{"id":39691,"date":"2026-02-27T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=39691"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:34:59","slug":"declare-your-interest-in-pursuing-a-certificate-in-advocacy-business-health-public-interest-or-tax-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/declare-your-interest-in-pursuing-a-certificate-in-advocacy-business-health-public-interest-or-tax-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Declare Your Interest in Pursuing a Certificate in Advocacy, Business, Health, Public Interest, or Tax Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law certificate programs provide students with both specialized study and increased marketability.<\/p>\n<p>Students enrolled in the certificate programs take specialized course tracks and receive mentoring and guidance from faculty advisors<\/p>\n<p>We have 5 certificate programs, each with its own separate faculty advisor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocacy (Prof. Kritchevsky)<\/li>\n<li>Business (Prof. Copes)<\/li>\n<li>Health (Prof. Ramsey Mason)<\/li>\n<li>Public Interest (Prof. Brobst)<\/li>\n<li>Tax (Prof. Copes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students interested in pursuing certificates who were unable to attend find more information\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/law\/current-students\/certificate-programs.php\">here<\/a>\u00a0and can watch a recording of today\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mediasite.memphis.edu\/Mediasite\/Play\/3af745be28f74ec18f0e229b18eba30d1d\">Certificate Information Session<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interested students should declare their interest in pursuing an Advocacy, Business, Health, or Tax Certificate by completing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/law\/current-students\/certificate-programs.php\">Certificate Declaration Form<\/a> by Tuesday, March 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After declaring your interest,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umdegree.memphis.edu\/newdashboard\/\">UM Degree<\/a>, the University\u2019s degree auditing platform, can help you track your progress toward certificate requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, 1Ls who declare their interest in pursuing a certificate will be assigned to a certificate advisor for individual advising.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Dean Aden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law certificate programs provide students with both specialized study and increased marketability. Students enrolled in the certificate programs take specialized course&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39979,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions\/39979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}