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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
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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 5 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 Law
Business Entity Fundamentals
Basic Income Tax
Commercial Law
Evidence
5.
Guided Curriculum:
Any student who completes their first year
during the 2016-2017
academic year or later with a cumulative GPA of 2.67 or higher but less than 3.00 must
complete all of the following courses in order to be eligible to graduate:
Evidence;
Trusts and Estates;
Business Entity Fundamentals (formerly Corporations);
Commercial Law Survey, or Commercial Paper, or Commercial Sales, or Secured
Transactions;
Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure;
Family Law; and
Advanced Survey of Core Legal Principles (should be taken in the student’s final
semester).
[Revision to Rule I. A. 5. approved by law faculty on 5/19/16]
6.
Students placed on
Academic Warning
must complete the following courses:
Legal Analysis & Methods (must be taken no later than the fall semester of the student's second
year)