Suffolk Law - 2018 New Student Information Guide

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. All students must complete at least 3 of the Base Menu subjects list, except for those students on Academic Warning or subject to the Guided Curriculum program who should follow the requirements listed in Guided Curriculum or Academic Warning. a. Administrative/Regulatory (Administrative Law, Antitrust Law, Banking Law, Environmental Law, Environmental Law Survey, Labor Law, Securities Regulation, Energy, Natural Resources)

b. Business Entity Fundamentals

c. Basic Income Tax

d. Commercial Law (Commercial Law Survey, Commercial Law Sales and Leases, Commercial Paper, Secured Transactions)

e. Evidence

5. Guided Curriculum : Any student who completes their first year with a cumulative GPA of 2.670 or higher but less than 3.000 in the first year must complete all of the following courses in order to be eligible to graduate:

a. Evidence;

b. Trusts and Estates;

c. Business Entity Fundamentals (formerly Corporations);

d. Commercial Law Survey, Commercial Paper, Commercial Sales, or Secured Transactions;

e. Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure;

f.

Family Law

g. Advanced Survey of Core Legal Principles (must be taken in the student’s final year)

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

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