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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.
Administrative/Regulatory
Business Entity Fundamentals
Basic Income Tax
Commercial Law
Evidence
5.
Guided Curriculum:
Any student who completed their first-year
prior to the 2016-2017
academic year with a cumulative GPA of 2.670 or higher but less than 3.000 in the first year
must take Advanced Survey of Core Legal Principles in the student’s final semester.
Any student who completes their first year
during the 2016-2017
academic year or later 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 (the Family Law requirement does not apply to students graduating in or
before September 2017 and students graduating in January 2018 may request a waiver
of this requirement)
g.
Massachusetts Practice (if the student intends to take the Massachusetts bar
examination in July 2017 or February 2018); and
h.
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]
6. Students placed on
Academic Warning
must complete the following courses:
1. Legal Analysis & Methods (must be taken no later than the fall semester of the