JD Blended Schedule
Blended students matriculating in 2025 and later are auto-enrolled in the following courses during their first and second years:
Year 1 (11 credits per semester)
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| LARC I (3 cr.) | LARC II (3 cr.) |
| Criminal Law (3 cr.) * | Property (4 cr.) |
| Torts (4 cr.) | Contracts (4 cr.) |
| Legal Methods (1 cr.) |
Year 2 (11 credits in fall, 9 credits in spring)
| Semester 3 | Semester 4 |
| Foundations of Practice (1 cr.) | Constitutional Criminal Procedure (3 cr.) * |
| Constitutional Powers (3 cr.) | Constitutional Liberties (3 cr.) |
| Civil Dispute Resolution (4 cr.) | Evidence (3 cr.) * |
| Professional Responsibility (3 cr.) * | Students may additionally enroll in an elective course to maintain 11 cr. |
* Course may be dropped and taken in the summer instead.
JD Course Requirements
Beyond all semester 1-4 auto-enrolled courses (above), students need to meet additional course requirements to complete the J.D.:
- Foundations of Advocacy (3 cr.)
- Transactions & Settlements or Negotiation (3 cr.):
- Students may take both, but at least one needs to be on their transcript.
- Transactions & Settlements is offered in the spring semester as a Blended course. Negotiation is offered year-round in multiple modalities.
- Long Paper, which can be completed in several ways:
- Seminars: courses specifically set up to guide the student through completion of the long paper.
- Other ARW courses, e.g., Arbitration with Long paper.
- Journals and other publications.
- Independent Long Paper:
- Only for circumstances where a student cannot write on their desired topic in one of the long paper courses.
- Requires a professor to agree to supervise the research and writing of the paper.
- Can be written only in a student’s final two semesters.
For students who are on academic support programming (the student’s cumulative GPA was below a 3.0 at the end of their first year), there are additional requirements:
- Evidence: Blended students are auto-enrolled in this class in their 4th semester.
- Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Blended students are auto-enrolled in this course in their 4th semester.
- Bar Strategies MBE/MEE or Bar Strategies NextGen: offered only in the spring. Students should plan to take this course in their final spring semester.
- Bar Strategies MPT: offered only in the fall. Students should plan to take this course in their final fall semester.
A full list of the JD requirements can be found here.
General Schedule Rules
First Year
- First-year courses are auto-enrolled, and students cannot add any classes to their schedule.
- Blended students in their first semester may choose to drop Criminal Law for a reduced course load, which can be taken in the summer. Students interested in this path should speak with their academic advisor.
Second Year
- Second-year courses are auto-enrolled, but students may make changes to their schedule:
- Students may add courses to their second-year schedule to go full time. No formal notice is required to go full time. Students simply need to enroll in the desired courses.
- Students may also choose to reduce their course load by dropping one of the courses that are available to take in the summer:
- 3rd semester: Professional Responsibility.
- 4th semester: Constitutional Criminal Procedure and/or Evidence.
Semesters 5+
Beginning in the 5th semester, students are no longer auto-enrolled in courses and will register for classes themselves. Students will generally select a combination of Blended and distance courses, though a fully remote semester is possible if the student has plans to earn enough in-person and/or out-of-classroom credits in order to not exceed the distance credit limit. Students can work with their academic advisor to plan for meeting credit requirements.
Blended courses follow an A, A1, B, B1, and B2 schedule (see the Semesters 5 – 8 Capstone schedule).
Summer and J-Term
- Summer courses can be taken as early as the first year.
- Students may not take classes in the J-Term of their first year.