University of St. Thomas

IMPORTANT UPDATES:

• Correction to Class Finder:  Securities Regulation (LAW 854) and Trial Advocacy (LAW 906, both section 001 (regular) and section 002 (intensive, with Judge Ericksen)) are each 3-credit courses (not 0 as listed in Class Finder).
• Re. Professor Nichols’s International and Comparative Family Law class (LAW 774):  Murphy Online enrollment will close at 12 students, but Professor Nichols will take a few more students off the waitlist based on interest and background to reach the full enrollment of 16.
• Please note that the faculty has reduced the Evidence course from 4 credits to 3, beginning Fall 2010.  It remains a required course.  This will have no effect other than the number of credits in the course: for example, the total number of credits to graduate remains the same (88).  Students who already have taken Evidence will simply have taken 4 credits; students who take it in the future will take 3.  (The fall Evidence course will meet Tuesday and Thursday 4:30 p.m. to 5:55 p.m.)    
   

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Course Schedules and Descriptions (View in Classfinder)

• Fall 2010 Upper Level Electives
• Summer 2010 Registration Information
• Spring 2011: List of Courses and Instructors (Provisional)

Graduation Requirements

Required Credits and Courses for Graduation

·      Rising 2L students (current 1Ls): remember you must take Professional Responsibility and Lawyering Skills III this year.

·      NOTE:  You must register for one of the 2L or 3L sections of the required Mentor Externship Program Seminar.  There are 10 sections of the 2L seminar (Mentor Externship I, LAW 930) and 9 sections of the 3L seminar (Mentor Externship II, LAW 933).  You will continue in the same section in the spring semester, meeting the same day of the week and time in the spring.  The seminar counts as 1 credit for the year, calculated as 0 credit in the fall and 1 credit in the spring.  Please note that although the fall semester has 0 credits assigned, you must still pass that semester to successfully complete the year.

 Course Load and Residency Requirements:

·         See Policy III-A-2 for the maximum and minimum number if credits for which you may register, and for the residency requirements for graduation

·         Please note:  The required Mentor Externship course (1 credit per year) will now be registered as 0 credits in the fall and 1 credit in the spring.  Mentor Externship therefore will not count toward your course load in the fall, and will count a full credit in the spring.

New Courses in 2010-2011 (incl. courses not offered for some time):

Fall 2010

·         First Amendment: Free Expression (Paulsen)

·         International Business Transactions (Larson)

·         International and Comparative Family Law (Nichols)

·         Western Legal History of Marriage (Reid)

Spring 2011

·         Business Planning (Vargas)

·         Criminal Practice and Procedure  (Osler)

·         Ethical Leadership in Social Justice (Shea/Hon. Wilhelmina Wright)

New (or Newly Returning) Full-Time Faculty in 2010-11 (links to online bios):

·         Rene Bowser, Professor of Law:  Race and the Law, Health Law (Fall 2010), Criminal Law (Spring 2011) 

·         Thomas Joyce, Visiting Professor from Practice: Business Associations (Fall 2010), Corporate Finance (Spring 2011) 

·         Mark Osler, Professor of Law:  Sentencing Law (Fall 2010), Criminal Law (Spring 2011). Criminal Practice and Procedure (Spring 2011)   

New Adjunct Faculty in 2010-11 (links to online bios):

·         Norm Baer: Evidence (Spring 2011) 

·        Tim Gephart: Legal Malpractice (Fall 2010)  

·         Kent Larson: International Business Transactions (Fall 2010)  

·         Greg Merz: Civil Pretrial Litigation (Fall 2010)

·         Sara Sommarstrom: Public Interest Externship (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011- See application below) 

·         Frank Vargas: Business Planning (Spring 2011) 

·         Business and Corporate Law 

·         Criminal Law

·         General Practice

·         Global and Comparative Law

·         Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

·         Public Interest Law 

 The Policy Manual includes more information about the Upper-Level Writing requirement.

 Some professors in other courses may also allow you to expand a paper to satisfy the writing requirement; check with individual professors.  In addition, the requirement may be satisfied through Supervised Research and Writing, which is governed by Policy III-B-4.  Please read and follow it carefully.  Note that you must have the supervising faculty member's permission before registering for Supervised Research.  Supervised Research Registration Approval Form. (Return to Jill Akervik)

Courses Offered in 2010-11 that are Unlikely to be Offered in 2011-12: 

Elective courses are offered yearly or in alternate years according to student demand, faculty availability, and other factors.  We cannot guarantee that any course will be offered in a given year; but for your planning, the following courses are particularly unlikely to be offered in 2011-12, so consider taking a course on this list in Fall 2010 or Spring 2011 if you are particularly interested in it.

Courses with Special Enrollment Procedures:  

The following courses have special registration materials or procedures.  You will not be able to register for them online.  

Please pay attention to prerequisites (marked with Xs in Class Finder).  If you register for a course without having completed the prerequisite(s), you will be dropped.  Note that required upper-level courses (Business Associations, Evidence, Professional Responsibility) are prerequisites for a number of elective courses and externships.