Before graduation, all students must satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. Students may meet the graduation writing requirement by completing a piece of work including critical analysis of a legal question and which may include professional papers such as pleadings which are the consequence of analytic work. Normally, the work will be at least 25 double-spaced typed pages and must be completed one semester prior to graduation (unless prior permission to do it during the last semester has been obtained from the associate dean for student affairs).
Some examples of ways to meet this requirement are: a) seminar papers in designated enterprises, b) publishable notes submitted to a Rutgers law journal, c) clinical program work, d) appellate advocacy coursework, e) a moot court competition appellate brief, and f) a substantial scholarly paper completed in a supervised independent study.
