Programs for Non-Lawyers
Master the skills and language of the law to advance your career.
The School of Law offers a variety of programs for non-lawyer professionals. Each program is committed to enhancing your understanding of the law and helping you become indispensable to your employer when it comes to navigating complex legal terrain.
Online Programs for Non-Lawyers
The School of Law offers online programs to help non-lawyer professionals enhance their understanding of the law and become indispensable to their employers when it comes to navigating complex legal and regulatory terrain.
Master of Legal Studies (MLS)
A distinctive program for the aspiring professional eager to obtain the tools, skills and expertise to thrive and grow in your industry
Graduate Certificate in Business Law
To provide professionals in large and small enterprises with an ability to recognize and leverage the laws that regulate business organizations and transactions
Graduate Certificate in Health Law
If you work in the healthcare industry and are looking to expand your legal knowledge, but are not quite ready to pursue a master’s degree
Graduate Certificate in Human Resources (HR) Law
Responding to an increasing need for professionals with a solid understanding of the laws and regulations that govern employee management.
Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law
Designed to provide professionals who work in intellectual property, technology transfer, licensing, as well as inventors and entrepreneurs, with the skills they need to recognize and protect intellectual property rights.
Data Privacy Fundamentals
Data Privacy Fundamentals is designed to introduce data privacy to a wide audience and help each participant see how data privacy has evolved as a compelling concern to public and private organizations as well as individuals.
Meet Our Faculty
Rose Zoltek-Jick
Associate Teaching Professor
University of Toronto, BA 1977
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB 1981
Harvard University, LLM 1986
Lua Kamál Yuille
Professor of Law and Business; Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Education
The Johns Hopkins University, BA 2002
Columbia University School of Law, JD 2004
Patricia Williams
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities
Wellesley College, BA 1972
Harvard University, JD 1975
Lucy Williams
Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration
Baylor University, BA 1969
University of Chicago, JD 1974
Evan Walton
Clinical Professor and Director, Community Business Clinic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS 2010
Wake Forest Law, JD 2018
Duke University, Nonprofit Management Certificate 2018
Dan Urman
Director of Online and Hybrid Programs
UCLA, BA 2001
University of Oxford, M.Phil 2003
Harvard Law School, JD 2006