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Chapter 1
Academic Information

1.1 Length of Program

Full-time Option (DAY) A full-time option is available to entering and returning students. Students may enroll for 12-16 credits and be considered full time during an academic semester, and 6-8 credits during a summer term. The law school curriculum may be completed in six academic semesters. Students can accelerate this program by attending summer school, or extend the time necessary for completing the curriculum by reducing the number of credit hours taken per semester. Students cannot complete the Hamline full-time program in less than two years nor more than eighty-four (84) months. Under the fulltime program students must register for a minimum of 12 credits per academic semester, and 6 credits per summer term.

Part-time Option (DAY) A part-time option is available to entering and returning students. Students may enroll for 8-11 credits and be considered part-time during an academic semester, and 3-5 credits during a summer term. Enrollment is limited to fifteen percent (15be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may switch from part time to full time or from full time to part time each semester, space permitting in the part-time program. However, once a student registers as a part-time student, they are entitled to a part-time slot until they choose to register as a full-time student. Attending school on a part-time basis will affect a students graduation date. Part-time students must complete their studies within eighty-four months of their matriculation date. During their law school careers, students attending on a part-time basis will be classified as first-, second-, or third-year law students based on the number of credits they have accumulated at the end of each semester.

Full-time Option (WEEKEND) A full-time option is available to entering and returning students. After completing their first weekend semester, students may enroll for 12-16 credits and be considered full time during an academic semester, and 6-8 credits during a summer term. Students must complete their studies within eighty-four months of their matriculation date. Students must register for a minimum of 12 credits per academic semester, and 6 credits per summer term.

Part-time Option (WEEKEND) A part-time option is available to entering and returning students. Students may enroll for 8-11 credits and be considered part-time during an academic semester, and 3-5 credits during a summer term. Enrollment is limited to fifteen percent (15be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may switch from part time to full time or from full time to part time each semester, space permitting in the part-time program. However, once a student registers as a part-time student, they are entitled to a part-time slot until they choose to register as a full-time student. Attending school on a part-time basis will affect a students graduation date. Part-time students must complete their studies within eighty-four months of their matriculation date. During their law school careers, students attending on a part-time basis will be classified as first-, second-, or third-year law students based on the number of credits they have accumulated at the end of each semester.

1.2 Legal Perspectives

Each entering student will be required to take one of the following legal perspectives courses:

DRI Summer Abroad: Paris/Budapest

DRI Summer Abroad: Rome, Italy

Israel Summer Abroad Program

Norway Summer Abroad Program

Comparative Law

Consortium Class in Equal Justice

Intl Human Rights Law

International Law

Jurisprudence

Law and Economics

Law and Humanities

Legal History

Restorative Justice

Sem/1st Amendment

Sem/2nd Amendment

Sem/American Jury Trial

Sem/American Slavery & the Law

Sem/Con Interpretative Theory

Sem/Constitutional Law

Sem/Crime & Punishment

Sem/Criminal Law: Police Practices

Sem/Education Law

Sem/European Union Law

Sem/Ethics Homicide Intl Human Rights

Sem/From Rules to Ethics

Sem/Gender & Childhood

Sem/Homicide

Sem/International Human Rights

Sem/International Law

Sem/Intl Civil Literature

Sem/Latinos and Development of the Law in the United States

Sem/Law, Religion & Politics

Sem/Lawyer as Problem Solver

Sem/Lawyers & Leadership

Sem/Lethal Violence

Sem/NAFTA

Sem/National Security Law

Sem/Native American Law

Sem/Persuasion

Sem/Practice of Law

Sem/Race and the Law

Sem/Takings

Sem/World Trade Organizations

ST/Animal Law

ST/Comparative Negotiation & DRP

ST/Dispute Resolution

ST/DR Restorative Justice

ST/Ethics

ST/From Rules to Ethics

ST/Gender and the Law

ST/Genetics

ST/Intl Criminal Justice

ST/Intro to the Civil Code (Puerto Rico)

ST/Jurisprudence

ST/Law & Humanities

ST/Military Justice and the Law of War

ST/Practice of Law

ST/Sexual Orientation

1.3 Policy on Employment

According to Academic Rule 1-111, a full-time student is defined as a student who devotes substantially all of his or her working hours to the study of law (A.B.A. Standard, Section 304). Any full-time student who is employed in excess of 20 hours per week may be deemed in violation of this standard. This rule applies during the entire three years of a full-time students law school education; it does not apply to part-time status. The rule also does not apply to summer classes unless the student is using summer as a term of attendance in order to graduate early.

1.4 Policy on Visiting Away or Transfer

The policy of Hamline University School of Law regarding application to visit away at another ABA accredited law school (other than under the Consortium agreement, p. 33), or application for transfer to another law school is as follows:

Visiting Away Requests

1. There will be a $50 processing fee per request, which must accompany each application form. There will also be a per credit charge of $10 for every credit over ten which is transferred onto your Hamline transcript.
2. Other than a Consortium class, visiting at other Minnesota law schools will not be allowed except in the case of a course which will not be offered during a students time at Hamline University School of Law.
3. Visiting away will not be permitted during the last semester of a students law school career.
4. Only grades of 2.0 on a 4.0 point scale, or its equivalent, or above, will receive credit transferring into Hamline.

Transfer Requests
There will be a $50 processing fee per request, which must accompany each Application for Letter of Good Standing form.

1.5 Credit Load and Limitations

Part-time students may not register for less than 8 credits and full-time students may not register for more than 16 credits without approval from the associate dean for academic affairs. Overload/ Underload Credit Forms are available in the Registrars Office.

1.6 Course Limitations

A student may not, within the same academic year, receive credit for:

1. Either Law Review, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, or Journal of Law and Religion.
2. More than one Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Team experience.

Without permission of the Associate Dean, a student may not receive credit for:

1. More than one independent study.
2. More than one practicum.
3. More than a total of 5 credits in law school competitions.

A student may take only one seminar unless there is an opening in a seminar after the early drop/add period.

1.7 Graduation Requirements

The responsibility rests with the student ensuring that his or her program includes all requirements for graduation.

1. First-Year Courses

   First-Year Courses (Day) (Should be taken within the first two semesters of law school)
   

   Fall Semester		Spring Semester
   Civil Procedure I	3	Civil Procedure II	3
   Contracts I	3	Contracts III	3
   Legal Rsch/Wrtg I	2	Legal Rsch/Wrtg II	2
   Torts I	3	Constitutional Law I	3
   Criminal Law	3	Property I	3
   Total	14	Total	14

   First-Year Courses (Weekend) (Should be taken within the first three semesters of law school)
   

   Civil Procedure I	3	Civil Procedure II	3
   Contracts I	3	Contracts II	3
   		Legal Rsch/Wrtg I	2 (2d sem)
   		Legal Rsch/Wrtg II	2 (3rd sem)

   
   

   (The following four courses are part of the first-year curriculum of the weekend option, but may be offered in any one of your first three semesters)

   Torts I	3	Constitutional Law I	3
   Criminal Law	3	Property I	3

2. Completion of Professional Responsibility.
3. Completion of a course designated as a seminar.? Seminar courses are open to second- and third-year day students and third semester or beyond weekend students. A student may take more than one seminar only if space allows after those who have not yet had a seminar have registered. A seminar course shall require a substantial paper that is rewritten following a critique by the professor of an earlier draft. Enrollment in each seminar course will be limited to 16 students.
4. Each student will be required to take a legal perspectives course. See earlier paragraph on Legal Perspectives for classes satisfying this requirement.
5. Completion of at least 88 semester credits of which 45 must be completed in residence at Hamline.
6. Cumulative grade point average of 2.000 or above.
7. Completion of course work for J.D. degree within 84 months for full-time students and part-time students.
8. Hamline University School of Law currently graduates its students in May, August, and January.

1.8 Minnesota Bar Exam

Hamline courses which help prepare students to take the Minnesota Bar Examination are usually offered twice each year.

Courses which help prepare students to take the Minnesota Bar Examination

Students must also pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination in order to be admitted to the bar in Minnesota. Application forms are available in the Registrars Office. Each Board of Law Examiners has specific rules for applicants to their bar. Please check immediately upon entering law school regarding your particular requirements.

Chapter 2
Curriculum

2.1 Curriculum, Day Option

(Course Scheduling for Upper Level Students)

Courses Offered Fall and Spring Every Year

Offered Fall or Spring Every Year

Offered Fall or Spring Alternate Years

Offered at Least Three Terms Every Two Years

Offered Irregularly

2.2 Curriculum Weekend Option

(Course Scheduling for Upper Level Students)

Offered at least every other year

Other basic courses will be offered sufficiently enough to allow weekend students to graduate.

2.3 Dispute Resolution Institute Course Offerings

Offered Every Summer and/or January Term

Offered Irregularly

2.4 Advanced
Curriculum

Agricultural Law

 

Business Issues in Agriculture

Government Regulation of Agriculture

Alternative Dispute Resolution

 

ADR Clinic

Advanced Mediation Series

Evaluative Mediation

Facilitative Mediation

Transformative Mediation

Arbitration

Arbitration Moot Court (Vienna, Austria)

Certificate Program in Arbitration Law and Practice

Introduction to Arbitration Law and Practice: Domestic and International Aspects

Consumer Arbitration

Employment Arbitration

Securities Arbitration

Transborder Arbitration

Arbitration Skills Clinic

Client Counseling Competition

Collaborative Law

Collective Bargaining and

Labor Arbitration

Cross-Cultural Negotiation

Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context

Dispute Resolution Practices

Employment Law ADR

Environmental and Public Interest Dispute Resolution

Family Mediation

Interviewing and Counseling

Mediation

Mediation Advocacy

Mediation Advocacy Moot Court

Mediation Clinic

Negotiating the Minefields of Managed Health Care

Negotiation

Negotiation Moot Court

Online Arbitration, Negotiation, and Mediation Moot Court

Paris/Budapest Summer Abroad Program

Fostering International Commerce in Paris: Arbitration Law and Practice

Building Bridges in Budapest: Mediation and Other Methods to Foster Democratic Dialogue

Public Policy and ADR

Restorative Justice, Cultural Conflict, and Social Healing

Rome Summer Abroad Program

European Business Law

Negotiating International Business Transactions

Mediating International Business Disputes

Seminar in ADR

Technology and ADR

Theories of Conflict

Unbundled Legal Services

Business and Commercial Law

 

Accounting for Lawyers

Antitrust

Banking Law

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Reorganizations

Business Planning

Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration

Commercial Paper

Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Commercial Transactions

Computer Law

Consumer Transactions

Corporate Finance

Corporations

Employment Discrimination

Employment Law

Insurance

Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition

International Business Transactions

Labor Law

Labor Relations in the Public Sector

Secured Transactions

Securities Regulation

Seminar in Business Law

Seminar in Commercial Law

Unincorporated Business Entities

Criminal Law

 

Advanced Litigation Practice

Criminal Procedure I and II

Evidence

Litigation Practice

Prosecution & Defense of White Collar Crime

Seminar in Criminal Law

Seminar in Criminal Procedure

Seminar in Evidence

Environmental Law

 

Environmental Law and Ecology

Law of Air and Water Quality

Seminar in Environmental Law

Toxic and Hazardous Substances: Superfund

Intellectual Property

 

Arts and Entertainment Law

Computer and Internet Law

Copyright Law and Related Rights

Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition

International Intellectual Property

Patent Law

Trademark Law

Unfair Competition and Other Predatory Practices

International & Comparative Law

 

Admiralty

Comparative Law

Conflict of Laws

Immigration Law

International Business Transactions

International Civil Litigation

International Human Rights Law

International Law

Law, Religion and Ethics (Israel)

Norwegian Law and Legal System (Norway)

Seminar in Transnational Law

DRI Summer Program Abroad

(France/Hungary)

DRI Summer Program Abroad (Italy)

Jurisprudence: Historical,

 

Philosophical and

 

Interdisciplinary Topics

 

Jurisprudence

Law and Economics

Law, Religion, and Ethics (Israel)

Legal History

Professional Responsibility

Seminar in Ethics

Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies

Seminar in Jurisprudence

Law and the Person

 

Children and the Law

Civil Rights

Employment Law

Family Law

International Human Rights Law

Labor Law

Law of Juvenile Delinquency

Native American Law

Seminar in Family Law

Seminar in Torts

Torts II

Lawyering Skills

 

Advanced Legal Research

Clinics

Client Counseling Competition

Dispute Resolution Practices

Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy

Law Review

Legal Advocacy

Litigation Practice

Mock Trial

Moot Court

Practicums

Personal Injury/Health Care

 

Advanced Litigation Practice

Insurance

Law and Medicine

Litigation Practice

Medical Malpractice

Regulation of the Health Care Industry

Seminar in Law & Medicine

Seminar in Torts

Workers Compensation

Practice and Procedure

 

Conflict of Laws

Evidence

Federal Courts

Remedies

Seminar in Civil Procedure

Seminar in Evidence

Property

 

Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Estate Planning and Tax

Land Use Planning

Modern Real Estate Transactions

Property II

Seminar in Property

Wills and Trusts

Public Law

 

Administrative Law

Civil Rights

Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration

Constitutional Law II

Consumer Transactions

Employment Discrimination

Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy

Labor Law

Labor Relations in the Public Sector

Land Use Planning

Legislation

Mass Media Law

Native American Law

Seminar in Administrative Law

Seminar in Constitutional Law

Seminar in State and Local Government

Social Welfare Law

State and Local Government

Taxation

 

Estate Planning and Tax

Seminar in Tax Law

State and Local Tax/Public Finance

Tax I: Taxation of Individuals

Tax II: Taxation of Business Entities

Chapter 3
Course Descriptions

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
3 credits
Examines the powers and procedures of administrative agencies in investigation, rulemaking, adjudication, and informal actions; as well as the interrelation of administrative agencies with the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government in the development of public policy.
Offered at least three semesters every two years

ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH
3 credits
Provides in-depth training in efficient, cost-effective research methods covering a wide range of on-line and manual formats. It includes a review of basic research materials and techniques, and a focus on primary and secondary sources, with written exercises which include a comprehensive research guide on a particular topic.
Offered fall or spring every year

ADVANCED LITIGATION PRACTICE
3 credits
Provides advanced in-depth training in advocacy skills for each stage of litigation through lecture, discussion, demonstration, simulation and critique. Considers both civil and criminal trials. Students complete a simulated bench trial and jury trial. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure I and Litigation Practice
Offered fall or spring every year

AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM
3 credits
This class is for LL.M. and Norwegian exchange students only. Specifically designed to acquaint law students visiting from foreign countries with the American legal system.
Offered fall and spring every year

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW
2 credits
Encompasses a variety of topics relevant to an understanding of the practice of art & entertainment law. Specific areas of the law that will be covered include contracts, copyrights, trademarks, artistsa moral rights, labor law, the law of non-profit corporations, immigration law and its effect on foreign athletes and artists, and international law as it relates to the transportation of art. The study of contract issues will be broken into particular areas, such as fine arts, performance arts, the entertainment industry (music and film), publishing, and sports. The issues of artistic censorship as it related to obscenity laws and the first amendment will be discussed.
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property or Copyright Law
Offered fall or spring alternate years

BANKRUPTCY
3 credits

Studies state collection remedies, such as executions, garnishment and attachment, and bankruptcy liquidation under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Prerequisite: Secured Transactions
Offered fall or spring every year, usually spring

BANKRUPTCY REORGANIZATIONS
2 credits

Studies reorganizations under Chapter 11 (business reorganization), 12 (family farmer reorganization) and 13 (wage earner reorganization). Prerequisite or concurrent registration: Bankruptcy
Offered fall or spring alternate years, usually spring

CIVIL PROCEDURE
3 credits
6 credits Focuses on the civil judicial process and dispute resolution. It includes a study of the constitutional and legislative grants of authority to the state and federal judicial systems, including questions of personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, and venue. Studies each stage of the civil lawsuit including pleadings, motions, discovery, trial, post-trial motions, appeals, and finality of judgments. In addition, examines alternatives to the litigation process including mediation and arbitration and the role of negotiation in resolving clients’ problems. Two-semester, first-year required course

CLINIC STUDENT DIRECTOR
credits
1, 2, or 3 Student directors will work in one of the Hamline Clinics and handle their own client caseload, as well as provide supervision to and collaboration with new clinic enrollees. Student directors will not attend regular weekly clinic classes, but are instead expected to devote a minimum of 45 hours per credit to client representation and supervision/collaboration with other clinic students as assigned by the clinic supervisor. Only students who have successfully completed one of the clinics are eligible to enroll as a student director; enrollment is by invitation of the instructor upon advance application. Preference will ordinarily go to students who have not yet been a clinic director. With permission of the supervisor this course can be repeated for credit. Students may enroll for 1, 2, or 3 with faculty approval.
Prerequisite: Professional Responsibility and one of Hamline’s clinics.
Recommended: Lawyering Skills, Litigation Practice and/or Evidence, Administrative Law, Dispute Resolution Practices, Children and the Law, Juvenile Law or Mediation Skills (depending on clinic focus).
Offered fall and spring every year

CLINIC/ADR
3 credits

This clinic offering takes advantage of a collaboration between Hamline and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to offer students the opportunity to represent victims of alleged employment discrimination in mediation proceedings. The clinic is designed to focus on the role of the lawyer in alternative dispute resolution venues, including, but not limited to, mediation. In addition to their mediation advocacy on behalf of clinic clients, students also will observe ADR processes conducted by court-appointed neutrals. Students are required to complete 130 hours, including 60 hours of class work and 70 hours of case work. Prerequisite or concurrent: Professional Responsibility.
Recommended: Dispute Resolution Practices (or one or more of the Dispute Resolution Institute Summer courses), Employment Law, Employment Discrimination,, Lawyering Skills, Litigation Practice, and/or Evidence.