Although George Mason offers a number of structured specialization options but students are not required to specialize in their legal studies.

JD Course Requirements

All George Mason law students, whether pursuing a specialty track or the General Law Program, need to complete 89 credit hours for graduation.
Forty of those credit hours are in general courses; the remaining credit hours are in elective courses.
In addition, students must complete the School of Law's writing requirement.

Law Concentrations

Students who would like greater freedom in their course selection while also gaining the benefits of some degree of specialization, George Mason offers law concentrations listed below.

To complete a law concentration, a student must earn from 14 to 16 credit hours in a particular area.

Antitrust Law Concentration
Communications Law Concentration
Corporate and Securities Law Concentration
Criminal Law Concentration
Homeland and National Security Law Concentration
Intellectual Property Law Concentration
International Business Law Concentration
Legal and Economic Theory Concentration
Litigation Law Concentration
Personal Law Concentration
Regulatory Law Concentration
Tax Law Concentration
Technology Law Concentration

Course Descriptions

Law and Economics courses
Intellectual Property courses
Law and Technology courses
George Mason University Course Descriptions


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