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i.
Any student with a grade point average for the first year, ranging from 2.50 to
below 2.67;
or
ii.
Any student who has at least two unsatisfactory grades for that academic year,
regardless of the student’s grade point average.
Students who are placed on Academic Warning must enroll in, and earn a
satisfactory grade in, the following courses:
1.
Legal Analysis & Methods (must be taken no later than the fall semester of
the student's second year)
2.
Evidence
3.
Trusts and Estates
4.
Corporations or LLC, Partnership & Agency
5.
Commercial Law Survey, Commercial Paper, Commercial Sales, or Secured
Transactions
6.
Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure
7.
Massachusetts Practice, if the student intends to take the Massachusetts bar
examination
8.
Fundamentals of Law (must be taken in the student’s final semester)
With the exception of Legal Analysis & Methods (which must be taken no later
than the fall semester of the second year) and Fundamentals of Law (which must
be taken in the student’s final semester), these courses may be taken at any time
prior to graduation and they serve as a substitute for the Base Menu requirements
that are applicable to students who are not on Academic Warning.
Students who receive an unsatisfactory grade in the above courses must
participate in the Academic Support Program and are required to repeat the course
in which the unsatisfactory grade was received.
Course Guidance and Curriculum Review. Students are strongly urged to take
advanced courses that serve to reinforce first-year courses in which they received
unsatisfactory grades. Such courses may include advanced legal writing courses
and such other courses as may be designated as appropriate by the Law Faculty.
Students are also strongly urged to take all of the bar exam preparation
opportunities, offered at the law school.
Students on Academic Warning remain subject to all other graduation
requirements.
The Academic Warning designation is not subject to appeal.