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Georgetown Law's J.D. program can be completed over three years of full-time day study or four years of part-time evening study. The school offers LL.M. programs in Taxation, Securities and Finance Regulation, and Global Health Law, as well as a general LL.M. curriculum for lawyers educated outside the United States. Georgetown launched a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degree program for professional journalists in the 2007–08 academic year. It also offers the doctoral degree in law (J.S.D.).

Students are offered the choice of two tracks for their first year of study. "Curriculum A" is a traditional law curriculum similar to that taught at most schools, including courses in contracts, constitutional law, torts, property, criminal procedure, civil procedure, and legal research and writing. Three fourths of the day students at Georgetown receive instruction under the standard program (sections 1, 2, and 4).

"Curriculum B" is a more interdisciplinary, theoretical approach to legal study, covering an equal or wider scope of material but heavily influenced by the critical legal studies movement. The Curriculum B courses are ''Bargain, Exchange and Liability'' (contracts and torts), ''Democracy and Coercion'' (constitutional law and criminal procedure), ''Government Processes'' (administrative law), ''Legal Justice'' (jurisprudence), ''Legal Practice'' (legal research and writing), ''Legal Process and Society'' (civil procedure), and ''Property in Time'' (property). One fourth of the full time JD students receive instruction in the alternative Curriculum B program (Section 3).

Students in both curricula participate in a week-long introduction to international law between the fall and spring semesters.

JD, JSD, LLM programs

* Administrative law and government regulation

* Alternative dispute resolution

* Antitrust law

* Clinics

* Commercial and advanced contract law

* Communications law

* Constitutional law and government

* Corporate law and securities regulation

* Criminal law and criminal procedure

* Employment and labor law

* Environmental law

* Family law

* Health law, policy and bioethics

* Intellectual property, entertainment and technology law

* International and comparative legal studies

* International/national security law

* Jurisprudence

* Law and other disciplines

* Legal history

* Legal profession/professional responsibility

* Legal scholarship and writing

* Litigation and the judicial process

* Public interest law

* Real estate, land use and urban development

* Taxation

* Trusts and estates


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