Students matriculating in fall 2016 or later are required to earn a minimum of 83 credits and the below requirements.
First Year Required Courses (28 credits):
- 1003-Civil Dispute Resolution (4 credits)
- 1004-Torts: The Common Law Process (4 credits)
- 1005-Criminal Law: Statutory Interpretation (3 credits)
- 1006-Contracts: Transactional Law (4 credits)
- 1651-Property: Jurisprudential and Comparative Analysis (4 credits)
- 2410-Constitutional Law–Powers (3 credits)
- 1415-Lawyering: Advice and Persuasion (6 credits)
Upper Division Requirements:
- 3200-Professional Responsibility (2 or 3 credits)
- 9550/9551/9555/9556-Advocacy (3 credits)
- 4575-Negotiation (3 credits) OR 9014-Transactions and Settlements (3 credits)
- 2421-Liberties: Advanced Legal Reasoning (3 credits)
- Upper Level Advanced Research and Writing (fulfilled through various courses, seminars, clinics, journals/law review, or independent study/research). A list of long paper courses is found here.
No more than 19 credits under the 83 credit requirement can be applied toward graduation from non-classroom courses:
- field placements (including externships but not clinics)
- moot court or other competitions
- Law Review or Journal
- independent studies
- course exchanges
- dual-degree courses
- any course for credit that is substantially based upon time expended outside a regularly scheduled class time at MHSL or another ABA-accredited law school
Academic requirement information can be found in the Student Handbook.
Students matriculating in spring or fall 2015 are required to earn a minimum of 83 credits and the below requirements. *
First Year Required Courses (28 credits):
- 1003-Civil Dispute Resolution (4 credits)
- 1004-Torts: The Common Law Process (4 credits)
- 1005-Criminal Law: Statutory Interpretation (3 credits)
- 1006-Contracts: Transactional Law (4 credits)
- 1651-Property: Jurisprudential and Comparative Analysis (4 credits)
- 2421-Liberties: Advanced Legal Reasoning (3 credits)
- 1415-Lawyering: Advice and Persuasion (6 credits)
Upper Division Requirements:
- 3200-Professional Responsibility (2 or 3 credits)
- 9550/9551/9555/9556-Advocacy (3 credits) – satisfies 3 credits of Experiential Courses
- 2410-Constitutional Law–Powers (2 or 3 credits)
- 6 credits in Experiential Courses
- Upper Level Advanced Research and Writing (fulfilled through various courses, seminars, clinics, journals/law review, or independent study/research). A list of long paper courses is found here.
No more than 19 credits under the 83 credit requirement can be applied toward graduation from non-classroom courses:
- field placements (including externships)
- moot court or other competitions
- Law Review or Journal
- independent studies
- course exchanges
- dual-degree courses
- any course for credit that is substantially based upon time expended outside a regularly scheduled class time at MHSL or another ABA-accredited law school
* Students matriculating fall 2014 or earlier are required to earn a minimum of 86 credits plus the requirements listed above.