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First Semester
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Credits
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Contracts
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4
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Torts
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4
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Second Semester
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Civil Procedure
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4
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Criminal Law
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3
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Legal Research and Writing I
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1
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Summer Semester
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Legal Research and Writing II
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2
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Third Semester
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Constitutional Law
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4
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Property
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4
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Fourth Semester
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Required elective
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3
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Electives*
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5-8
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*
Each student is required to elect a 3- or 4-credit course from a list
of "required" electives that is published each year with the registration materials.
The elective courses must deal with one of the following topics:
administration of a complex statute, public law, perspectives on legal
process (e.g., legal history, jurisprudence, economic analysis of law),
or perspectives on the lawyering process (e.g., legal profession). Some
of these courses are limited to first-year students and others are open to
second- and third-year students.
To increase individualized attention to the development of
legal skills, one fall-semester day course and one fall-semester evening course
have been designated by the faculty as "small sections." A "small
section" offers the coverage of a regular substantive course but is
limited to about 30 students. In addition, each second-semester student
must elect a "required" elective. The "required" electives offer
perspectives on law other than reading appellate cases, and typically
include such subjects as legislation, jurisprudence, and law and
humanities. The legal research and writing program offers a series of
supervised legal writing assignments; the enrollment in these sections
is approximately 8 to 10 students each.
