Students who successfully complete a program at BSL will be able to demonstrate:

Legal and Law-Related Knowledge

Knowledge of specific areas or aspects of substantive law, legal theory, or legal procedure

Example: Acquiring knowledge of domestic / comparative / international / transnational legal doctrine and processes, jurisprudence, knowledge of legal theory, and statutory / regulatory law and processes.

Analysis and Decision-Making

Understand and develop solutions to legal problems

Example: Analyzing, being creative or innovative, exercising practical judgment, problem solving, and reasoning.

Policy Evaluation

Draw connections between specific legal issues and policy contexts or values

Example: Understanding or evaluating specific situations in light of fundamental principles and values such as equality, fairness, liberty, justice, or analytical orientations such as economics, public safety, or public policy.

Professional Identity

Responsibilities of lawyers to their profession and society

Example: Demonstrating awareness of professional commitments to continued learning, community involvement and service, diligence, engagement, ethics, honesty, integrity, and dedication.

Writing

Written professional communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Creating written texts for different audiences and purposes, advocating, negotiating, analyzing, memorializing transactions, or disseminating knowledge.

Oral Communication

Using oral communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Advising, advocating, counseling clients, influencing, listening, presenting information, speaking for professional purposes.

Information Gathering and Processing

Obtaining and assessing information about facts, law, procedure, and people

Example: Fact finding, interviewing, researching, and sorting known information so as to identify what is important for particular purposes.

Interpersonal Perspectives

Emotionally intelligent engagement, team building, collaboration, cooperation, and leadership

Example: Seeing the world through the eyes of others, resolving conflicts, empathizing, evaluating, mentoring, organizing and managing others.

Client and Practice Management

Skills required to ethically and effectively manage ethical, professional and business aspects of the legal profession

Example: Building relationships with clients, members of the legal profession, and others, handling stress, identifying client or community needs, organizing one's own work, using technology and electronic media.

Ph.D. in Higher Education

• Passing Part I and Part II of the comprehensive exams
• Defending the dissertation — graduated