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Our acclaimed faculty - scholars, practitioners, and experts in their fields - teach various classes. To complete your Juris Master (JM) degree, you will take these courses:
- Introduction to the American Legal System (3 credits)
- Analysis, Research and Communications for Professionals (3 credits)
- Contracts (3 or 4 credits)
- Law and Legal Professionals (3 credits)
- Electives for a total of 30 credits
- JM Law Foundations Workshop and Virtual Boot Camp
- The Capstone Experience
Emory Law offers courses both online and hybrid study in four concentrations:
- Business Law and Regulation covers corporate governance and compliance, civil liability for corporations, regulation, legal frameworks for deal-making, transactional due diligence, and other topics.
- Data, Privacy, and Technology Law covers privacy, ethics, and the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace; trademark, patent, and copyright law; and licensing and trade secrets.
- Employment Law and Human Resources explores employment at will, employees versus independent contractors, employee privacy in the workplace, workmen’s compensation, disability, and discrimination, among other topics.
- Health Care Law, Policy, and Regulation explores topics related to health care regulation, mental health policy, law and public health, disability, the business of health care, and more.