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C. Procedure and Requirements for All Reapplications
All petitions for readmission must be submitted through the law school's Office of Admissions
and must be accompanied by a completed readmission application form, available from the
Office of Admissions. All petitioners for readmission must submit a Character and Fitness
disclosure form with their readmission application. All petitioners must also have a valid score
from an LSAT exam taken within five years of the date of desired readmission. Petitioners with
LSAT scores older than five years must, in addition to submitting a petition as required above,
retake the LSAT and submit an application through the LSAC in order to be considered for
readmission.
A petitioner is entitled to an interview with a designee of the Academic Standing Committee. The
interview must be requested in the petition. All petitions and any accompanying materials must be
received by the Office of Admissions by the appropriate date as set forth in Paragraph B (Time
Restrictions). Petitions that are not submitted by said deadline will not be considered..
D. Limit on Reapplication
If a student, previously dismissed for an academic, administrative or disciplinary reason, is denied
readmission by the Academic Standing Committee or the Faculty (in the case of a dismissal for
disciplinary reasons), the denial is final and unappealable. A subsequent petition for readmission
may not be submitted within five years of the denial of the previous petition.
VII. DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS
A.
Juris Doctor/Master of Public Administration
A candidate for the JD/MPA program must meet the admission criteria for both the MPA, as
determined by the Sawyer School of Management, and the JD as determined by the Law School.
No student will be considered for admission to the School of Management until the Law School
Admissions Committee has acted favorably.
The curriculum requirements for the JD/MPA program are controlled by the respective schools.
The JD/MPA degrees will be granted upon completion of 110 semester hours of work. Of this
number, 80 semester hours must be completed in the Law School and 30 in the MPA program.
Eighteen semester hours of electives are also required. At least nine semester hours must be taken
in the Law School. The remaining nine hours may be completed in either the Law School or MPA
program.
Course requirements for the JD/MPA program may be obtained from the Law School’s web-site.