J-Term 2024
As of August 1, 2021, all students, staff, and faculty (including adjuncts) will be required to be fully vaccinated or have an approved exemption on file with the dean of students, in order to come on campus.
The J-Term schedule will be published the week of September 11, 2023:
Registration for J-Term 2024 will open the same time registration for Spring 2024 opens, the week of October 23. Your personal registration day and time, based on credits earned, will be posted on the Demographics page of your Student Account at Student records login
Some things to know before registering for J-Term:
The last day to add or drop J-Term courses without penalty is December 13, 2023. After December 13, students may drop J-Term courses online or by completing a Request to Add/Withdraw Classes form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar. Students who drop after December 13-January 1 will incur a $150 per credit penalty.
Students who withdraw on or after January 2, 2024 will owe full tuition and receive a “W” on their transcript.
Students may add until December 13, online or by completing the Request to Add/Withdraw Classes form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar. Please note that the request form will not override holds, time conflicts, or credit maximums. Requests to add J-Term courses received after December 13 will not be processed. Be sure you are able to take the course before submitting the form. Students may not drop or add after the stated deadlines.
Due to ABA standards and federal credit hour regulations, students may register for no more than 3 credits in J-Term. Students who exceed these limits will be dropped from all courses.
Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83 credit requirement (43 under the 86 credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated “distance education courses.” A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306.
Spring 2024
Beginning August 1, 2021 all students, staff, and faculty (including adjuncts) will be required to be fully vaccinated or have an approved exemption on file with the dean of students, in order to come on campus.
Spring 2024 registration will begin the week of October 23.
The Spring schedule will be available beginning the week of September 11:
Your personal registration day and time based on credits earned will be posted on the Demographics page of your Student Account at Student records login.
Spring 2023 courses will be offered in the following formats:
- Blended (B): Courses are offered in a blended format—1/3 online and 2/3 in person. Students come to campus once or twice a semester (depending where they are in their program) and spend the rest of each semester off campus, completing coursework online.
- On-Campus (#): These are courses that we intend to offer entirely in person. There is no remote option. If you can’t participate in person, you cannot register for the On-Campus courses.
- HyFlex: These are courses that will have some mix of on-campus and remote participation with regular class meeting times. You can choose whether to participate in these classes entirely remotely or to participate on-campus to the extent possible. There will be two cross-listed sections, fully remote and on-campus. Register for the remote section (HR) to participate remotely, and in the in-person section (HC) to attend on-campus. Participating remotely in this option does count as distance education courses. Participating in-person in this option counts as in-person courses.
- Remote and synchronous (RS): These are synchronous courses that are fully remote (through Zoom) with regular class meeting times. Students must be able to participate in all class meetings. These courses count as distance education courses.
- Online (O): These are asynchronous, fully online courses that count as distance education courses. There are no set meeting times but there are regular assignments and optional office hours.
Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83 credit requirement (43 under the 86 credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated “distance education courses.” A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306.
Part-time 2Ls
Evening 2Ls will be pre-registered for the below classes. You may drop them and/or add additional courses when your registration time opens. Be aware that if you drop, you’ll lose your seat, and fitting in the required foundational classes later in your JD career may be difficult.
Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Interrogation
Constitutional Liberties
Evidence
Family Law Survey
Blended 2Ls will be registered for the below cohort courses. When your registration priority time opens, you may drop Evidence and/or add an elective that doesn’t conflict with your other courses. To drop other courses, contact your advisor. You’ll need to complete an Add/Withdraw form and forward with permission from your advisor to the Office of the Registrar.
Advocacy: Trial
Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Interrogation
Constitutional Liberties
Professional Responsibility
Part-time 2Ls (and others) who need to add a 1L course should select a section after the schedule is published, complete an Add/Withdraw form, and submit to the Office of the Registrar.
Holds
Check for holds before you register. You’ll want to work with the office that placed the hold to resolve it before your registration time opens. The Office of the Registrar can’t override the holds placed by other offices—be sure to contact the correct office. For billing holds, contact studentaccount@mitchellhamline.edu. For Title IX training holds, contact studentservices@mitchellhamline.edu.
If you encounter registration problems during your registration period, email registrar@mitchellhamline.edu.
If you have questions, check out our FAQ page and let us know if your question isn’t answered there.
Wait list information
If you are placed on a wait list for a course, you will receive an email when a seat becomes available. To accept the seat, you will need to do the following:
- Drop any courses, if necessary, which create a time conflict with the course you are being offered a seat in,
- If you registered for an alternate section of the course you’d like to add, you must drop the alternate section first,
- Ensure you will not be registered for more than the maximum credits allowed per semester (3 credits in the J-term, 8 credits in summer, and 15 credits in the fall or spring semester) by accepting the offered seat,
- Verify you’ve met any applicable pre-requisites,
- Accept the seat by reply to the notification email before the date and time specified in the email.
- If you fail to reply before the deadline in the email, your place on the wait list will be forfeited and the available seat will be offered to the next student on the wait list. The course will be removed from your schedule, and will no longer be visible in your My Schedule page.
Students are not automatically added from the wait list. You must affirmatively accept the seat.
Need Help Registering?
Check out our FAQ page
registrar@mitchellhamline.edu
Adding a course you’ve dropped or failed: Fill out an Add/Withdraw form. The database will read your prior enrollment as a duplicate.
If you don’t have the pre-requisite and want to take the course anyway: Contact the faculty. Only they can waive it, and it must be in writing directly to the Office of the Registrar.
Fall 2023
Fall 2023 registration will begin the week of March 13.
The Fall schedule will be available beginning the week of February 27:
Your personal registration day and time based on credits earned will be posted on the Demographics page of your Student Account at Student records login.
Fall 2023 courses will be offered in the following formats:
- Blended (B): Courses are offered in a blended format—1/3 online and 2/3 in person. Students come to campus once or twice a semester (depending where they are in their program) and spend the rest of each semester off campus, completing coursework online.
- On-Campus (#): These are courses that we intend to offer entirely in person. There is no remote option. If you can’t participate in person, you cannot register for the On-Campus courses.
- HyFlex: These are courses that will have some mix of on-campus and remote participation with regular class meeting times. You can choose whether to participate in these classes entirely remotely or to participate on-campus to the extent possible. There will be two cross-listed sections, fully remote and on-campus. Register for the remote section (HR) to participate remotely, and in the in-person section (HC) to attend on-campus. Participating remotely in this option does count as distance education courses. Participating in-person in this option counts as in-person courses.
- Remote and synchronous (RS): These are synchronous courses that are fully remote (through Zoom) with regular class meeting times. Students must be able to participate in all class meetings. These courses count as distance education courses.
- Online (O): These are asynchronous, fully online courses that count as distance education courses. There are no set meeting times but there are regular assignments and optional office hours.
Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83 credit requirement (43 under the 86 credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated “distance education courses.” A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306.
Part-time 2Ls
Evening 2Ls will be pre-registered for the below classes. You may drop them and/or add additional courses when your registration time opens. Be aware that if you drop, you’ll lose your seat, and fitting in the required foundational classes later in your JD career may be difficult.
Civil Dispute Resolution
Constitutional Powers
Professional Responsibility
For CDR: There is a remote and an in-person option. You’ll be registered in the in-person option by default. To switch to the remote section, fill out an Add/Withdraw form.
Blended 2Ls will be registered for the below cohort courses. When your registration priority time opens, you may drop Evidence and/or add an elective that doesn’t conflict with your other courses. To drop other courses, contact your advisor. You’ll need to complete an Add/Withdraw form and forward with permission from your advisor to the Office of the Registrar.
Appellate Advocacy
Civil Dispute Resolution
Constitutional Powers
Evidence
Part-time 2Ls (and others) who need to add a 1L course should select a section after the schedule is published, complete an Add/Withdraw form, and submit to the Office of the Registrar.
Holds
Check for holds before you register. You’ll want to work with the office that placed the hold to resolve it before your registration time opens. The Office of the Registrar can’t override the holds placed by other offices—be sure to contact the correct office. For billing holds, contact studentaccount@mitchellhamline.edu. For Title IX training holds, contact studentservices@mitchellhamline.edu.
If you encounter registration problems during your registration period, email registrar@mitchellhamline.edu.
If you have questions, check out our FAQ page /registrar/faq/ and let us know if your question isn’t answered there.
Wait list information
If you are placed on a wait list for a course, you will receive an email when a seat becomes available. To accept the seat, you will need to do the following:
- Drop any courses, if necessary, which create a time conflict with the course you are being offered a seat in,
- If you registered for an alternate section of the course you’d like to add, you must drop the alternate section first,
- Ensure you will not be registered for more than the maximum credits allowed per semester (3 credits in the J-term, 8 credits in summer, and 15 credits in the fall or spring semester) by accepting the offered seat,
- Verify you’ve met any applicable pre-requisites,
- Accept the seat by reply to the notification email before the date and time specified in the email.
- If you fail to reply before the deadline in the email, your place on the wait list will be forfeited and the available seat will be offered to the next student on the wait list. The course will be removed from your schedule, and will no longer be visible in your My Schedule page.
Students are not automatically added from the wait list. You must affirmatively accept the seat.
Need Help Registering?
Check out our FAQ page
registrar@mitchellhamline.edu
Adding a course you’ve dropped or failed: Fill out an Add/Withdraw form. The database will read your prior enrollment as a duplicate.
If you don’t have the pre-requisite and want to take the course anyway: Contact the faculty. Only they can waive it, and it must be in writing directly to the Office of the Registrar.
Summer 2023 Registration
Summer 2023 registration will begin the week of March 13.
The Summer schedule will be available beginning the week of February 27:
Your personal registration day and time based on credits earned will be posted on the Demographics page of your Student Account at Student records login.
Summer 2023 courses will be offered in the following formats:
- On-Campus (#): These are courses that we intend to offer entirely in person. There is no remote option. If you can’t participate in person, you cannot register for the On-Campus courses.
- HyFlex: These are courses that will have some mix of on-campus and remote participation with regular class meeting times. You can choose whether to participate in these classes entirely remotely or to participate on-campus to the extent possible. There will be two cross-listed sections, fully remote and on-campus. Register for the remote section (HR) to participate remotely, and in the in-person section (HC) to attend on-campus. Participating remotely in this option does count as distance education courses. Participating in-person in this option counts as in-person courses.
- Remote and synchronous (RS): These are synchronous courses that are fully remote (through Zoom) with regular class meeting times. Students must be able to participate in all class meetings. These courses count as distance education courses.
- Online (O): These are asynchronous, fully online courses that count as distance education courses. There are no set meeting times but there are regular assignments and optional office hours.
Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83 credit requirement (43 under the 86 credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated “distance education courses.” A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306.
Drop Fee
Students will be able to add and drop online through May 17. After May 17, students may still drop up to the start of the session in which the course begins (A, B, C, or D) by completing a Request to Add/Withdraw form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar. Students who drop after May 15 and up to the first day of the session in which the course begins (A, B, C, or D) will incur a $150 per credit penalty for each course dropped. Students may add until the start of the course using an Add/Withdraw form, space permitting, and if the student could reasonably complete any first-day assignments by the start of the course. Please note that the Add/Withdrawal request will not override holds, time conflicts, or credit maximums. Be sure you are able to take the course before submitting the form. The drop fee applies even if you are dropping a course to add a different course that you prefer to take. The Office of the Registrar cannot waive the drop fee.
Students may not drop or add after the start of the course. Students who withdraw after the start of the course will owe full tuition.
The drop fee only applies to dropped courses, after May 17. Wait list seats are not registrations, therefore, the drop fee does not apply when you drop yourself from a wait list.
Credit Limit
There is an 8 credit limit for summer. Students may register for between 9 and 10 credits (between 9 and 12 credits for a full-time residency) in the summer semester with advance permission from the Vice Dean, Academic and Faculty Affairs. No student may register for more than 10 credits in the summer unless the student is doing a full-time summer residency. A student doing a full-time summer residency may register for up to 12 credits for the residency with the advance permission of both the Externship Director and the Vice Dean, though the final decision rests with the Vice Dean. You can find the summer overload request form online. Do not register for more than 8 credits without first receiving permission—if you do so, you will be dropped from all summer courses. Approval to register for an overload does not guarantee seats in your selected courses, you must still register for them online when your registration time opens.
Preparation for Registration
- Online Registration Instructions
- Tuition Refund Schedule
- Field Placement Opportunities
- Academic Calendars (for term start and end dates)
- JD Requirements
Registering for classes
Specific course instructions
- Registering for Competitions
- Registering for Independent Research
- Clinics and Externships
Register or wait list for clinics and externships during online registration. If a clinic or externship is offered for different credit levels , select the desired credits from the drop-down menu and Add the course. If the course is full, you may add your name to the wait list by clicking on the Wait list button. If a clinic or externship does not permit online registration, follow the instructions in the notes column to add the course.
General Externship information
Independent Externship program
Student Attorney Practice Certification Rules
Registration-Add/Drop Policies
Registration-Add/Drop policies for current students are in the Law School Catalog.
Need Help Registering?
Check out our FAQ page
registrar@mitchellhamline.edu
Adding a course you’ve dropped or failed: Fill out an Add/Withdraw form. The database will read your prior enrollment as a duplicate.
If you don’t have the pre-requisite and want to take the course anyway: Contact the faculty. Only they can waive it, and it must be in writing directly to the Office of the Registrar.
Mitchell Hamline School of Law is registered with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education pursuant to Minnesota Statures sections 136A.61 to 136A.71. Registration is not an endorsement of the institution. Credits earned at the institution may not transfer to all other institutions.