Women, Gender and the Law

A Career in Women, Gender, and the Law

Haub Law’s Women, Gender & the Law Path to Practice includes a wide range of courses, clinics, externships, and extracurricular activities for students who are interested in all aspects of gender justice, including children’s rights, family law, LGBTQ issues, legislative reform, the judicial system, and public policy at the local, state, national and international levels. Students should take the foundational course of Family Law, followed by a choice from a menu of intermediate related courses including Feminist Legal Theory; Sexuality, Gender & the Law; Public Health Law; Poverty Law; Asylum & Refugee Law, and more than 30 others. The Path to Practice culminates in a practical, skills-based capstone experience or externship, such as a family court externship, a guided research project, or participation in a legal clinic, among many other opportunities.

Path to Practice Overview

At least 15 total credits are recommended for successful completion of the Women, Gender and the Law Path to Practice.

- Family Law 712
Students should take at least one Focused Course from this list:
At least four recommended:
Student should take at least one skills course from this list:
- Externship: Family Court LAW 694 (3 credits)
- Externship: Legal Services Law 829/Public Health Law LAW 693 (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Externship: Criminal Justice (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Externship: Guided LAW 993FP (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Guided Research LAW 723 (minimum 2 credits) (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty supervisor; sex-related or gender-related project required; further note that guided research does not satisfy any other skills-related requirement the school may have)
- Advanced Legal Research LAW 670 (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor; sex-related or gender-related final project required)
- Pro Bono Scholars Program participation (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor; sex-related or gender-related placement required)
- Any seminar in which student submits a paper that would be eligible to earn upper-level writing requirement (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and faculty instructor of seminar; sex-related or gender-related final paper required; further note that a seminar paper does not satisfy any other skills-related requirement the school may have)
- Any semester-long involvement in clinical program offered by John Jay Legal Services (with advance approval of Path to Practice director and Director of John Jay Legal Services; sex-related or gender-related casework required)

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Qualification Requirements

All candidates must maintain an average grade of B or better in the Path to Practice courses and may have no grade below C in any of the Path to Practice courses. In addition, all candidates must maintain an overall GPA of 2.5 or better.