Required Courses
- Legislation - Regulation or Administrative Law
- Technology & Communications Law Practicum
One of the following:
- Cyberlaw
- Artificial Intelligence Law & Regulation (can be taken as a required course for the Communications/Data Privacy track instead of Information Privacy (which is not being offered this year) or can be taken as an elective for either track)
Elective courses
(Three required; Must be different from the courses used to fulfill the Required Courses — e.g., Cyberlaw law cannot count as both a Required Course and an Elective; note that not every course listed as an elective will be a course focused on communications and data privacy law topics, but may, rather, be a course focused on topics complementary to communications and data privacy law.
- Agency Partnership
- Antitrust
- Art Law
- Artificial Intelligence Law & Regulation (new course offering)
- College Athletics and the Law (new course offering)
- Compliance & Corporate Responsibility
- Copyright Law
- Cyberlaw
- Digital Assets/Cryptocurrency
- e-Discovery
- Entertainment Law
- Federal Regulation of Food and Drugs
- Free Speech in Universities (new course offering)
- Government Contracts
- Information Privacy (not offered this year)
- In-House Counsel
- Intellectual Property Transactions (offered 2025 Spring)
- International Communications Law
- International Intellectual Property Law
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Law
- Legal Aspects of Social Media
- Legal Drafting Seminar – Contract Drafting
- Legal Drafting Seminar – Legislative Drafting
- Legal Drafting Seminar - Litigation Drafting
- Lobbying and the Law
- Music Law
- National Security Law and Policy Seminar
- Patent Law
- Patent Prosecution
- Remedies
- Space Law
- Sports and the Law
- Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Transition to Practice
(One required; choose one from the following courses unless fulfilling this requirement with a clinic)
- Legislation: The Making of a Federal Statute
- Negotiations: Theory and Practice
- Public Policy Practicum
- Separation of Powers Clinic (new course offering)
- Technology & Communications Law Practicum
- Trial Practice
Externship Opportunities
LTI students following the communications law track are required to complete one for-credit
externship focused on communications/data privacy law with an organization outside the Law School
and are strongly encouraged to complete at least one additional communications/data
privacy law-focused externship during their course of study. With permission of the directors, current
full-time communications/data privacy work experience may be used to fulfill the externship
requirement. The following is a partial list of organizations where students have served in externships:
externship focused on communications/data privacy law with an organization outside the Law School
and are strongly encouraged to complete at least one additional communications/data
privacy law-focused externship during their course of study. With permission of the directors, current
full-time communications/data privacy work experience may be used to fulfill the externship
requirement. The following is a partial list of organizations where students have served in externships:
Federal Government
- Department of Commerce
- Department of State
- Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Executive Office of the President of the United States
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- NTIA Department of Justice
- Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Subcommittee on Communications Technology
- U.S. House of Representatives
Associations and Public Interest Organizations
- CTIA - The Wireless Association
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Future of Privacy Forum
- National Association of Broadcasters
- National Public Radio
- National Security Counselors
- Network Advertising Initiative
- Newspaper Association of America
- Personal Communications Industry Association
- Public Knowledge
- Radio Television News Directors Association
- Recording Industry Association of America
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Telecommunications Industry Association
Businesses
- AT&T
- Comcast
- Fox Television Stations, Inc
- Mobile Satellite Ventures
- National Geographic Channel
- NBC-Universal
- Nokia T-Mobile
- Verizon
Law Firms
- Arnold and Porter
- Fletcher Heald & Hildreth
- Lampert, O'Connor, Johnston P.C.
- Latham & Watkins
- Venable LLP
- Wiley Rein LLP
- Wilkinson Barker Knauer
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP