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First Year
Students complete many of the required courses during the first year of law school.
Second Year
The second-year required courses are listed below.
| Constitutional Law – Liberties | Spring |
| Constitutional Law – Powers | Fall |
| Professional Responsibility | Fall/Spring/Summer |
| Property I * | Fall |
| Property II * | Spring |
*Full-time students take Property I and Property II during their first year of school.
Students who matriculated for the first time in Fall 2011 and were in section 3 have different required courses. For those students, the following applies:
| Course |
Credits |
First Year |
Post-First Year |
|
| Civil Procedure: Dispute Resolution (meets Civil Procedure Requirement) |
4 |
x |
||
| Constitutional Law Liberties |
3 |
x |
||
| Constitutional Law Powers |
2 |
x |
||
| Transactional Law: Contracts (meets Contracts requirement) |
4 |
x |
||
| Professional Responsibility |
3 |
x |
||
| Jurisprudential and Comparative Analysis: Property (meets Property I & II requirement) |
4 |
x |
||
| Torts: The Common Law Process (meets Torts I & II requirement) |
4 |
x |
||
| Writing & Representation: Advice and Persuasion |
6 |
x |
||
| Writing & Representation: Advocacy |
3 |
x |
||
| Criminal Law: Statutory Interpretation |
3 |
x |
||
| Total Required Credits |
36 |
|
Summary for Students who matriculated for the first time in Fall 2011 and were in section 3 |
|
| Required Courses | 36 |
| Skills Courses | 2 – minimum (in addition to 3 credit Advocacy) |
| Statutory Courses | 5 – minimum |
| Elective Courses | 43 (fewer than 43 if Statutory/Skills credits exceed 10) |
| Total Needed to Graduate | 86 |