Suffolk University Law - New Student Information Guide 2017

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

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)

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