2022-2023 Registration Guide

AREAS OF FOCUS

Diversity and Social Justice The advancement of diversity and social justice is a cause that many attorneys may address in their careers. Suffolk University Law School’s commitment to these important objectives reflects itself in the wide range of courses that address issues of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. While many courses at the Law School reflect these objectives, the courses gathered here are notable in that they are addressed in a particular way to this cause and will be of interest to students who wish to focus their careers on the advancement of diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Recommended Courses

Advanced Immigration Law

Human Rights Survey

Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law

Immigration Law

Children and Disability Law

Islamic Law

Civil Disobedience

Justice and Morality in Film

Constitutional Justice in School

Mass Incarceration

Education, Equality and the Law

Massachusetts Housing Law

Employment Discrimination Law

Mental Health and Disability Law (Galway)

Federal Indian Law

Mental Health Law

Housing Discrimination Law

Race, Gender and Law

Human Rights Project

Beyond the curriculum students also have the opportunity to explore diversity and social justice in one of Suffolk Law’s in-house law clinics.

Environmental and Energy Law Environmental law has evolved over the past half century from a specialty area of law to a primary element of legal practice. It has gone "mainstream" and now affects every aspect of law from administrative regulation to real estate to primary national and international policy on global issues. Environmental law also is related to Energy law, which is its own significant and distinct practice area. Electric power supply is the last regulated industry in the U.S., with state and federal regulatory agencies engaged in substantial regulation of price, choice of energy technologies, and terms of service. Energy law involves a combination of administrative regulatory practice, environmental, tax and corporate law practice. With fundamental deregulation of electric power in 18 states, and “smart grid” investment in

29 | P a g e