2019-2020 Registration Guide

Concentrations Several academic concentrations enhance the curriculum at Suffolk University Law School, offering law students an opportunity to obtain advanced training in a substantive field. The Law School was one of the first schools in the country to develop academic concentrations and it continues to be innovative in its commitment to inclusion of the concentrations in its legal education program. Suffolk's academic concentrations were created and approved by the faculty to complement and build upon the Law School's broad and basic legal curriculum. Students enrolled in the concentrations sharpen their legal reasoning skills by pursuing a cumulative program of specialized courses. The concentrations provide students planning to enter a particular area of the law with the opportunity to focus their academic preparation and potentially enhance their legal careers. Business Law and Financial Services Health and Biomedical Law Intellectual Property International Law Legal Technology and Innovation Trial and Appellate Advocacy All concentrations at Suffolk have an open admissions policy. Any interested students are welcome and encouraged to enroll. Students who wish to enroll in a concentration should file an Academic Concentration Notice of Enrollment form with the Office of Academic Services. Participation in a concentration is only noted on a student's Law School transcript if the student is able to satisfy the concentration's requirements by the time of graduation. No adverse notation is made on a graduating student's Law School transcript if the student opts not to complete the concentration or does not meet the concentration's requirements. Students who opt to concentrate must demonstrate legal writing competency in their area of concentration. Concentrators may either choose to write a Thesis on a concentration-related topic, under the supervision of a full-time faculty member, or to satisfy the Law School's legal writing requirement in connection with an approved concentration course. Those students who opt to write a Thesis should file a Concentration Thesis Registration form with the Assistant Dean for Academic Services once they have determined their topic and faculty advisor. Concentration students who opt to fulfill their Concentration's legal writing requirement in an approved Concentration Course must file a Legal Writing Requirement form with the Assistant Dean for Academic Services.