2024-2025 Student Handbook

8. Family Law

9. Fundamentals of Law I and II (must be taken in the student’s final year)

With the exception of Legal Analysis & Methods, Advanced Legal Analysis, and Fundamentals of Law I & II, these courses may be taken at any time prior to graduation. Students on Academic Warning remain subject to all other graduation requirements.

Students who receive an unsatisfactory grade in the above courses must participate in the Academic Support Program and are required to repeat the course in which the unsatisfactory grade was received.

Students on Academic Warning may not exceed the normal semester credit load for their division.

The Academic Warning designation is not subject to appeal.

e. Guided Curriculum

Any student who completed their first-year prior to the 2016-2017 academic year with a cumulative GPA of 2.670 or higher but less than 3.000 in the first year must take Advanced Survey of Core Legal Principles in the student’s final year. Any student who completes their first year during the 2016-2017 academic year or later with a cumulative GPA of 2.670 or higher but less than 3.000 must complete all of the following courses in order to be eligible to graduate:

1. Evidence;

2. Trusts and Estates;

3. Business Entity Fundamentals;

4. Commercial Law Survey; or Commercial Sales and Secured Transactions;*

5. Criminal Procedure;

6. Family Law; and

7. Advanced Survey of Core Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Property or Advanced Survey of Contracts, Evidence & Torts (must be taken in the student’s final year).

*Students subject to Guided Curriculum who entered the law school prior to May 2022 may satisfy requirement (4) by taking any one of these three courses.

The Guided Curriculum designation and requirements are a result of a student's first-year GPA. Accordingly, the designation and requirements do not change if a student's GPA rises above 3.000 in subsequent semesters. The Guided Curriculum designation is not subject to appeal.

f. Special Provisions for Students in the Accelerated JD Program

i. Any student enrolled in the Accelerated JD Program who has completed fewer than three semesters of study is a “first - year” student within the meaning of section 1. Any other student in the Accelerated JD Program is an “upper - class” student within the meaning of section 2.

ii. For students in the Accelerated JD Program:

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