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Graduation Requirements

Required Courses

Take and pass all required courses.

For those students entering fall semester 2006 or thereafter:

  • Advanced Legal Research (1)
  • Civil Procedure (4), or Introduction to Civil Procedure (2) and Civil Procedure II (3), or Civil Procedure: Litigation Process (3) and Civil Procedure: Jurisdiction and Judgments (2)
  • Constitutional Law I: Governance (3)
  • Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights (3)
  • Contracts (4), or Introduction to Contracts (2) and Contracts II (3)
  • Criminal Law (3)
  • LAWR I (3)
  • LAWR II (2)
  • LAWR II: Research (1)
  • Legal Profession (2 or 3) or Legal Profession Seminar (3) or Professional Responsibility and Practice: The Rules and Reality (3)
  • Property (4) or Introduction to Property (2) and Property II (3)
  • Torts (4), or Introduction to Torts (2) and Torts II (3)

For those students entering fall semester 2004 or thereafter:

  • Advanced Legal Research (1)
  • Civil Procedure (4), or Introduction to Civil Procedure (2) and Civil Procedure II (3), or Civil Procedure: Litigation Process (3) and Civil Procedure: Jurisdiction and Judgments (2)
  • Constitutional Law I: Governance (3)
  • Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights (3)
  • Contracts (4), or Introduction to Contracts (2) and Contracts II (3)
  • Criminal Law (3)
  • LAWR I (3)
  • LAWR II (2)
  • LAWR II: Research (1)
  • LAWR III (2) (or alternate courses when available; see registration information)
  • Legal Profession (2 or 3) or Legal Profession Seminar (3) or Professional Responsibility and Practice: The Rules and Reality (3)
  • Property (4) or Introduction to Property (2) and Property II (3)
  • Torts (4), or Introduction to Torts (2) and Torts II (3)

For those who entered between fall semester 2001 and fall semester 2003:

  • Advanced Legal Research (1)
  • Civil Procedure (4)
  • Constitutional Law I: Governance (3)
  • Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights (3)
  • Contracts (4)
  • Criminal Law (3)
  • LAWR I (3)
  • LAWR II (3) or LAWR II: Pretrial Advocacy (2) and LAWR II: Research (1)
  • LAWR III (2)
  • Legal Profession (2 or 3) or Legal Profession Seminar (3)
  • Property (4)
  • Torts (4)

For those who entered between fall semester 2000 and fall semester 2001:

  • Civil Procedure I (3) and II (2)
  • Constitutional Law I (3) and II (2)
  • Contracts I (2) and II (3)
  • Criminal Law (3) Introduction to Appellate Advocacy (1)
  • Legal Method-Process (usually combined with a traditional, required course) (2)
  • Legal Profession (3)
  • Property I (2) and II (3)
  • Torts I (2) and II (3)

For those who entered prior to fall semester 2000:

  • Civil Procedure I (3) and II (2)
  • Constitutional Law I (3) and II (2)
  • Contracts I (2) and II (3)
  • Criminal Law (3)
  • Criminal Procedure (2)
  • Introduction to Appellate Advocacy (1)
  • Legal Method-Process (usually combined with a traditional, required course) (2)
  • Legal Profession (3)
  • Property I (2) and II (3)
  • Torts I (2) and II (3)

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