Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls
Fall 2014
Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls Fall 2014
ABA Standards
Loyola Required Curriculum
---Current as of 3/4/14
Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls Fall 2014
 ABA Standards:
 Minimum cumulative GPA: 2.0
 Complete the required curriculum; total 86 credits
 Maximum number of credits per semester: 17 credits
 Minimum number of credits per semester: 12 credits
 Minimum number of semesters: 6 semesters
 Maximum number of credits in any summer term:
8 credits
Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls Fall 2014
 Loyola Required Curriculum
 FT - 1-Ls:
 FALL SEMESTER:
 Civil Procedure - 4 credits
 Property – 4 credits
 Torts – 4 credits
 Legal Writing (& research) – 2 credits
 SPRING SEMESTER:
 Constitutional Law - 4 credits
 Contracts – 4 credits
 Criminal Law – 3 credits
 Legal Writing – 2 credits
 Perspective Elective – 2 or 3 credit elective
Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls Fall 2014
 Additional Loyola Required Curriculum
 FT – 2-Ls FALL SEMESTER:
 Advocacy – 2 credits
 Skills Training Course(s)—2 credits [before graduation]
 FT – 2-Ls SPRING SEMESTER:
 Experiential Learning – 2 credits [before graduation]
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Required for all students graduating May 2013 or later
 Professional Responsibility* - 3 credits
*take Professional Responsibility as soon as practical
 Highly Recommended Core Curriculum
 Administrative Law – 3 credits
 Business Organizations – 4 credits
 Evidence – 4 credits
 Federal Income Tax – 3 credits
 Rigorous Writing Course
Curriculum Planning
Fulltime - 2Ls & 3Ls Fall 2014
Graduation in 3 years:
 Curriculum guide to graduate in 3 years
with focus on bar passage and employable
skills
 Loyola General Requirements
 86 credits (36 required course credits)
 Minimum of 74 graded credits
 6 FT semesters on campus (minimum of 12
/maximum of 17 credits per semester)
 Exit interview with registrar
Goals and Objectives
 Master fundamental bar courses
 Learn how to work with a Code
 Solidify your research & writing and
other employable legal skills
 Allow enough time to develop career
opportunities and networking
 Focus: legal concentration or certificate
 Build the resume: co-curricular options
Available Options
 Hold at 12-14 credits
 Electives which are highly
recommended core curriculum
 Electives which are bar courses
 Electives which are pre-requisites in
track courses
 Co-curricular Options which enhance
resume
Bar Courses—Electives
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Business Organizations!!! [Fall, Spring]
Conflict of Laws [Spring]
Criminal Procedure—Adjudication [S] & Investigation [F]
Estates [Fall, Spring]
Evidence!!! [Fall, Spring, Summer]
Family Law [Fall, Spring]
Negotiable Instruments [Fall]
Sales [Fall, Spring]
Secured Transactions [Fall, Spring]
Remedies (Equity) [Fall, Spring]
Federal Courts
Advanced Civil Procedure Classes
See Bar Courses on website
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http://luc.edu/law/registrar/bar_information.html#courses
Skills Training Courses
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Clinical Programs
Externships
Trial Practice
Others:
 Negotiation; Mediation; Arbitration
 Research; Drafting Contracts; Journals;
Competitions
 Pre-trial Litigation; Accounting for
Lawyers; Street Law
Develop a Legal Concentration
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Advocacy*
Consumer and Anti-trust Law
Child and Family Law*
Business Law
Education Law
Public Interest Law*
Health Law*
Intellectual Property Law
International Law and Practice*
Tax Law*
* Designates a Certificate Program is available
Sequencing
 Sequencing of Courses required for
area of concentration or Certificate
Programs
Examples:
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Child and Family Law
Tax Law
Advocacy – Criminal Law Litigation
Health Law
Sequencing—Child and Family Law
F-14
Sp-15
F-15
Sp-16
Family Law Admin Law Admin Law Family Law
Child,
Parent &
State
Education
Law &
Policy
Juvenile
Justice
ChildLaw
Clinic
Domestic
Violence
Seminar
ChildLaw
Clinic
Highly Recommended Elective Courses: Business Organizations,
Evidence, Federal Income Tax
Required Courses: Professional Responsibility; Minimum of 12
Child & Family Law credits, including 2 Electives in Child and
Family Law; Practical Experience (i.e., Clinic); Participate in 6
Extracurricular Programs (i.e., Coffee Talk, ChildLaw Society)
Sequencing—Tax Law
F-14
Sp-15
Sm- F-15
15
Sp-16
Tax Clinic
Bus Org Corporate &
Advanced Tax Audits,
Corporate Procedures,
Ethics
Tax
Fed Tax Estates
Est &
Gift Tax
Partner Tax
Int’l Tax
Highly Recommended Elective Courses:
Administrative Law, Evidence
Required Course: Professional Responsibility
Sequencing—Advocacy (Criminal)
Sm-14
Evid
F-14
Sp-15
Sm-15
F-15
Sp-16
Crim
Crim
Pro
Pro
Invest. Adjud.
TP I
Int
Crim
Crim Pro
Pro
Adjud.
Invest.
Evid
Evid
Evid
TP I/II TP I Int
TP I
TP I/II
TP II
Highly Recommended Elective Courses: Administrative
Law, Business Organizations, Federal Income Tax
Required Courses: Professional Responsibility; 2 Electives
in Trial and Appellate Advocacy; 1 Elective in ADR;
1 Co-Curricular Experience (Clinic, Competition Team, etc.)
Sequencing—Health Law
F-14
Sp-15
F-15
Sp-16
HC Bus. & Admin. Law Life Sciences Corp Trans
Finance
& HC Reg.
& the FDA
in HC
Fed. Tax
Bus. Org.
HC Payment
& Policy
HJP or HL
Externship
HJP or HL
Externship
Highly Recommended Elective Courses: Evidence
Required Courses: Professional Responsibility; Minimum of 12
Health Law credits; Practical Experience (i.e., Health Justice
Project, Health Law Externship); Participate in 6 Extracurricular
Activities (i.e., Health Law Society, Annals of Health Law, etc.)
Co-curricular Options
 Publications & Journals
 Loyola Law Journal
 International Law Review
 Annals of Health Law
 Children’s Legal Rights Journal
 Consumer Law Review
 Public Interest Law Reporter
 Competitions
 Moot Court Teams [over 15 competitions]
 Mock Trial Teams [Corboy Fellows; Thurgood
Marshall; Civil Law Mock Trial Team; Criminal Law
Mock Trial Team]
 Skills: Client Counseling; Negotiation; Mediation;
International Commercial Arbitration
 Tutors
Recommendation: Balance
 Bar Courses
 Skills Training Courses
 Legal Concentration
 Logistics:
 Flexible Credit Courses
 Enrichment Courses
 Exam Schedule
Flexible Credit Courses
 Student Initiated Capstone Project
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1-3 Credits: Requires proposal and consent of faculty advisor
and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
 Directed Study
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1-2 credits; research project for a faculty member, who choses
scope and subject and who exercises control over the project.
For each hour of academic credit the student will engage in
substantial legal work for at least sixty (60) hours during the
semester.
 Independent Research
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1-2 credits; requires consent of a faculty member supervising
your research; the scope and subject being researched is
arranged between the student and the faculty member. For each
hour of academic credit the student will produce a scholarly work
of publishable quality of approximately 30 pages in length.
Enrichment Courses
 Explore your interests
 Expose yourself to legal areas in
demand
 Enjoy more studies with professors
you find interesting/effective
Exam Schedule
 Exam schedules will not be changed
to accommodate a student with one
or more exams on the same day or
consecutive days
Choose your courses accordingly!
Advisors
 You are welcome to schedule a curriculum counseling
session with any of the following advisors:
 Dean Faught
 Dean Gaspardo
 Dean Kaufman
 Giselle Santibanez-Bania
 If you wish to be assigned an advisor for curriculum
planning other than the above, send Dean Gaspardo
an e-mail request, indicating the area of interest if
you have one, or the name of a specific professor you
would prefer if you have a particular request
 Feel free to simply ask a professor to be your advisor
if you wish
Important Dates
 Fall Registration Dates:
 Current PT 2L/3Ls: Thursday, March 20th
 Current FT 2Ls: Friday, March 21st
 Current PT 1Ls: Monday, March 24th
 Current FT 1Ls: Tuesday, March 25th
Things to keep in mind:
 711 Certification – must complete 43 credit
hours before applying for a 711 license.
 MPRE – offered 3 times a year –
March, August, November
 Does not have to be taken in conjunction
with Professional Responsibility
(although recommended)
Key Registration Issues
 Typical Blocks
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Password Block
Wrong Date for Registration
Financial Block
Immunization Block
Firewall Block
No Transcript on File
System Down
Typical Blocks
 Password Block
 Pre-emptive Procedure:
 Verify your password for LOCUS works
before your registration date
 If you haven’t changed your password since
the last registration period your password
will have expired
 See User Memo#8 in computer lab or call
4-4444
Typical Blocks
 Financial Block
 SBO [Bursar] Blocks:
 Pre-emptive Procedure:
 Make sure your tuition and other fees are paid
 Any unpaid balance of $150 or more will
BLOCK your registration [verify both tuition
and other fees are paid]
 Go to Loyola homepage, click on LOCUS
Typical Blocks
 System Down
 Keep trying!
 Contact the Registration help line:
 (312) 915-7167 –Law Registrar Office
 (312) 915-7221 –University Registrar Office
 Hopefully this will not happen while you are
registering, but if it does, keep trying until the
system allows you access to register
 No concessions can be made for anyone
disadvantaged by a system failure, sorry.
Pre-Approved Courses
 Some courses require prior approval
 Externships
 Instructor Approval Courses
 Procedure for registration
 Complete the Instructor Approval Registration
Form from the Registration website and submit
the signed approval to the Registrar
 The Registrar will register you for the course
Closed Courses
 Once a course is closed the only way
of getting in is to keep trying!
 There is almost always a fluctuation in
the course enrollments during the
registration period, the persistent
student has the best chance of getting in
when an opening occurs [especially
happens on the first day of the class.]
Thanks!!!!
 Good Luck with Registration
 Communicate any Problems
 Register Early