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  The School of Law - Newark 2007-2009 The Law Program Curriculum Required Part-Time Evening Curriculum  

Required Part-Time Evening Curriculum


First Semester Credits
Contracts
4
Torts
4


Second Semester

Civil Procedure
4
Criminal Law
3
Legal Research and Writing I 1


Summer Semester

Legal Research and Writing II 2


Third Semester

Constitutional Law

4
Property 4


Fourth Semester
Required elective 3
Electives* 5-8

 
* 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.

 
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