Law, Government and Regulation
A specialization in Law, Government and Regulation can help prepare students for a wide range of professional opportunities, from serving as a government attorney in an administrative agency to counseling business clients in regulated industries. Administrative and regulatory legal doctrines are vitally important to lawyers with a broad range of substantive interests, including banking, energy, environmental, securities, immigration and labor law. Relevant courses in these and other substantive specialties are listed below.
Administrative and regulatory bodies play a major role in government at all levels: local, state, federal and international. From the smallest local school boards to the largest federal and international agencies, much of 21st-century law is made by administrative rule-makers and administrative adjudicators. Their powers—and the ways that they interact with legislative and judicial bodies and with regulated entities—are central to understanding modern law.
IIT Chicago-Kent offers a wealth of doctrinal courses and practical experiences for students planning a career in Law, Government and Regulation. If the Law, Government and Regulation specialization interests you, plan to take the general course Administrative Law as soon as possible. This course will introduce you to a number of key doctrines, especially involving federal administrative law. The course covers constitutional topics such as separation of powers, appointment and removal of government officers, and procedural due process; procedural issues related to administrative rule-making and adjudication; and the role of courts in reviewing administrative decision making.
To supplement this basic introduction to administrative doctrine, interested students should take one or more courses in a substantive area of the law in which they hope to practice. Such courses not only cover substantive legal principles but also explore the role of administrative and regulatory bodies in developing and applying such principles.
In addition, students should explore the opportunities offered by Chicago-Kent to gain practical experience in dealing with administrative/regulatory procedures. A number of clinics and other skills courses help students learn the practical ways in which individual citizens, corporations, unions, trade associations and nonprofit entities interact with the administrative state.
The following courses, seminars and skills courses are all excellent choices to prepare you for a career in administrative/regulatory law.
Courses
- Banking Law
- Compliance in Financial Institutions
- Consumer Health Benefits
- Disability Law
- Employee Benefits Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Relationships
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law and Policy 1
- Environmental Law and Policy 2
- Food and Drug Law
- Health Care Law
- Health Care Law: A Strategic Overview
- Immigration Law and Policy
- International and Comparative Labor and Employment Law
- International Capital Markets
- International Organizations
- International Trade
- Labor Law
- Land Use
- Law and Food
- Mental Health Law
- Public Interest Law and Policy
- Real Estate Fundamentals and Syndications
- School Law
- Securities Regulation
- Sexual Orientation and the Law
- Tax Procedure
- Transportation Law
Seminars and Skills Courses
- ADR in the Workplace
- Advanced Legislative Advocacy
- Advising Clients on Tax Matters
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Chicago Legal Clinic Practicum
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Environmental Law Externship
- Family- and Employment-Based Immigration Practice
- Harassment in Employment Law
- In-House Clinical Programs (for example, Health and Disability Law Clinic, Immigration Law Clinic)
- International Environmental Law
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Investment Funds
- Labor and Employment Considerations Impacting the Start-Up and Evolution of a Privately Owned Company
- Labor/Employment Law Externship
- Law of Globalization
- Making Chicago: Law, Politics and Urban Planning in the Second City
- Mediation
- Negotiations
- Public Sector Employees
- Refugee and Asylum Law Externship
- Water Resources Law
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