Registration Guide 2017-2018

Directed Study

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To undertake supervised research, a student must first identify a faculty member willing to

supervise the project. After agreeing upon a topic, the student and the faculty supervisor both

sign a form describing the topic and agreeing to fulfill the requirements of this option. This

form is available from the Office of Academic Services and the completed form must also be

filed with that office. Each Directed Study is considered a new course requiring a unique course

number for which we need to register you.

You should expect to devote a minimum of 90 hours to the project. A time log of hours worked

must be submitted at the end of the term. The student must submit an outline and complete draft

to the faculty supervisor for review and comment, prior to the submission of the completed

paper. The final paper must be submitted to the faculty supervisor by the date set in the

approved proposal, which may be no later than the end of the examination period for the

semester in which the paper is completed. The faculty supervisor will grade the paper on a

Credit/No Credit basis. Although the student is awarded two credits for completion of the

project, the grade is not included in the calculation of the student's grade point average.

You may also submit the paper to the faculty supervisor for satisfaction of the law school's legal

writing requirement. All written work must be completed in accordance with the provisions of

the law school's

A student may not receive more than two units of credit in any semester for non-classroom

ungraded activities, as opposed to regular course work. Non-classroom ungraded activities

which count toward the two-credit-per-semester limit include directed study; law journal

work (including

Law Review, Transnational Law Review, Journal of Health & Biomedical Law

Journal of High Technology Law

); Moot Court, including Moot Court teams and

Journal of

Trial and Appellate Advocacy;

research assistantships; and concentration thesis credits.