All registration materials must be submitted by 5:00 p.m., Thursday, November 8.  Student must also submit their Employment Card by Thursday, November 8.

If you are submitting any forms, besides the Employment Card, you must attach a purple pre-registration form to your forms. The forms are outside of the Student Records Office.

Attached is a sheet with the registration dates, but you are responsibile for reading all of the registration instrucitons.  Current Students, Register, Registration Forms

Due to an unavoidable conflict with Spring semester meetings of the Faculty Senate, Professor Trucios-Haynes' Immigration Law course has had to be rescheduled.  Professor Trucios-Haynes is one of the law school's representatives on this governing body.  The course will now meet from 9:00-10:25am on Mondays and Wednesdays in the Spring 2013 semester, rather than at 2:25.  A revised course schedule has been posted to the law school website.

 In the past, students have asked us to let them know, in advance of registration for Spring courses, the law school's plans for summer term course offerings.   At this point, the law school anticipates offering at least the following courses during the Summer term of 2013:

 

Federal Income Taxation of Individuals (formerly Basic Tax) - Core - 4 hours

Women and the Law (Sem) - Perspective - Writing - 2 hours

International Law - Perspective - offered online - 3 hours

Externships - Skills - variable hours

            Legal Aid

            Judicial

            Commonwealth Atty

            County Atty

            Dept of Public Advocacy

            Medical Research - Contracting and Reg. Affairs

            Tax

 

Further details about the Summer 2013 term, including a specific schedule, will be made available in the Spring.  In general, summer classes are scheduled in the early morning or in the evening, in order to accommodate student work schedules as much as possible.  While it is possible that additions may be made to the list of courses above, we will make best efforts not to cancel any of these courses (other than for lack of enrollment).  The Summer 2013 academic calendar is available at http://louisville.edu/calendars/academic/jd.html

 

If you have any questions about the Summer 2013 schedule, please contact Associate Dean Hall.

 

 

Construction is beginning on our new, state-of-the-art trial courtroom on the lower level of the law school.  While we are excexcited about the training opportunities of this new courtroom, there may be some inconvenience or noise incidental to construction for the next few weeks.  The contractor is aware of our class schedule and will be doing the noise-intensive work during the night hours (tonight, they're cutting trenches in the concrete for electrical and Ethernet wiring).  This note is just to make everyone aware of the presence of contractor staff in our building for the next few weeks, and of the potential for some construction activities during the day.  If you are in the building studying after class hours, you may want to relocate your studying away from the potentially noisy construction.   If you encounter any problems with this project, please contact Associate Dean Tim Hall.

Just a reminder that Thursday, October 11, is the last day to withdraw from a course.

Sponsor: University of Montana School of Law's Public Land & Resources Law Review and the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

General criteria: The Competition is open to students currently enrolled in law school.  Any relevant article, case comment, note, or essay may be submitted, including writing submitted for academic credit. 

Subject matter: Entries should demonstrate original thought on a question of legal and/or policy significance relating to the symposium topic of the role of public lands and oceans in America's energy future.

Deadline: January 14, 2013

Amount of award: The winning entry will be published in the symposium edition of the Public Land & Resources Law Review in summer of 2013.  The winning submissions will receive a $1,000, $500, and $250 cash prize. 

Submission information: See the information sheet.

Attention students graduating in December 2012, May 2013, or August 2013:
 
On Tuesday, November 13, at 12:15 p.m., representatives from the Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions, including Ms. Elizabeth Feamster, Director and General Counsel, Ms. Mary Riddell, Deputy Director, Mr. Eric Ison, Chair of the Board of Bar Examiners, and Mr. Grant Helman, Chair of the Character and Fitness Committee, will present a mandatory bar program for graduating law students on candor and related bar issues you may face when applying to take the bar. 

ABA Standard 302(a)(5) requires that each student receive substantial instruction in “the history, goals, structure, values, rules and responsibilities of the legal profession and its members.”  In addition, Interpretation 302-6 requires that the School of Law “involve members of the bench and bar in the instruction required by Standard 302(a)(5).”  This program is designed to provide instruction on professionalism issues concerning law students and lawyers and also to satisfy the ABA’s requirement in Standard 302(a)(5). 

The program will also include information about application deadlines to sit for the Kentucky Bar Exam, the application process, and the format of the exam.  The program will conclude by 1:30 p.m.

Your attendance at the November 13 program is a requirement for graduation.  Please mark your calendar now.  If you anticipate a work conflict, please make arrangements now to ensure your attendance at the mandatory program.

Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy is making available two scholarships to current 2L and part-time 3L students to attend its June 2013 U.S. Healthcare Compliance Certification Program, an intensive four-day educational program for compliance professionals and health care lawyers working in the life sciences industry. 

The scholarship award recognizes promising health law students with an aptitude for and commitment to a career in health law focusing on legal and compliance issues within the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical technology industries.  Students must submit a letter of nomination, resume, and brief personal statement.  Two scholarships ($2,400 value) will be awarded.  The submission deadline is February 8.  For more information, see Dean Ballard.