Registration for Spring Semester 2011 will begin on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at 8:00 a.m. for current 3L students and Wednesday, November 10, at 8:00 a.m. for current 2L students.
Reminder: Spring semester courses begin Friday, January 14.
Important Links:
Course Schedules and Descriptions (View in Classfinder)
· Spring 2011 Elective Courses
IMPORTANT UPDATES
· 11/4/2010 – Note change in time for the Friday class meeting of Criminal Practice, to F 1:30-3:25 p.m. The Friday class will have some flexibility; it may not meet every week or meet the full 2 hours scheduled every week. This is why the course is on the schedule for five potential hours a week (T, Th, and F) although it is for 4 credits. Contact Professor Osler with any questions.
Graduation Requirements
Required Credits and Courses for Graduation
· 2L students: remember you must take Professional Responsibility and Lawyering Skills III this year, if you have not already done so.
· 3L students: carefully review your number of credits and your required courses, including the upper-level writing requirement, to be sure you will satisfy all graduation requirements.
· NOTE: You will be automatically registered for the same section of the required Mentor Externship Program Seminar as you were in Fall 2010, meeting the same day and time as in the fall. The seminar counts as 1 credit for the spring semester (0 in the fall).
Course Load and Residency Requirements:
· See Policy III-A-2 for the maximum and minimum number of credits for which you may register, and for the residency requirements for graduation.
· REMEMBER: The required Mentor Externship course (1 credit per year) is now registered as 0 credits in the fall and 1 credit in the spring. Mentor Externship therefore will count 1 credit toward your course load this spring.
New Courses in Spring 2011:
· Community Banking Practicum (Weber)
· Criminal Practice (Osler)
· Ethical Leadership in Social Justice (Shea, Hon. Wilhelmina Wright)
· Intellectual Property Litigation (Dragseth, Richardson)
New Adjunct Faculty in Spring 2011 (links to online bios):
· Norm Baer (Anthony, Ostlund, Baer): Evidence
· John Dragseth and Richard Anderson (Fish & Richardson): Intellectual Property Litigation
· Duncan McCampbell: Business Planning (Spring 2011)
· Katie Roek (Lindquist & Vennum) and Betsy Schmiesing (Faegre & Benson): Environmental Law
· Pat Weber (Winthrop & Weinstine): Community Banking Practicum
· Hon. Wilhelmina Wright (MN Court of Appeals): Ethical Leadership in Social Justice
· Experienced adjunct faculty not listed in Classfinder include: Wright Walling (Walling, Berg, and Debele), Adoption Law; and Erin Wacker and Rachel Sibley (Chrysalis Center for Women), Domestic Violence
Miscellaneous Information about Courses:
· Crime and Punishment will be offered to UST students and students at the University of Arizona School of Law, through interactive video. There is a special application process, to Professor Shea; see description and instructions below under “Courses with Special Enrollment Procedures.”
Note that the first class meeting will be January 12, two days before spring classes begin.
· Corporate Finance and Secured Transactions have supplemental course descriptions, written by the spring instructors. Read them to get the best understanding of the content of these courses.
REMINDER: Subject-Area Pages on the UST Law Website
To help you in course planning for your legal-practice interest, and to link you to UST Law faculty and other resources for particular subject areas and practice areas, visit the pages on the website in the “Academics” section. The pages are in the areas of:
· Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Courses Eligible to Satisfy Upper Level Writing Requirement:
The Policy Manual includes more information about the Upper-Level Writing requirement.
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· Adoption Law (Walling) · Bioethics (Collett) · Comparative Constitutional Law (Gordon) · Complex Litigation (Mengler) · Great Books (Reid and Naughton; one week, early Jan.) · Islam and Civil Liberties in Europe (Kahn) · Law and Finance in Emerging Markets (Esimai) · Native American Law (Taylor) |
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 Spring 2011 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 Spring 2011 if you are particularly interested in it.
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· Adoption Law · Bioethics · Consumer Law · Canon Law: Basic · Comparative Constitutional Law · Complex Litigation · Domestic Violence · Ethical Leadership-Social Justice · International Human Rights · Islam & Civil Liberties in Europe · Labor Law · Native American Law · Remedies |
Courses with Special Enrollment Procedures:
The following courses have special registration materials or procedures. You will not be able to register for them online.
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Bankruptcy Clinic |
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Business Externship |
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Crime and Punishment |
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Interscholastic Moot Court and other Student Competition Teams |
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Legal Analysis Review |
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Legal Services Clinic courses |
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Public Interest Externship |
Applications closed |
Courses Outside of UST Law:
Law school policies permit you to receive credits for such courses, but limit the number of credits permitted. Read these policies carefully, and contact Jill Akervik or Dean Berg with questions.
Prerequisites:
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.
Intensive Course the Week Before Regular Classes:
Great Books (instructors Charles Reid and Michael Naughton) will be offered January 2-7, several days before Spring 2011 classes begin. You may enroll in it through Murphy Online as a Spring 2011 course, and it counts as a Spring course for purposes of residency and course-load requirements and financial aid.
Wait Lists:
To prevent overcrowding of wait lists, each student will be allowed to place himself/herself on a wait list for only two courses that have otherwise closed; if you place yourself on more, you will be removed from them. You cannot move yourself from a waitlist into a course. If a spot opens up in a course, Jill Akervik will contact you by e-mail and you will have 24 hours to respond before she offers the spot to the next person on the list.
Limits on Student Employment:
During any semester in which you are enrolled as a full-time student, you may not engage in employment for more than 20 hours per week. See Policy III-D-2. Do not arrange your schedule with the expectation of working more than that number. This limitation is required by the American Bar Association, which has recently reemphasized it in reaccrediting UST Law. We expect that you will abide by the limit. It is also enforced through course attendance policies under which there are grading penalties for excessive absences.
Course Cancellations:
If enrollment in any course following completion of registration is so low that offering the course is not justified, we may cancel the course. We will inform each of the students who had registered for the course that it has been cancelled and will offer them an opportunity to enroll in any course for which enrollment limits have not been satisfied.
