curriculum designed for success
WMU-Cooley's curriculum is designed to help you master the knowledge you’ll need to pass the bar examination and competently practice law. With 65 required credits – including Bar Exam Skills – you will have a class in almost every subject tested on the bar examinations in all 50 states.
Required Courses
- Advocacy [3]
- Bar Exam Skills [3] or Florida Bar Exam Skills [3]
- Business Organizations [3]
- Civil Procedure I [3]
- Civil Procedure II [3]
- Constitutional Law I [3]
- Constitutional Law II [3]
- Contracts I [3]
- Contracts II [3]
- Criminal Law [3]
- Criminal Procedure [3]
- Drafting [2]
- Equity & Remedies [2]
- Evidence [3]
- Introduction to Law I [0]
- Personal & Prof. Responsibility [3]
- Property I [3]
- Property II [3]
- Research & Writing [3]
- Secured Trans. [2]
- Taxation [2]
- Torts I [3]
- Torts II [3]
- Wills, Estates, and Trusts [3]
Elective Courses
WMU-Cooley Law School offers a wide variety of electives. Not all electives are offered every semester. Schedules are prepared on the basis of need, professor availability, and student demand.