Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law will offer a standard law school curriculum, to ensure that its graduates are well-equipped to pass the bar examination upon graduation and to be competent legal professionals. That means that it will offer its students classes in all of the subjects that are tested on the bar examination; and that Drexel Law students (like students in any law school) may pursue a general program in the law. A rich variety of upper-division courses will be complemented by the co-op program and clinical opportunities.

The Earle Mack School of Law’s initial areas of concentration will reflect the strengths of Drexel University, key areas of legal practice in the Philadelphia and mid-Atlantic region, and developing areas of law. The curriculum will therefore develop academic concentrations in three of today’s most cutting-edge areas of law practice, where the opportunities for employment are expanding:

These concentrations encompass not only classroom courses, but also co-ops, clinics, and research opportunities for students.

Exceptional faculty to provide leadership in these areas have either already been appointed or will be among key faculty additions over the next two years. Specific concentration program requirements will be determined in ample time for all students currently enrolled or who will matriculate in 2008/09, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities available. Other concentrations may be identified in consideration of student interest and faculty resources.

The concentrations will not be required; they will be electives for our students. The Earle Mack School of Law will offer courses in every important area of legal knowledge and practice, public and private, regional, national and international, and that whether a student chooses to undertake a particular concentration, he or she will graduate with a J.D. degree which will reflect an education that fully qualifies the recipient to enter the practice of law anywhere in the United States.