Registration Guide 2024-2025

REGISTRATION RULES

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.

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.

Disclaimer: The Law School reserves the right to cancel a course due to low enrollment or for other reasons. Should this occur, students will be notified by Email. The Law Faculty reserves the right to change the schedule of classes, the program of instruction, the requirements for credits or degrees, and any rule or regulation established for the government of the student body in the school. Any such change may be made applicable to students already enrolled in the Law School.

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