The Constitutional Law Certificate offers the opportunity to focus your advanced studies in law school in the area of constitutional law and/or civil rights. The Con Law Certificate may be of interest to those students who would like to concentrate their intellectual study in the complexities of constitutional law and its broad topics of governmental power and individual rights. The Certificate may also appeal to those interested in a career in civil rights litigation, social justice work, governmental representation, or criminal law, among others. The study of constitutional law delves into the subjects of daily front-page news--from social justice and inequality to questions of individual privacy, judicial power, freedom of religion, election law, legal history, race, and gender, and more.<br><br>The Con Law Certificate and associated classes are enhanced by the expertise of the faculty working under the umbrella of the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron. The Center is one of only a few national constitutional resource centers established by Congress for the study of constitutional law. This expertise provides Akron Law students with a unique opportunity, in addition to the fact that this type of certificate in con law or civil rights is offered by only five or so law schools nationwide.