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Requirements

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

COLLEGE OF LAW

REQUIRED CORE CURRICULUM

DAY DIVISION

FIRST YEAR FALL

FIRST YEAR SPRING

SECOND YEAR FALL

SECOND YEAR SPRING
ADDITIONAL COURSES
Required to graduate

Contracts I (L4175) 3 hours Contracts II (L4176) 3 hours Constitutional Law I
(L 4165) 3 hours Constitutional Law II (L4166) 3 hours Evidence² (L4235)
4 hours

Criminal Law (L4195) 4 hours Perspective Elective¹
3 hours Public Service Requirement⁴ Administrative Law² (L4025)
3 hours

Lawyering Process
(L4385) 2 hours Lawyering Process (L4386)
2 hours Legal Profession² (L4425)
3 hours

Civil Procedure (L4120) 4 hours Property (L 4490) 4 hours Upper Level Writing Requirement⁵

Torts I (L4610)
3 hours Torts II (L4611)
3 hours

²Day: Requirements to be completed anytime after first year.

EVENING DIVISION

FIRST YEAR FALL FIRST YEAR SPRING SECOND YEAR FALL SECOND YEAR SPRING ADDITIONAL COURSES
Required to Graduate

Contracts I (L4175) 3 hours Contracts II (L4176) 3 hours Constitutional Law I (L4165)
3 hours Constitutional Law II (L4166) 3 hours Admin Law ³ (L4025)
3 hours

Lawyering Process (L4385)
2 hours Lawyering Process (L4386)
2 hours Perspective Elective ¹ 3 hours Criminal Law (L4195) 4 hours Legal Profession³(L4425) 3 hours

Civil Procedure I (L4122) 2 hours Civil Procedure II (L4123) 2 hours Property (L4490)
4 hours Public Service Requirement⁴ Evidence³ (L4235)
4 hours

Torts I (L4610)
3 hours Torts II (L4611)
3 hours Upper Level Writing Requirement⁵

³ Evening: Requirements to be completed anytime after second year.

¹ Perspective Elective for both Day & Evening Divisions (choose one):

Alternative Dispute Resolution (L4060) 3 hours

American Legal History (L4065) 3 hours

Comparative Law (L4135) 3 hours

International Law (L4320) 3 hours

Jurisprudence (L4345) 3 hours

⁴ Public Service Requirement for all students beginning with 2004 incoming class

A student is eligible to commence satisfying the Public Service Requirement only after the student has completed 30 academic credit hours. It is strongly recommended that each student satisfy the Public Service Requirement before the end of the next to last semester of law school. Ways of satisfying the Public Service Requirement are:

An internship for credit in a government, judicial, non-profit setting or in a private law firm doing pro bono work under the auspices of the Internship office or the Environmental/Natural Resources Law Internship Program (ENRLIP).

A Sturm College of Law student law clinic under the auspices of the Student Law Office or the Environmental Law Clinical Partnership.

A pre-approved Sturm College of Law course which has a practical public service component under the auspices of a faculty member.

An approved Public Interest Practicum and Public Interest Practicum Online Seminar under the auspices of the Director of Public Interest.

⁵ Upper Level Writing Requirement for all students beginning with 2003 incoming class

Effective with the class entering the JD program in fall 2003 and thereafter, students must complete the upper level writing requirement to graduate. The requirement provides that students must write a substantial paper or papers, receive feedback, and undertake at least one mandatory rewrite. There are a number of options available to students for meeting this requirement, including: 1) a seminar designated as an upper level writing seminar; 2) a directed research paper with a faculty member; 3) a clinical assignment; 4) an advanced writing course; and 5) any paper produced for credit that is certified by a faculty member as meeting the upper level writing requirement. (View courses which satisfy the ULW requirement)

Requirements beginning Fall 2006

A. Day Division Evening Division

1st Year fall Civil Procedure (4) Lawyering Process I (3) Two of the following 4-credit courses: Contracts, Criminal Law, Property,Torts (4) Civil Procedure (4) Lawyering Process I (3) One of the remainingg 4-credit courses: Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts (4)

1st year spring Lawyering Process II (3) Constitutional Law (4) Two of the following 4-credit courses: Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts (4) Lawyering Process II (3) Two of the remaining 4-credit courses: Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts (4)

2nd Year fall Constitutional Law (4) One remaining 4-credit courses: Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts (4)

2nd Year spring

THE REQUIRED COURSES
All students must successfully complete the following courses in any semester prior to graduation:
Legal Profession (3)
Evidence (4)
Administrative Law (3)
B. Perspective Elective (3)

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