Courses in graduate departments and professional schools throughout the University are available to law students. In addition, credit is given for many forensic activities. Some students concentrate on the more traditional fare of large courses in major areas of the law, such as business law, constitutional law, property, and taxation. Others for the most part take seminars and independent work with faculty members or participate intensively in the Law School's varied clinical programs. Most combine these approaches.
Extracurricular interests differ widely.
As the acceptable forms of legal study grow steadily more diverse, students can pursue special interests. The faculty encourage catholicity and support individual reading courses and research for those with particular interests or research designs. Students who seem to enjoy most and benefit most from the Law School view it as a hospitable environment within which to take the initiative in pursuing course, research,and extracurricular interests. The Law School is a distinct community within the University. The level of talent and ambition produces a degree of intellectual probing and assertion that may disquiet some students but that others will find agreeably provocative.