Students take three types of electives: Yale-NUS electives that count toward their Yale-NUS degree; Law electives for their LL.B.; and courses that fulfil the Combined Law-Liberal Arts (CLLA) requirement for both degrees.

Examples of CLLA electives offered at Yale-NUS include

• Ancient Greek Political Philosophy
• Anthropology of Human Rights
• Anthropology of Violence
• Chinese Political Philosophy: Confucianism & Its Rivals
• Colonialism and Decolonization
• Conducting Qualitative Socio-legal Research
• Crime and Punishment
• Global Histories of Slavery
• Interdisciplinary Legal Research Methods
• Novel Evidence: 19th-century British Fiction and the Law
• Law and Economics
• Money and the Rise of the State