Immigration Law Certificate | New England Law
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Immigration Law Certificate | New England Law
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By studying immigration law at New England Law | Boston, you will experience the true work of an immigration lawyer, from assisting individuals looking to enter or remain in the U.S. to helping businesses navigate international hiring to developing policies with global implications. And you’ll be at the forefront of human rights and national security issues, such as refugee and asylum claims, human trafficking, and transnational migration.
Tackle Emerging Issues
Understand the multifaceted arena of Immigration Law as you explore its evolving issues, including:
Administrative Law
Business Immigration Law
Crimmigration
Immigration Law
Immigration Law Research
Human Trafficking Law and Policy
Law Practice Management
Refugee and Asylum Law
U.S. Immigration Law
The Center for International Law & Policy
Gain hands-on experience in one of today’s most dynamic and impactful areas of practice through our immigration law offerings. Learn from faculty and practitioners deeply involved in the field as you prepare to navigate the complexities of immigration law with confidence and purpose.
Learn more
Immigration Law Concentration Courses
To earn a concentration in Immigration Law, choose 10 credits from any of these exciting electives.
This course is designed for students interested in regulatory law and those who seek additional coverage of pertinent constitutional law topics. Coverage includes the sources and nature of agency authority, agency rule making and adjudication, and judicial review of agency action. Constitutional issues addressed include the interplay of power among the three federal branches, procedural due process, and justiciability issues such as standing, ripeness, and mootness. Special emphasis is placed on the federal Administrative Procedure Act; state analogs may be studied as well. Attention also may be given to the internal functioning of typical administrative bodies and to the relationship between regulators and the regulated community.
The world of immigration in practice can be divided into family, court, and business immigration. Business immigration addresses both temporary and long-term solutions for individuals who need permission to remain in the United States where the purpose is related to an employment opportunity, one’s professional accomplishments, or investment opportunities. Business Immigration will offer detailed information regarding business immigration law and practice, with a focus on current practice and procedures in the administrative law system of the federal agencies regulating immigration. During each class, students will put their knowledge into practice by working through increasingly complex problems designed to orient them around business immigration issues and problems. Additionally, students will be assigned a short research project of immigration requirements of other countries which serve as the basis of a discussion of US immigration in the context of a global market. Students should come away with a working knowledge of representing employers and employees in Business Immigration law.
This course addresses the historical and contemporary relationship between criminal and immigration law. Intended for students interested in practicing Immigration or Criminal Law, the course will explore how various pleas, sentences, and convictions impact foreign nationals. The course covers criminal grounds of deportability and inadmissibility, categorization of crimes under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), types of immigration relief available to foreign nationals with criminal history, and postconviction relief for foreign nationals in criminal court. The course is practice oriented. Students should come away with an understanding of how criminal attorneys should handle cases involving noncitizens. It also will provide a toolbox for immigration attorneys for advising criminal defense attorneys in criminal proceedings, for practice before the immigration courts, and for seeking postconviction relief in criminal court.
This clinical course gives students an opportunity to participate in and to analyze the work of a lawyer in a government setting. Participants will spend 12 hours per week working in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office under the supervision of assistant attorneys general or another government agency. Students may assist with various aspects of litigation, such as research, investigation, pleadings, discovery, motions, trials, and appeals. Students must attend a weekly, two-hour class that will explore the skills required in representing the government as well as such policy issues as defining the “public interest” and the conflicts between representing the public and defending the government. NOTE: ELIGIBILITY FOR THIS COURSE IS DEPENDENT ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A BACKGROUND CHECK. Prerequisites/corequisites include Evidence or Trial Practice. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
The course surveys relevant international laws, the convention and protocol, as well as U.S. laws and procedures governing human trafficking, and compares those to the European Union approach. Students review an array of civil and criminal cases, and the domestic legislative history to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and its reauthorization acts to understand how human trafficking laws and regulations have evolved since first promulgated in 2000. Students will gain a broad understanding of factors that drive trafficking, the routes used by traffickers, and the means by which law enforcement officers find victims and prosecutors make cases against traffickers. Finally, through use of a simulation, students will learn how to prepare a T-visa application for a victim of human trafficking in the United States.
The objective of the course is to provide the student with a general knowledge of immigration laws and procedures in the United States. Focus is on the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the specific procedures established for the processing of affirmative applications for status, as well as defending against removal. The course covers the constitutional authority of the federal government to legislate and regulate immigration, nonimmigrant and immigrant visas (including family and employment based), grounds of inadmissibility and deportability, and defenses against removal. It also touches on asylum law and issues impacting those present without documentation. The course is practice oriented, with theory grounding and contextualizing aspects of the course, as relevant.
Students in this clinical component will work in law offices or agencies that provide representation to aliens involved in proceedings before the INS or in court cases originating from such proceedings. Students will spend 10 (2-credit) or 15 (3-credit) hours per week in the field, assisting attorneys who are specialists in immigration law. Students will submit weekly journals, describing and reflecting on their experiences in the field, and will meet in a series of seminars with the course instructor and/or the Clinical Director to explore the relationship between the principles covered in the substantive class and the students’ fieldwork. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
Law Practice Management teaches students how to set up and run a small law firm or a solo practice; however, the skills and lessons learned in the class are transferable to any law practice, large or small. The class focuses on what is needed to launch your practice, how to generate business, how to establish a fee structure, how to actually handle the substantive work, how to manage clients, how to deal with opposing counsel, and how to fire a client. The class also discusses law firm economics, which is critical to understand, whether you are hanging your own shingle or working for someone else. Ethical considerations and malpractice traps in the context of the day-to-day practice of law are weekly themes. Additional elements of a law practice that are examined include 1) forming a business plan; 2) incorporation/partnership, employment/independent contracts; 3) insurance; 4) tax liabilities, annual and other filings and deposits, IOLTA; 5) space; 6) equipment; 7) management; 8) rainmaking and networking; 9) computer software; 10) banking: client funds, trust accounts, operating accounts, conveyancing accounts, IOLTA requirements; and 11) marketing and advertising. Former and current practitioners are guest lecturers, and in the past, they have included a disbarred lawyer to speak of his ethical missteps, bar counsel from the Office of Bar Counsel, a panel of seasoned practitioners, representatives from LOMAP and LCL. The course also involves a “shadowing” program, where students are matched with local practitioners based upon substantive law and geography. Each student meets with a local practitioner to discuss his or her practice and start to build the student’s network. Please check the most recent course registration information to determine if this course meets the Experiential Education/Professional Skills requirement.
This one-semester package includes both a clinical course and seminar. Students will spend 5 (1-credit), 10 (2-credit), or 15 (3-credit) hours per week in their fieldwork, depending on the number of credits for the clinical portion. In addition, all students will attend a weekly, 2-hour seminar (2 credits). The total package will therefore be offered for 3, 4, or 5 credits, with the 3-credit package offered only to Evening and Special Part-Time Program students. For the clinical portion, the core placements will include the New England Law Clinical Law Office and off-site placements, such as Greater-Boston Legal Services, where students will handle civil cases. Students will be practicing under Rule 3:03 of the Supreme Judicial Court, typically representing indigent clients. An explicit goal of this course is to provide our students with direct experience providing “legal services for the benefit of persons of limited means.” See MASS. R PROF. CONDUCT R. 6.1. Placements in governmental agencies will not be the focus of this clinic, since the placements in other clinical courses are so heavily weighted toward the government sector (e.g. Government Lawyer, Tax Clinic, Administrative Law Clinic, Criminal Procedure II Clinic, Federal Courts Clinic). The seminar portion of the course will focus on public interest law and the public interest lawyer. Classes, or units of classes, will include issues such as: introduction to substantive areas of public interest law (e.g., family law, housing law, government benefits); ethics (e.g. issues affecting public interest lawyers, regulation of the profession and delivery of legal services); clients (unmet legal needs, and issues of poverty, race and gender); the courts (dispensing justice to persons of limited means); and legal education (the role of law schools in preparing lawyers for practice). Issues from the students’ fieldwork will be incorporated into the classes, to strengthen the connections between classroom and fieldwork, as well as theory and practice. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Evidence or Trial Practice. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
The course will survey the relevant international laws and conventions governing refugees and asylum seekers, but the focus will be building the skills necessary to bring an asylum case in the United States. Each class will take students through one element of the complex categories available to asylum seekers (race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and social group) and review the points at which asylum law in the United States has intersected with politics in recent years (national security, international relations, immigration). Each class also will contain an exercise designed to prepare students to be practice-ready in preparing an asylum claim. Students should come away with understanding of the asylum law and process and be sufficiently prepared to bring an asylum claim. Please check the most recent course registration information to determine if this course meets the Experiential Education/Professional Skills requirements.
Stories of Success
“Choosing a law school with a part-time program enabled me to pursue my dream of becoming an attorney and provided the flexibility to build my Résumé through full-time internships, clinics, and employment.”
—
Christopher Hughes, Graduate
“I was able to experience what life is really like as counsel for an international corporation.”
—
Katie Milligan, Graduate
“Our graduates stay, grow their careers, and help build our communities. We’re woven into the fabric of New England.”
—
Karyn Polito, Graduate
“There are hundreds of law schools to choose from, but very few of them leave the impression New England Law does on its students.”
—
Czara Venegas, Graduate
Put What You Learn into Practice
Immigration Law Clinic
Gain practical, hands-on experience in immigration law from the inside. In this clinic, you’ll spend up to 15 hours per week in the field, working with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, legal service providers, or private law firms on real immigration matters. You’ll assist with client intake, legal research, case preparation, and advocacy, building the skills needed to navigate complex immigration processes while making a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals and communities.
Learn more
Public Interest Law Clinic
Gain practical, hands-on experience in public interest law from the inside. In this clinic, you’ll spend up to 15 hours per week in the field, working with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and legal service providers on matters that serve the public good. You’ll assist with client intake, legal research, case preparation, and advocacy, developing the skills needed to address critical legal issues while making a meaningful impact in underserved communities.
Learn more
Moot Court/Mock Trial Participation
Sharpen your research, presentation, and litigation skills—and demonstrate those skills to potential employers—as a member of a moot court/mock trial team. Coached by faculty members, these teams compete at such events as the National Tax Moot Court Competition and the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition in intellectual property law.
Learn more
Summer Fellowship Program
Work alongside practicing attorneys in law firms, corporations, or government agencies after your first year (second year for part‑time students). Receive a $4,500 stipend and make valuable professional connections as you spend eight to 10 weeks gaining experience drafting legal documents, managing case files, conducting research, and attending client meetings and court proceedings.
Learn more
Pro Bono
Working on pro bono projects through our
Center for Business Law
or
Business Law Society
is a rewarding way to build practical legal skills—and discover where your legal passions lie. You’ll serve clients in need, gain valuable hands-on experience, and may earn recognition on your law school transcript. An initiative popular with business students is the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, which provides free tax return preparation assistance to those in need (in conjunction with a national program).
Learn more
Immigration Law Advisor
Lauren Gearty
PhD Brandeis University
MA Brandeis University
JD Suffolk University Law School
BA College of the Holy Cross
Professor Lauren Gearty has a background in federal and administrative litigation. She has represented individuals seeking asylum, humanitarian visas, relief from immigration detention, and many other legal protections. Professor Gearty has also litigated tort-related matters in state and federal courts.
Learn more
Explore All New England Law Concentrations
Family Law Concentration
A top-ranked law school for family law, our 10-credit concentration covers this specialty’s wide spectrum of issues, including children and the law, domestic violence, law and the elderly, and juvenile law. It gives you ample…
Learn more
International Law Concentration
Prepare to meet our interconnected world’s demand for legal practitioners who specialize in international law as you explore your interest and gain practical experience in human rights law, international business, and global economic regulations.
Learn more
Litigation Concentration
Prepare for this exciting, multifaceted legal specialty that can lead to an exhilarating career. You’ll gain the skills to be an effective criminal or civil litigator equipped to represent clients in state and federal court,…
Learn more
Public Interest Law Concentration
Explore and gain real-world experience in this field’s many facets, including criminal law, environmental law, family law, immigration law, and public international law, while learning and working alongside others who share your purpose and your…
Learn more
Small Firm Practice
Whether you’re hoping to get in on the ground floor advising a startup, want to help the family business, or plan to launch your own practice, this 10-credit concentration will prepare you to hit the…
Learn more
Trusts & Estates Law
Help individuals and families plan and administer their estates and represent executors and trustees. You’ll learn to counsel clients in the transfer of their wealth to loved ones, and how to plan for the possibility…
Learn more
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Immigration Law
Home
>
Academics and Faculty
>
Certificates and Concentrations
>
Immigration Law
By studying immigration law at New England Law | Boston, you will experience the true work of an immigration lawyer, from assisting individuals looking to enter or remain in the U.S. to helping businesses navigate international hiring to developing policies with global implications. And you’ll be at the forefront of human rights and national security issues, such as refugee and asylum claims, human trafficking, and transnational migration.
Tackle Emerging Issues
Understand the multifaceted arena of Immigration Law as you explore its evolving issues, including:
Administrative Law
Business Immigration Law
Crimmigration
Immigration Law
Immigration Law Research
Human Trafficking Law and Policy
Law Practice Management
Refugee and Asylum Law
U.S. Immigration Law
The Center for International Law & Policy
Gain hands-on experience in one of today’s most dynamic and impactful areas of practice through our immigration law offerings. Learn from faculty and practitioners deeply involved in the field as you prepare to navigate the complexities of immigration law with confidence and purpose.
Learn more
Immigration Law Concentration Courses
To earn a concentration in Immigration Law, choose 10 credits from any of these exciting electives.
This course is designed for students interested in regulatory law and those who seek additional coverage of pertinent constitutional law topics. Coverage includes the sources and nature of agency authority, agency rule making and adjudication, and judicial review of agency action. Constitutional issues addressed include the interplay of power among the three federal branches, procedural due process, and justiciability issues such as standing, ripeness, and mootness. Special emphasis is placed on the federal Administrative Procedure Act; state analogs may be studied as well. Attention also may be given to the internal functioning of typical administrative bodies and to the relationship between regulators and the regulated community.
The world of immigration in practice can be divided into family, court, and business immigration. Business immigration addresses both temporary and long-term solutions for individuals who need permission to remain in the United States where the purpose is related to an employment opportunity, one’s professional accomplishments, or investment opportunities. Business Immigration will offer detailed information regarding business immigration law and practice, with a focus on current practice and procedures in the administrative law system of the federal agencies regulating immigration. During each class, students will put their knowledge into practice by working through increasingly complex problems designed to orient them around business immigration issues and problems. Additionally, students will be assigned a short research project of immigration requirements of other countries which serve as the basis of a discussion of US immigration in the context of a global market. Students should come away with a working knowledge of representing employers and employees in Business Immigration law.
This course addresses the historical and contemporary relationship between criminal and immigration law. Intended for students interested in practicing Immigration or Criminal Law, the course will explore how various pleas, sentences, and convictions impact foreign nationals. The course covers criminal grounds of deportability and inadmissibility, categorization of crimes under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), types of immigration relief available to foreign nationals with criminal history, and postconviction relief for foreign nationals in criminal court. The course is practice oriented. Students should come away with an understanding of how criminal attorneys should handle cases involving noncitizens. It also will provide a toolbox for immigration attorneys for advising criminal defense attorneys in criminal proceedings, for practice before the immigration courts, and for seeking postconviction relief in criminal court.
This clinical course gives students an opportunity to participate in and to analyze the work of a lawyer in a government setting. Participants will spend 12 hours per week working in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office under the supervision of assistant attorneys general or another government agency. Students may assist with various aspects of litigation, such as research, investigation, pleadings, discovery, motions, trials, and appeals. Students must attend a weekly, two-hour class that will explore the skills required in representing the government as well as such policy issues as defining the “public interest” and the conflicts between representing the public and defending the government. NOTE: ELIGIBILITY FOR THIS COURSE IS DEPENDENT ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A BACKGROUND CHECK. Prerequisites/corequisites include Evidence or Trial Practice. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
The course surveys relevant international laws, the convention and protocol, as well as U.S. laws and procedures governing human trafficking, and compares those to the European Union approach. Students review an array of civil and criminal cases, and the domestic legislative history to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and its reauthorization acts to understand how human trafficking laws and regulations have evolved since first promulgated in 2000. Students will gain a broad understanding of factors that drive trafficking, the routes used by traffickers, and the means by which law enforcement officers find victims and prosecutors make cases against traffickers. Finally, through use of a simulation, students will learn how to prepare a T-visa application for a victim of human trafficking in the United States.
The objective of the course is to provide the student with a general knowledge of immigration laws and procedures in the United States. Focus is on the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the specific procedures established for the processing of affirmative applications for status, as well as defending against removal. The course covers the constitutional authority of the federal government to legislate and regulate immigration, nonimmigrant and immigrant visas (including family and employment based), grounds of inadmissibility and deportability, and defenses against removal. It also touches on asylum law and issues impacting those present without documentation. The course is practice oriented, with theory grounding and contextualizing aspects of the course, as relevant.
Students in this clinical component will work in law offices or agencies that provide representation to aliens involved in proceedings before the INS or in court cases originating from such proceedings. Students will spend 10 (2-credit) or 15 (3-credit) hours per week in the field, assisting attorneys who are specialists in immigration law. Students will submit weekly journals, describing and reflecting on their experiences in the field, and will meet in a series of seminars with the course instructor and/or the Clinical Director to explore the relationship between the principles covered in the substantive class and the students’ fieldwork. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
Law Practice Management teaches students how to set up and run a small law firm or a solo practice; however, the skills and lessons learned in the class are transferable to any law practice, large or small. The class focuses on what is needed to launch your practice, how to generate business, how to establish a fee structure, how to actually handle the substantive work, how to manage clients, how to deal with opposing counsel, and how to fire a client. The class also discusses law firm economics, which is critical to understand, whether you are hanging your own shingle or working for someone else. Ethical considerations and malpractice traps in the context of the day-to-day practice of law are weekly themes. Additional elements of a law practice that are examined include 1) forming a business plan; 2) incorporation/partnership, employment/independent contracts; 3) insurance; 4) tax liabilities, annual and other filings and deposits, IOLTA; 5) space; 6) equipment; 7) management; 8) rainmaking and networking; 9) computer software; 10) banking: client funds, trust accounts, operating accounts, conveyancing accounts, IOLTA requirements; and 11) marketing and advertising. Former and current practitioners are guest lecturers, and in the past, they have included a disbarred lawyer to speak of his ethical missteps, bar counsel from the Office of Bar Counsel, a panel of seasoned practitioners, representatives from LOMAP and LCL. The course also involves a “shadowing” program, where students are matched with local practitioners based upon substantive law and geography. Each student meets with a local practitioner to discuss his or her practice and start to build the student’s network. Please check the most recent course registration information to determine if this course meets the Experiential Education/Professional Skills requirement.
This one-semester package includes both a clinical course and seminar. Students will spend 5 (1-credit), 10 (2-credit), or 15 (3-credit) hours per week in their fieldwork, depending on the number of credits for the clinical portion. In addition, all students will attend a weekly, 2-hour seminar (2 credits). The total package will therefore be offered for 3, 4, or 5 credits, with the 3-credit package offered only to Evening and Special Part-Time Program students. For the clinical portion, the core placements will include the New England Law Clinical Law Office and off-site placements, such as Greater-Boston Legal Services, where students will handle civil cases. Students will be practicing under Rule 3:03 of the Supreme Judicial Court, typically representing indigent clients. An explicit goal of this course is to provide our students with direct experience providing “legal services for the benefit of persons of limited means.” See MASS. R PROF. CONDUCT R. 6.1. Placements in governmental agencies will not be the focus of this clinic, since the placements in other clinical courses are so heavily weighted toward the government sector (e.g. Government Lawyer, Tax Clinic, Administrative Law Clinic, Criminal Procedure II Clinic, Federal Courts Clinic). The seminar portion of the course will focus on public interest law and the public interest lawyer. Classes, or units of classes, will include issues such as: introduction to substantive areas of public interest law (e.g., family law, housing law, government benefits); ethics (e.g. issues affecting public interest lawyers, regulation of the profession and delivery of legal services); clients (unmet legal needs, and issues of poverty, race and gender); the courts (dispensing justice to persons of limited means); and legal education (the role of law schools in preparing lawyers for practice). Issues from the students’ fieldwork will be incorporated into the classes, to strengthen the connections between classroom and fieldwork, as well as theory and practice. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Evidence or Trial Practice. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.
The course will survey the relevant international laws and conventions governing refugees and asylum seekers, but the focus will be building the skills necessary to bring an asylum case in the United States. Each class will take students through one element of the complex categories available to asylum seekers (race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and social group) and review the points at which asylum law in the United States has intersected with politics in recent years (national security, international relations, immigration). Each class also will contain an exercise designed to prepare students to be practice-ready in preparing an asylum claim. Students should come away with understanding of the asylum law and process and be sufficiently prepared to bring an asylum claim. Please check the most recent course registration information to determine if this course meets the Experiential Education/Professional Skills requirements.
Stories of Success
“Choosing a law school with a part-time program enabled me to pursue my dream of becoming an attorney and provided the flexibility to build my Résumé through full-time internships, clinics, and employment.”
—
Christopher Hughes, Graduate
“I was able to experience what life is really like as counsel for an international corporation.”
—
Katie Milligan, Graduate
“Our graduates stay, grow their careers, and help build our communities. We’re woven into the fabric of New England.”
—
Karyn Polito, Graduate
“There are hundreds of law schools to choose from, but very few of them leave the impression New England Law does on its students.”
—
Czara Venegas, Graduate
Put What You Learn into Practice
Immigration Law Clinic
Gain practical, hands-on experience in immigration law from the inside. In this clinic, you’ll spend up to 15 hours per week in the field, working with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, legal service providers, or private law firms on real immigration matters. You’ll assist with client intake, legal research, case preparation, and advocacy, building the skills needed to navigate complex immigration processes while making a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals and communities.
Learn more
Public Interest Law Clinic
Gain practical, hands-on experience in public interest law from the inside. In this clinic, you’ll spend up to 15 hours per week in the field, working with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and legal service providers on matters that serve the public good. You’ll assist with client intake, legal research, case preparation, and advocacy, developing the skills needed to address critical legal issues while making a meaningful impact in underserved communities.
Learn more
Moot Court/Mock Trial Participation
Sharpen your research, presentation, and litigation skills—and demonstrate those skills to potential employers—as a member of a moot court/mock trial team. Coached by faculty members, these teams compete at such events as the National Tax Moot Court Competition and the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition in intellectual property law.
Learn more
Summer Fellowship Program
Work alongside practicing attorneys in law firms, corporations, or government agencies after your first year (second year for part‑time students). Receive a $4,500 stipend and make valuable professional connections as you spend eight to 10 weeks gaining experience drafting legal documents, managing case files, conducting research, and attending client meetings and court proceedings.
Learn more
Pro Bono
Working on pro bono projects through our
Center for Business Law
or
Business Law Society
is a rewarding way to build practical legal skills—and discover where your legal passions lie. You’ll serve clients in need, gain valuable hands-on experience, and may earn recognition on your law school transcript. An initiative popular with business students is the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, which provides free tax return preparation assistance to those in need (in conjunction with a national program).
Learn more
Immigration Law Advisor
Lauren Gearty
PhD Brandeis University
MA Brandeis University
JD Suffolk University Law School
BA College of the Holy Cross
Professor Lauren Gearty has a background in federal and administrative litigation. She has represented individuals seeking asylum, humanitarian visas, relief from immigration detention, and many other legal protections. Professor Gearty has also litigated tort-related matters in state and federal courts.
Learn more
Explore All New England Law Concentrations
Family Law Concentration
A top-ranked law school for family law, our 10-credit concentration covers this specialty’s wide spectrum of issues, including children and the law, domestic violence, law and the elderly, and juvenile law. It gives you ample…
Learn more
International Law Concentration
Prepare to meet our interconnected world’s demand for legal practitioners who specialize in international law as you explore your interest and gain practical experience in human rights law, international business, and global economic regulations.
Learn more
Litigation Concentration
Prepare for this exciting, multifaceted legal specialty that can lead to an exhilarating career. You’ll gain the skills to be an effective criminal or civil litigator equipped to represent clients in state and federal court,…
Learn more
Public Interest Law Concentration
Explore and gain real-world experience in this field’s many facets, including criminal law, environmental law, family law, immigration law, and public international law, while learning and working alongside others who share your purpose and your…
Learn more
Small Firm Practice
Whether you’re hoping to get in on the ground floor advising a startup, want to help the family business, or plan to launch your own practice, this 10-credit concentration will prepare you to hit the…
Learn more
Trusts & Estates Law
Help individuals and families plan and administer their estates and represent executors and trustees. You’ll learn to counsel clients in the transfer of their wealth to loved ones, and how to plan for the possibility…
Learn more
See Yourself at New England Law
Think New England Law | Boston is the perfect fit for you but want to find out before you apply?
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