Cornell Law School’s curriculum offers a solid foundation in public interest law. Our broad curriculum includes innovative and practice-oriented courses, clinics and externship opportunities. Students completing the necessary requirements receive a certification in public law upon graduation. Courses offered in recent years include:
| Advanced Civil Procedure: Issues in International Human Rights Litigation |
| Bioterrorism and Public Health Law |
| Comparative Constitutional Law |
| Constitutional Law II: The First Amendment |
| Corporate and White Collar Crime |
| Corruption Control |
| Criminal Procedure |
| Education Law |
| Employment Discrimination and the Law |
| Environmental Law |
| Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language, and Law |
| European Union Law |
| Federal Courts |
| Federal Indian Law |
| Feminist Jurisprudence |
| First Amendment Theory |
| Free Speech and Minority Rights |
| Government and Religion |
| Grand Jury Investigations |
| Humanitarian Law |
| Immigration and Refugee Law |
| International Criminal Law |
| International Environmental Law |
| International Human Rights |
| Juvenile Advocacy |
| Labor Law |
| Labor and Social Policy |
| Land Use Planning |
| Law and Higher Education |
| Law and Mental Health |
| Law and Social Change: International Experience |
| Law and Violence Against Women |
| Legal Aspects of Foreign Investment in Developing Countries |
| Organized Crime Control |
| Public International Law |
| Securities Regulations |
| Separation of Powers |
| Sex Discrimination and the Law |
| Social Justice Lawyering |
| Social Security Law |
| State and Local Taxation |
| Street Law |
| Terrorism and Law |
| Topics in Criminal Law |
| WTO and International Trade Law |
