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student's second year)
2. Evidence
3. Trusts and Estates
4. Business Entity Fundamentals (formerly Corporations)
5. Commercial Law Survey, Commercial Paper, Commercial Sales, or Secured
Transactions
6. Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure
7. 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)
8. Massachusetts Practice, if the student intends to take the Massachusetts bar
examination in July 2017 or February 2018
9. 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 on Academic Warning remain subject to all other graduation requirements.
7. All students must complete six credits of upper-level experiential courses *. Students who
began prior to Fall 2015 must complete one Skills course.
8. All students must complete two continuing legal education seminars. Students must submit
certification of completion to the Academic Services Office*.
9. All students must complete a minimum of 50 hours of practice-based learning* completed
through any of the following ways: (i) a clinic; (ii) externship for credit; (iii) First Year Summer
Externship Program placement; (iv) 50 hours of legal work completed through the Pro Bono
Program; or (v) 50 hours of legal work completed under the supervision of an attorney. Students
must submit certification of completion to the Academic Services Office.
Part-time students in
the Evening Division are exempt from this requirement, but are encouraged to complete it.*
10. All students must complete the legal writing requirement no later than the fall semester of
their final year.
11. All students are required to take a Diagnostic Exam and Review Lecture covering bar-
related subjects that were taught during their first year of studies (or first two years for evening
students). Students scheduled to graduate before 2020 will be required to take the exam during
designated periods in their final year of study. Students scheduled to graduate in 2020 or later
will be required to take the exam during designated periods in the fall in their final year of study
if enrolled in the day division or the fall of their third year of study if enrolled in the evening
division.
*students who entered in Fall 2015 and thereafter