FIRST YEAR ELECTIVES

INFORMATION SHEET

First year full-time students have the opportunity to choose an elective class during the spring
semester of their first year at WCL. Evening students have greater freedom of choice in their
curriculum starting next fall. Students will enroll in one course from a list of available electives
to supplement the four required courses in the spring semester (Constitutional Law, Criminal
Law, Property, and Legal Rhetoric). Each student will be asked to provide a list of three elective
course selections in priority order. While each of the electives will have enrollment limits,
every effort will be made to place students in their first choice classes.

COURSES

Civil Procedure II: Trial through Appeal (Prof. Vaughn)

Comparative Law (Prof. Rajagopal)

Environmental Law (Prof. Hunter)

Intangible Property: Intersection of Personal and Intellectual Property (Prof. Burke)

International Law (Two sections: Prof. Chuang and Prof. Orentlicher)

Intro. to Intellectual Property Law and Policy (Prof. Farley)

Intro. to Public Law: Legislation and the Regulatory State (Prof. Varona)

Law and Economics (Prof. J. Baker)

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (Prof. Frost)

Modern Legal Theory (Prof. Hutchinson)

Women & the Law (Prof. Phelps)

Both sections of International Law are 3-credit classes and will meet for 1 hour and 20 minutes
twice per week. Each of the other courses will be two credit courses (approximately two hours of
class per week).

TIMING

A schedule of spring courses, including the electives, has been provided by the Office of the
Registrar. First-year students have until November 26th (the Monday after Thanksgiving) to enter
their first three choices, in order of preference, of three of the electives. Students will be
registered for their assigned sections of Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Legal Rhetoric, and
Property. Should there be more first choices for a class than there are spaces, we will use a
lottery system, to determine which students will be registered for that class. After the class is
full, the process will default to the second priority selection, and then to the third. Students will
be able to view their schedules through the university web portal, my.american.edu.

INFORMATION SESSION

An information session hosted by Associate Deans Jaffe and Niles will be held at Noon on
Monday, November 12 (6th floor JD student lounge) to provide more information about courses,
the registration process and to answer any questions that students may have.
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