Juris Doctor Degree

Full-Time Program

The first-year program is required. The curriculum for the second and third year in the full-time program is elective, except that in the second year students must take Constitutional Law I and Constitutional Law II.

To be eligible for the J.D. degree, students in the full-time program must:

• Complete at least 87 credits.
• Satisfy residency requirements.
• Pass all first-year courses.
• Pass Constitutional Law I and Constitutional Law II, required second-year courses.
• Pass Lawyers' Ethics or Ethics and Economics of Law Practice in either the second or third year.
• Successfully complete the two upper-class writing requirements.
• Satisfy the skills requirement. (Applies to J.D. students matriculating in Fall 2006, excluding transfer students, or later.)
• Achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average.
  • For students entering prior to Fall 2007 – 2.0.
  • For students entering in Fall 2007 or later – 2.2.

Full-Time Program Required Course Schedule – 1st Year

Fall		Spring
Course	Credits	Course	Credits
Contracts I	3	Contracts II	3
Torts	4	Property	4
Civil Procedure I	3	Civil Procedure II	2
Legal Research & Writing	2	Appellate Advocacy	2
Criminal Law	3	Transnational Law	3
TOTAL	15	TOTAL	14

Other required courses must be taken as follows:

Second Year
Fall: Constitutional Law I (3 cr.)
Spring: Constitutional Law II (3 cr.)