The JD program requires students to complete 90 credits for graduation. Of those 90 credits, 76 must be in graded courses. Students spend their first year taking required foundational courses in Contracts, Property, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Legal Writing. Evidence and Professional Responsibility are required in the second year. Additionally, students must fulfill advanced writing and experiential requirements.
Whether a student chooses to enter the traditional practice of law or to take a non-traditional career path, the firm doctrinal grounding offered at UW, coupled with our extensive opportunities for experiential learning and individualized instruction, ensure that our students build the skills necessary to be successful in any of their professional endeavors upon graduation.
Joint Degree Programs
The practice of law has become increasingly complex, requiring lawyers to think broadly as problem-solvers. Joint degree programs permit students to personalize their study of law by adding knowledge, skills, and analytical tools from other disciplines.
Capitalizing on the University's depth of resources, the College of Law collaborates with University graduate departments to offer multiple joint degree programs. Students who wish to pursue a joint degree must apply for admission to both programs; however, both departments will recognize a number of credits from the corresponding program to allow students to earn both degrees in a shorter period of time. You must be admitted to the College of Law before applying to the joint degree of choice. Typically the timeframe for applying to the joint degree is during the fall semester of the first year of law school.
The University of Wyoming College of Law offers three joint degree programs.
- JD / Environment and Natural Resources (MA ENR)
- JD / Business Administration (MBA)
- JD / Public Administration (MPA)
Each graduate program has unique admission criteria, so interested students are encouraged to contact the respective program for application details. Once admitted to both programs, law students can begin taking non-law courses the summer following their first year of law school.
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Masters Environment and Natural Resources
The University of Wyoming’s JD and MA ENR joint degree program allows you to learn the critical aspects of environmental law. Wyoming provides an ideal setting for garnering hands on learning opportunities for energy resource law, water resource law, environmental protection law and much more. Blended expertise in law and ENR allows graduates to work in a variety of integrative fields, such as public policy, land management, consulting, private industry and nonprofit administration.
Learn More!Master of Business Administration
The University of Wyoming’s JD and MBA joint degree program gives you the opportunity to specialize in techniques and concepts relating to owning and/or operating your own law firm, practicing corporate law or working in the corporate world, and other career paths such as mediation, estate planning, etc.
Master of Public Administration
The University of Wyoming’s JD and MPA joint degree program trains students in law as it relates to working in management, planning and leadership roles for agencies and organizations. In particular, this degree focuses on constitutional rights and procedures, policy making and implementation, citizen input and citizen responsibility.
