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Study in an environment that's driven by curiosity. Where excellence is the standard and inclusion is valued by all. Our curriculum balances hands-on learning with practical doctrinal education so you enter the real world ready and able to make a difference.

Our curriculum is designed to help you take advantage of every opportunity and overcome any challenge. As a practitioner of the law, you’ll be entrusted with the care of society’s laws—an important, impactful, and rewarding responsibility.

That’s why you can expect discipline, integrity, and excellence in every classroom and learning environment at Emory Law. When you study with us, you attain insight into the world’s institutions and values along with the power to think clearly and carefully.

Learning Outcomes for JD Candidates

Each student graduating with a J.D. from Emory University School of Law must have demonstrated –

(a) Knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural American law; specifically:

Competence in the subjects covered in Emory Law’s first-year curriculum: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Legislation and Regulation, Property, and Torts;
Competence in the subjects required in Emory Law’s upper level curriculum: Evidence and Legal Professional Responsibility;
Exposure to advanced areas of substantive law in Emory Law’s upper level elective curriculum.

(b) Competence in legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, and problem-solving in a legal context; i.e. identifying legal issues; researching federal and state legal authority; determining the law pertaining to legal issues; applying the law to specific facts; citing to legal authority.

Ability to analyze basic elements of a legal idea, experience or theory, by examining a particular fact situation in depth and considering its components in light of substantive law;
Ability to synthesize and organize information, ideas and/or experience;
Ability to apply legal authority, theories or concepts to practical problems or new factual situations.

(c) Competence in written and oral communication and advocacy in a legal setting.

Completion of curriculum in introductory legal research, analysis and communication;
Ability to complete an original legal research paper, meeting specific length and content requirements detailed by faculty policy;
Ability to analyze, understand and advocate a legal position, including skills in interviewing, fact investigation, negotiation, counseling, problem-solving, and legal strategy.

(d) Understanding and exercise of proper professional and ethical responsibilities to the law school, to clients and to the legal system.

Commitment and adherence to the Professional Conduct Code of Emory University School of Law;
Understanding of and compliance with the rules and values governing attorney conduct, including honesty and candor toward clients, other lawyers, courts and institutions;
Competence in the practical application of legal knowledge and learned legal skills, including multiple forms of legal drafting and legal advocacy;
Understanding of bar admission requirements and how to meet them;
Understanding of the increasingly diverse and global nature of modern legal practice.

(e) Other professional skills needed for competent and ethical participation as a member of the legal profession.

Reflect on the value of all legal practitioners engaging in various forms of public, community and/or legal service;
Reflect on the concept of forming a professional identity by combining doctrinal knowledge, ethical understanding, understanding of self and internalization of legal ethical standards;
Identify value of information technology as it relates to the roles and tasks of modern lawyers;