Emphasis Areas

Our curriculum provides a well-rounded education that prepares students for a variety of careers after law school. We offer a range of degree emphasis areas for students who want a specialized education.

Emphasis Areas at UMKC Law

When you successfully complete your emphasis area requirements, your final transcript will include your degree emphasis.

International Law

Provides a broad understanding of international law and an increased ability to work in foreign and multijurisdictional legal environments. By increasing multicultural awareness and intercultural skills, the program equips students with the knowledge and skills to start a career in an increasingly global and transnational environment.

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Intellectual Property Law

Prepares students for careers as intellectual property litigators and transactional lawyers by providing students with strong doctrinal and experiential foundations in the variety of topics that are commonly considered intellectual property, including copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and right of publicity.

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Urban, Land Use and Environmental Law

Prepares graduates to enter the job market with specialized, interdisciplinary knowledge of the issues of law and policy relevant to land use — development and redevelopment, housing, the environment and state, regional and local government.

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Advocacy

Puts advocacy in action through experiential learning with classroom simulations, oral arguments and mock trials. Prepares students to effectively represent a client from the first meeting through the final appeal.

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Business and Entrepreneurial Law

Reflects the multifaceted challenges of forming and sustaining businesses in compliance with a variety of modern laws and regulations. Prepares students to be effective as advisers, regulators, owners or other participants in for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations and ventures with both for-profit
and social missions.

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Child and Family Law

Provides students with the knowledge, perspective and skills necessary to serve the whole family — from infants to elders — and to lead the nation in improving family law standards and practice.

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