ATTENTION: POTENTIAL MAY 2012 DEGREE CANDIDATES

ATTENTION:  POTENTIAL MAY 2012 DEGREE CANDIDATES

 FRIENDLY REMINDER . . . 91 credits required (instead of 88 credits) if GPA requires enrollment in 9200:673 Advanced Legal Applications, 3 credits, for Spring 2012. 

 SCENARIO #1:    Present accumulative GPA before this fall 2011 semester is 2.5 or lower, then 91 credits are required to graduate which will include 9200:673 Advanced Legal Applications, 3 credits, spring 2012.

Course Requirements Based Upon UPPER DIVISION (Nearing Completion) Students

        Effective with Fall 2008 Class:

             Bar Preparation Course (9200:673), Advanced Legal Applications

*Mandatory enrollment in the Bar Preparation Course, 9200:673, Advanced Legal Applications applies to:

(a)       Any student planning to graduate in December of a given year, who had a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or lower at the beginning of the fall semester of the year immediately preceding the year in which they intend to graduate, and

 (b)       any student planning to graduate in May of a given year, who had a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or lower at the beginning of the immediately preceding fall semester, must enroll in the Bar Preparation Course, beginning with the class entering in 2008.

 In addition, such enrollment is recommended for students in classes entering prior to 2008.

 *This restriction shall end if the student achieves an accumulative law GPA of 2.7 or higher.

  SCENARIO #2:     GPA end First Semester is 2.0 or lower:

 Course Requirements Based Upon First SEMESTER Grades

 Effective with Fall 2008 Entering Class:

 A student with an accumulative law grade point average of 2.0 or below (or 2.3 or below effective with the Fall 2009 entering class and subsequent entering classes) at the end of the first semester of law studies is subject to the following requirements:

 1. The student will be assigned to a two-credit Criminal Law Lab in addition to Criminal Law.

 2. The student will be withdrawn from LARW II during the spring semester. The student will take LARW II during the summer after the first year of law school. If the student is in the part-time program, the student will also take Property I & II during the summer of the first year of law school. Students may not be employed if enrolled in Property I, Property II and LARW II.

 3. The student may be required to take additional not for credit Lab courses prior to graduation.*

 4. The student will be required to take the Bar Exam Preparation Course (3 credits) during the final semester prior to graduation. As a result, the student will be required to successfully complete 91 credits (rather than 88 credits) in order to graduate.*

 5.  The student will be required to enroll in the Academic Success Program.*

 *This restriction shall end if the student achieves an accumulative law GPA of 2.7 or higher.

 Students required to earn 91 credits must plan to achieve those 91 credits WITHOUT EXCEEDING the absolute maximum number of 17 credits in fall 2011 or spring 2012.     The maximum load = 16 credits in a fall or spring semester.  

Overload permission may be granted to enroll in 17 credits rather than 16 credits if a student achieves a 2.5 or higher accumulative GPA.  At this point, the next opportunity to be considered for overload would be end of Fall 2011 if your accumulative GPA is 2.50 or higher.    Overload request form may be found at http://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1837513.pdf.

 See Fall 2009 Entering Class Graduation Audit Checklist at:  http://www.uakron.edu/law/students/studentservices/docs/Prelim_Grad_Audit_Eff_Fall_2008.pdf

 See Law Student Handbook at:  http://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/2080997.pdf  

 Questions regarding Graduation Requirements?   Please contact Assistant Dean Thorpe at LThorpe@uakron.edu.

 Questions regarding Advanced Legal Applications?   Please contact Director of Academic Success Programs Katherine Silver Kelly at ksk10@uakron.edu.

 

Federalist Society Event – Wednesday, 8/24, 12:15 pm, L-152 – FREE CHIPOTLE

Join The Federalist Society as they kickoff the fall semester with “To the Shores of Tripoli: A Debate on Obama’s Unauthorized Intervention in Libya.” Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason Law will debate our own Professor Wilson Huhn.  The event will take place in L-152 on Wednesday, August 24th at 12:15pm. Chipotle will provide lunch.  Both Professor Somin’s and Professor Huhn’s biographies are included below:

Ilya Somin:  Somin currently serves as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Critical Review, and others. He has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com, Newark Star Ledger, Orlando Sentinel, South China Morning Post, Legal Times, National Law Journal and Reason. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post,  BBC, and the Voice of America, among other media. In July 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog.

Wilson Huhn: Wilson R. Huhn is a C. Blake McDowell, Jr., Professor and Associate Director of the Constitutional Law Center at The University of Akron School of Law. He currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and Commercial Paper. He received his B.A. at Yale University and J.D., cum laude, at Cornell University, where he was a member of the Cornell Law Review. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1984, Professor Huhn served as law clerk for the late Judge Leo A. Jackson in the 8th District Court of Appeals and as an associate at Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. Professor Huhn’s book The Five Types of Legal Argument (Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 2008) is required reading at a number of law schools nationally. His recent publications include Constantly Approximating Popular Sovereignty: Seven Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Law,19 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 291 (2010); The Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell, and Cruikshank in Constitutional Interpretation, 42 Akron Law Review 1051 (2009); Cross Burning as Hate Speech Under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, 2 Amsterdam Law Forum vol. 1 19 (2009) (online journal); Ten Questions on Gay Rights and Freedom of Religion, Akron Journal of Constitutional Law and Policy (online journal) (July 31, 2009); Abraham Lincoln Was a Framer of the Constitution,86:3 Washington University Law Review (Slip Opinions, online journal) (March 12, 2009); Waterboarding Is Illegal, Washington University Law Review (Slip Opinions, online journal) (May 10, 2008); Congress Has the Power to Enforce the Bill of Rights Against the Federal Government: Therefore FISA is Constitutional and the President’s Terrorist Surveillance Program Is Illegal, 16 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 537 (2007); In Defense of the Roosevelt Court, 2 Florida A & M University Law Review 1 (2007); The State Action Doctrine and the Principle of Democratic Choice, 34 Hofstra Law Review (2006); and The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O’Connor: A Refusal to “Foreclose the Unanticipated”, 39 Akron Law Review 373-415 (2006). The graduating class selected Professor Huhn Outstanding Professor of the Year in 1987, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2008, the Akron law alumni awarded him the Outstanding Publication prize in 2004 and 2006, and the law faculty named him the “Most Valuable Player” for his contributions to legal scholarship, 2001-03. Professor Huhn volunteers his time on community boards and is active organizing and coaching adaptive recreation programs for youths with special needs.

Career Planning Interview Workshop – Wednesday, August 24 at 12:15 in Room 167

The Career Planning & Placement Office presents “Interview Skills”, a workshop to help you prepare for the interviewing process. Attorneys from two major NE Ohio law firms and law students who have been through the interview process in the past will offer their insight and advice. Whether you are interviewing now or will be in the future, you will get useful information at this workshop.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 12:15 in Room 167.

Please note that due to a scheduling conflict, the attorneys that were scheduled to participate in the 5:15 session will not be able to attend. Therefore, the 5:15 session of this workshop has been cancelled. Instead, we will videotape the 12:15 session and post that video to the CPPO website.

**Food served to those who attend.**