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be enrolled in only one such concentration at any time but may change enrollment to another
concentration. The Law School Assistant Dean for Academic Services shall forward a copy of
each such notice to the appropriate concentration Faculty Concentration Director.
E.
Completion of Requirements and Review of Student Record
Students pursuing concentrations will be responsible for ensuring that they have satisfied the
requirements of their chosen academic concentrations. Upon completing the requirements of an
academic concentration, a participating student shall submit to the Law School Assistant Dean for
Academic Services a Notice of Concentration Completion specifying the courses taken, other
programs completed in fulfillment of the concentration requirements, and how the student satisfied
the concentration’s writing requirement. The Law School Assistant Dean for Academic Services’s
only obligation will be to notify students of the need to submit the Notice of Concentration
Completion and to verify information presented in those notices. The appropriate Concentration
Faculty Director will determine in conjunction with the Law School Assistant Dean for Academic
Services whether students submitting Notices of Concentration Completion have satisfied the
requirements necessary to earn an academic concentration.
F.
Graduation
1.
Certificate
. Upon graduation, each student who has completed all requirements for his or
her academic concentration shall receive a certificate issued by the Law School indicating
that the student has completed a concentration.
2.
Certificate with Distinction.
Concentration students who have either completed a thesis
approved by a concentration Faculty Director or attained upon graduation a cumulative
3.500 average in all concentration courses shall receive a certificate indicating the student
has completed the concentration with distinction.
3.
Transcripts
. Any academic transcript issued for a concentration graduate shall have a
notation indicating that the student has completed his or her concentration, and, as
applicable, whether a student has completed his or her concentration with distinction. An
explanation of the nature of the concentration completed shall be attached to the transcript.
A student may receive a certificate and transcript notation in only one academic concentration.
The certificates and transcript notations will make clear that these are academic concentrations,
not practice specialties.
G.
Concentration Directors
For each academic concentration designated by the Law Faculty, the Dean shall appoint a resident
faculty member or members who shall serve as the concentration faculty director(s). The
concentration Faculty Director(s) shall on an annual basis recommend to the Curriculum
Committee for consideration by that committee and the Law School Faculty what courses or