It offers students the opportunity to sample a broad array of areas of the law and to design a program of study that fits their individual interests and career plans. The Law School offers over 175 different elective courses each year. In addition to introductory level and more advanced courses in a variety of fields, there are some highly specialized areas of the curriculum that allow students to gain considerable expertise in a field. Those specialized areas include international law, environmental law, intellectual property law, and government regulation and constitutional law. While dedicated to excellence in the classroom, GW Law's faculty has remained at the forefront of legal scholarship both at the national and international level.
Many faculty members have leading casebooks in their fields.
Many of them have served as judicial clerks for Supreme Court justices or judges on other courts. Many are involved in developing public policy for government agencies and Congress, while others serve as advisers to the private sector. Through scholarship as well as commitment to public service the faculty has made a major impact, not only in the way the law is taught, but on the way it is practiced.