Full-Time Juris Doctor Program of Study
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester | Credits | |
| LAWS 101 | Civil Procedure I | 2 |
| LAWS 103 | Contracts I | 3 |
| LAWS 107 | Torts | 4 |
| LAWS 111 | Legal Research & Writing I | 2 |
| LAWS 113 | Criminal Law | 3 |
| LAWS 690 | Foundations of Practice | 1 |
| Credits | 15 | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| LAWS 102 | Civil Procedure II | 2 |
| LAWS 104 | Contracts II | 3 |
| LAWS 105 | Property | 4 |
| LAWS 110 | Constitutional Law | 4 |
| LAWS 112 | Legal Research & Writing II | 2 |
| LAWS 790 | Foundations of Practice II | 0 |
| Credits | 15 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall Semester | ||
| Core Elective 1 | 4 | |
| Core Elective 1 | 3 | |
| General Electives | 7 | |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| Core Elective 1 | 4 | |
| Core Elective 1 | 3 | |
| Experiential Course 2 | 2 | |
| General Electives | 5 | |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Third Year | ||
| Fall Semester | ||
| LAWS 321 | Lawyers' Professional Responsibility | 3 |
| Experiential Course 2 | 2 | |
| Core Elective 1 | 4 | |
| General Electives | 5 | |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| Core Elective 1 | 3 | |
| Experiential Course 2 | 2 | |
| General Electives | 9 | |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Total Credits | 86 | |
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Full-time students must take 3 core electives in the second year.
Core electives are:
LAWS*114 - Administrative Law - 3 credits. Offered fall and spring
LAWS*205 - Business Organizations - 4 credits. Offered spring only.
LAWS*305 - Federal Income Tax - 4 credits. Offered fall only.
LAWS*307 - Trusts & Estates - 3 credits. Offered fall and spring.
LAWS*311 - Evidence - 3 credits. Offered fall only.
LAWS*323 - Commercial Law - 4 credits. Offered spring only.
Students must take a total of four core electives. One of the four must be Federal Income Tax or Commercial Law.
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Experiential Learning Requirement (applicable to students matriculating Fall 2016 or later): Each student must also satisfactorily complete “one or more experiential course(s) totaling at least 6 credits,” as provided by current ABA Standard 303(a)(3) and related provisions. Certain courses are always designated as “experiential courses” that will satisfy the requirement. They are: all law clinics except Advanced Clinic; all externships including Field Placement II; Interviewing & Counseling Clients; Negotiation; Trial Practice and Advanced Trial Practice. Other courses that may satisfy this requirement, depending on the design choices that the particular professor makes, include: Advanced Family Law II: Courtroom Advocacy, Advanced Juvenile Law: Delinquency Proceedings, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy Lab, Commercial Transactions Workshop, Estate Planning and Drafting, Financial Planning: Principles and Taxation, Judicial Clerkship Seminar, Land Use Practicum, Representation in Mediation, and Visual Persuasion in the Law. (This list is subject to revision; each semester the registrar will designate which courses taught the following semester will satisfy the requirement.) Any paper(s) written in connection with a course or courses used to satisfy the Experiential Learning Requirement may be used to satisfy no more than three of the four papers required to satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement.