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FIRST YEAR J.D. PROGRAM OF STUDY
During the first year, students are enrolled in either the “A” or the “B” curriculum. All students in the “A” curriculum begin their legal studies with nine courses, including a 3 credit elective in the Spring semester chosen from a group of “perspective” courses on administrative, international or transnational legal issues. Full-time students enrolled in the “A” curriculum take all nine courses during their first year. In their first year, students in the part-time program take Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law I: The Federal System, Contracts, Legal Research and Writing, Property, Torts, and Week One: Law in a Global Context (a one-week, intensive study of a complex problem of international law, taken in the first week of the Spring semester). During their second year, part-time students take Criminal Justice and the “perspective” course, along with other elective courses. First-year students in the full-time program register for the “perspective” elective during the Fall semester. Part time students register for the “perspective” elective during the course registration period in April of their first year.
The “B” curriculum, available in 2007-2008 to one section of full time students, requires eight courses different in emphasis from those in the “A” curriculum: Bargain, Exchange and Liability; Democracy and Coercion; Government Processes; Legal Justice Seminar; Legal Practice: Writing and Analysis; Legal Process and Society; Property in Time, and Week One: Law in a Global Context. The “B” section emphasizes the sources of law in history, philosophy, political theory, and economics. It also seeks to reflect the increasingly public nature of contemporary law.
Curriculum "A" Courses
Civil Procedure, 4 credits
Constitutional Law I: The Federal System, 3 credits
Contracts, 4 credits
Criminal Justice, 4 credits
Legal Research and Writing, 4 credits
Property, 4 credits
Torts, 4 credits
Perspective Elective, 3 credits
Week One: Law in a Global Context, 1 credit
Curriculum "A" Electives (2006-2007)
(3 credits each)
Comparative Law
Government & Process
International Law I: Introduction to International Law
Lawmaking: Introduction to Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
Transnational Law
Curriculum "B" Courses
Bargain, Exchange, and Liability, 6 credits
Democracy and Coercion, 4 credits
Government Processes, 4 credits
Legal Justice Seminar, 3 credits
Legal Practice: Writing and Analysis, 4 credits
Legal Process and Society, 5 credits
Property In Time, 5 credits
Week One: Law in a Global Context, 1 credit
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