The Immigration Appeals Practicum (IAP) is a one semester course offered in the Fall and Spring semesters. The IAP is 3 units and graded credit/no credit. Students will conduct substantial legal research and draft the initial brief. Students will work with their supervising attorney to discuss research results and outline and content of the brief. This will involve a weekly in-person meeting at MTO offices and as needed conferences by telephone or in-person. The MTO supervisor will work with the student to refine and perfect the brief, and ultimately, file the brief with the BIA.

This practicum course will provide students the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty supervisor on a pro bono amicus brief. Students enrolled in this course will be assigned a case and a faculty supervisor. Case selection will be based on a variety of considerations, including legal significance, social significance, inquiry by an interested party (including students), jurisdiction, service to the profession, as well as faculty interest and expertise.

Students enrolled in the Street Law Clinic teach legal life skills to high school students in our Los Angeles community. Law students step into the roles of teacher, mentor, and advocate to empower at-risk youth to make better choices, overcome adversity, and build stronger futures. The participatory lessons taught by the clinic law students inform the teenagers about their rights and the laws that apply to them, and provide legal information and resources they need to successfully transition to independent living and adulthood.

The Entertainment and the Arts Legal Aid Clinic is a clinical course in which students will provide legal services to real clients. Specifically, the Entertainment and the Arts Legal Aid Clinic will provide production legal services to "micro-budget" (generally under $500,000) movies that have already secured financing and are being produced during the school term.

This course examines tort causes of action for defamation and invasion of privacy. It covers both the common law of defamation, including the actions of libel and slander, and the constitutional limits placed on such actions. In addressing defamation, the course will explore the dramatic tension between reputational interests and interests in freedom of speech and expression. Although this conflict may arise in any defamation action, it is particularly acute when media outlets critique public officials and figures. Thus, special emphasis will be given to such cases.

The Appellate Litigation Clinic, which received the Ninth Circuit's 2018 Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award, offers students an opportunity to work with the professor in litigating pro bono appeals in the Ninth Circuit - up to and including oral argument before the court. Students will receive hands-on training in legal research and writing as well as substantive law as it applies to the cases.

This course examines judicial interpretation of statutes. To better understand the various approaches to statutory interpretation, the course examines how legislative bodies function and the rules which govern them. The course will also examine the initiative process, by which voters in California and elsewhere can directly change constitutional or statutory provisions.

The Immigration Law Clinic is a five unit semester course and is graded. There are no course prerequisites and no final examination. The Immigration Law Clinic will provide free legal representation to clients in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)(clients under the age of 21), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and U visa cases. This will involve cases where clients have been abused, neglected or abandoned or have been victims of a crime.

Entertainment externships place students with legal departments of studios and entertainment companies. Some examples include Warner Bros. Pictures, Rhino Records, and Fox Group Legal. Externs work closely with experienced attorneys on a range of projects generally involving intellectual property issues and/or contractual issues. The field placement is complimented by an academic component, including several class meetings on campus and/or via videoconferencing. For specific details, please see the Externship Office staff and course syllabus.Prerequisite: Copyright (538).

This course examines the issues arising in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, toxic torts, environmental disasters, and terrorist attacks. Initially, the course explores the tension between aggregate procedure and litigant autonomy, as well as ethical dilemmas arising in mass tort practice. The course then assesses attempts to adjudicate mass torts through multidistrict litigation, class actions, preclusion, quasi-class actions, and non-class claims funds.