Registration Guide 2024-2025

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for the Juris Doctor Degree

1. All students must complete 84 credits.

2. All students must complete the following courses: Contracts, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Property, Legal Practice Skills, Constitutional Law, and Torts.

3. All students must complete the course in Professional Responsibility.

4. Guided Curriculum : Any student who completed their first year with a GPA of 2.670 or higher but less than 3.000 must take at least one of the Advanced Survey of Core Legal Principles courses in the student’s final year.

a. Evidence; (4)

b. Trusts and Estates; (4)

c. Business Entity Fundamentals; (4)

d. Commercial Law Survey (4); or Secured Transactions; and Commercial Law Sales;

e. Criminal Procedure; (3)

f. Family Law; (3)

g. Advanced Survey: Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Property or Advanced Survey: Contracts, Evidence, Torts (must be taken in the student’s final year) (2)

[Revision to Rule I. A. 5. approved by law faculty on 5/19/16 and 3/2/17]

5. Students placed on Academic Warning must satisfactorily complete, and earn a grade of C or better in, the following courses: a. Legal Analysis & Methods (must be taken no later than the fall semester of the student’s second year) (2)

b. Advanced Legal Analysis (1)

c. Evidence (4)

d. Trusts and Estates (4)

e. Business Entity Fundamentals (4)

f. Commercial Law Survey (4) or Secured Transactions (3) and Commercial Law Sales (2)

g. Criminal Procedure (3)

h. Family Law (3)

i. Fundamentals of Law I (Fall semester) and Fundamentals of Law II (second semester; must be taken in the student’s final semester) With the exception of Legal Analysis & Methods and Advanced Legal Analysis (which must be taken in the spring of the second semester), and Fundamentals of Law I and II (which must be taken in the student’s finalsemester), these courses may be taken at any time prior to graduation.

Students on Academic Warning remain subject to all other graduation requirements.

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