health Law
- Topics in Insurance
- Copyright Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
Advisor: Professor Aparna Polavarapu, Office 238, e-mail: aparnap@law.sc.edu
- Comparative Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Human Rights Skills Course
- International Environmental Law
- International Trade Law
- Rule of Law Seminar
- Russian Law and Legal System
- Transnational Law
Advisor: Professor Joe Seiner; Office 308, e-mail seiner@law.sc.edu
- ADR in Employment Workshop
- Employment Discrimination
- Individual Employment Law
- Principles of Labor Law
- South Carolina Workers Compensation
Advisor: Professor Madilyn Wasilczuk, Office 355, e-mail: mwasilczuk@sc.edu
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Civil Procedure
- Civil Litigation Capstone
- Complex Civil Litigation
- Conflict of Laws
- Discovery Drafting
- Evidence
- Federal Courts
- Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation
- Problems in Professional Responsibility
- Topics in Insurance Law
One of the following pretrial courses:
- Electronic Discovery
One of the following trial practice courses:
- Criminal Trial Practice
- Trial Advocacy
One of the following live-client clinics:
- Criminal Practice Clinic
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Juvenile Justice Clinic
Other recommended courses:
- Appellate Advocacy
- ADR In Employment Workshop
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
Advisor: Professor Alan Medlin, Office 338, e-mail: medlinsa@law.sc.edu
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Fiduciary Administration
- Income Tax
- Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Advisor: Professor Alan Medlin, Office 338, e-mail: medlinsa@law.sc.edu
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Estate Planning
- Land Use Planning
- Real Estate Transactions I
- Real Estate Transactions II
- Real Estate Transaction Capstone
Advisor: Professor Tessa Davis, Office 235, email: davistes@law.sc.edu
Professor Clint Wallace, office 233, email: wallace1@mailbox.sc.edu
- Income Tax
- Corporate Tax
- Partnership & LLC Taxation
- State and Local Tax
- Tax Policy Seminar
- Tax Practicum
- Taxation of Property Transactions
Other recommended course:
- Non-Profit Organizations
Advisor: Professor Bryant Walker Smith, office 323, email: bryantws@law.sc.edu
- Bioethics Seminar
- Climate Change Seminar
- Copyright Law
- Electronic Discovery
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Intellectual Property
- International Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Products Liability
- Technology and the Practice of Law
- Technology Law: Law of the Newly Possible
- The Future of the Legal Profession
- Trademark
- Transportation Law