2024-2025 Student Handbook

10. Students are responsible for compliance with these requirements. A student who has any doubt about the propriety of the student’s use of sources, or as to whether the work is expected to be original work, should consult with the relevant professor or supervisor before or at the time of submission of the work in question.

11. By submitting any written work for academic credit or for any school-related purpose, the student represents that the work submitted complies with the provisions of these regulations.

G. Credit for Clinical, Externship Field Placements, and Other Non-Classroom Activities

1. Cumulative limit on credits for non-classroom work and clinical fieldwork. A student may count no more than 16 credits of non-classroom work, clinical casework, and externship field placements toward the degree. A student may not count more than 12 credits of clinical casework and externship field placements toward the degree. These limits do not apply to the seminar component of an in house clinic or an externship. Example: Student takes a ten-credit in-house clinic, of which four credits are assigned to the seminar component and six to the casework. Only six credits count toward the credit restrictions in this subsection. Example: Student takes an externship that includes a two-credit seminar and three credits for fieldwork. Only the three credits of fieldwork count toward the credit restrictions in this subsection. 2. Limit on non-classroom activities in one semester. A student may not receive more than two units of credit in any semester for non-classroom ungraded activities, as opposed to regular course work. Non classroom ungraded activities which count toward the two-credit-per-semester limit include directed study, moot court and trial advocacy teams, Moot Court Honor Board, Research Assistantship, Concentration Thesis credits, Teaching Assistantship and law journal work (including Law Review, Transnational Law Review, Journal of Health and Biomedical Law, Journal of High Technology Law, and Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy). This limit does not apply to the fieldwork components of an externship or the casework component of a clinic. Example: Student takes an externship which includes a two-credit seminar and three credits for fieldwork. The student may still receive two credits in that semester for other non-classroom activities. Example: Student receives two credits for work on a law school journal. The student may not receive additional credits in the same semester for a directed study, research assistantship or concentration thesis. The student may receive credits for the fieldwork component of an externship or clinic in that semester. 3. Limit on enrollment in in-house clinics and externships. A student may only enroll in one in-house clinic while obtaining the Juris Doctor degree, unless the student is granted a waiver by the Director of Clinical Programs. Students may not enroll in an in-house clinic and an externship during the same semester. A student may not enroll in more than one externship for credit during a single semester. 4. Credit/no credit grades for non-classroom activities. Non-classroom activities which are not graded under the law school's generally applicable grading rules and fieldwork credits for externships shall be graded on a Credit/ No Credit basis. The grade of Credit shall be a satisfactory grade. The grade of No Credit shall be the equivalent of the grade of F. Students will receive a letter grade of Honors/Pass/LowPass/Fail for the seminar component of an externship and a grade of Pass/Fail for the fieldwork for the Prosecutors' Program. Both the seminar and casework components of all other in house clinics are graded. 5. The instructor in any non-anonymously graded course may elect to grade the course on an Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail basis. Such grades will not be calculated into a student's cumulative average. An instructor must notify the students at the first meeting of the course if the instructor elects the Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail basis of grading. For all purposes under these Regulations, the grades

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