Suffolk Law Student Handbook 2019-2020

Faculty Director will determine in conjunction with the Law School Assistant Dean for Academic Services whether students submitting Notices of Concentration Completion have satisfied the requirements necessary to earn an academic concentration.

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Graduation

1. Certificate . Upon graduation, each student who has completed all requirements for the student’s academic concentration shall receive a certificate issued by the Law School indicating that the student has completed a concentration. 2. Certificate with Distinction. Concentration students who have either completed a thesis approved by a concentration Faculty Director or attained upon graduation a cumulative 3.500 average in all concentration courses shall receive a certificate indicating the student has completed the concentration with distinction. 3. Transcripts . Any academic transcript issued for a concentration graduate shall have a notation indicating that the student has completed the student’s concentration, and, as applicable, whether a student has completed the student’s concentration with distinction. An explanation of the nature of the concentration completed shall be attached to the transcript. A student may receive a certificate and transcript notation in only one academic concentration. The certificates and transcript notations will make clear that these are academic concentrations, not practice specialties. For each academic concentration designated by the Law Faculty, the Dean shall appoint a resident faculty member or members who shall serve as the concentration faculty director(s). The concentration Faculty Director(s) shall on an annual basis recommend to the Curriculum Committee for consideration by that committee and the Law School Faculty what courses or academic requirements should be added to or deleted from the concentration designation. However, routine amendments to concentration academic requirements may be adopted by the Curriculum Committee acting alone without subsequent Law School faculty validation. Routine amendments include amendments such as determining elective courses that may satisfy concentration requirements, as distinct from amendments affecting the structure or requirements of academic concentrations. In addition, the concentration Faculty Director(s) shall from time to time schedule conferences for faculty members teaching in the concentration, oversee the performance of adjunct faculty teaching in the concentration offering, and invite to the school speakers practicing in the area of the concentration. Faculty teaching in the concentration shall assist the concentration Faculty Director(s) in providing course selection and career development advice to students enrolled in the concentration. G. Concentration Directors

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