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Cum Laude
: Students in top 25 percent in each division but below the standard for Magna
Cum Laude.
For the purposes of determining honors, the January and May graduates of the same calendar year
will be considered the graduating class. Honor determinations for September graduates will be
based on the honor determinations made in the preceding May of the same calendar year.
F.
Academic Integrity
1.
Any violation of academic integrity shall be viewed as a serious infraction of the Rules and
Regulations of the Law School. Violations of academic integrity shall include, but are not
limited to, dishonesty in the examination process and plagiarism in written work.
Plagiarism is the representation of the language, ideas or format of another as one’s own
in any writing submitted for academic purposes.
2.
Use of the work of another without proper attribution constitutes plagiarism whether or not
the writer acts with intent to mislead or deceive. However, such intent, or the lack of it,
may be considered in determining the proper sanction if a violation is established.
3.
It is not permissible to paraphrase more than a few words of the work of another. Any idea
which is paraphrased from the work of another must be properly acknowledged. It is
impermissible to use quotations from sources, even with acknowledgment, unless the
material quoted is properly identified in the text (e.g. by quotation marks, in a block quote,
etc.), attributed, and cited including the specific page(s) where the quoted material may be
found.
4.
It is also impermissible to copy substantial parts of the sentence structure, paragraph
structure, or organizational format of the work of another, even if some words or ideas are
changed from the original. Such borrowing is impermissible even if citations to the source
are included in the text. A general citation of a source, without quotation, is not sufficient
to acknowledge the borrowing of the words or intellectual structure of another’s work.
Such citations indicate that the source supports the idea in the citing text, not that the words
or structure of the cited work are used. Quotations must be given verbatim and indented or
placed in quotation marks.
5.
Other than as provided in Rule I. H. 1. f. or as allowed under Academic Concentration
rules, no student may submit the same written work, or substantially the same paper, in
satisfaction of more than one academic requirement. If, in unusual circumstances, a student
is authorized to submit the same work, or parts of the same work, in satisfaction of more
than one requirement, written consent of all persons to whom the work is to be submitted
must be obtained in advance, and retained by the student and all persons to whom the
writing is submitted. It is permissible, with the consent of the professor, to use a paper
submitted for course credit to satisfy the writing requirement as well.