Doctor of Jurisprudence
To qualify for the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (JD), a student must meet
the following requirements:
- The student must have completed a period of resident study equivalent to
at least three academic years.
- The student must have taken (and, if failed, repeated once) all courses
required by the faculty of the School of Law at the time of the
student's initial enrollment, except those that have been removed from
the list of required courses since the student's initial enrollment. The
student must pass at least one seminar as described in the section
"Seminars" below.
- Eighty-six semester hours are required for graduation. With
the permission of the dean, a student may enroll in a course in another
school or college of the University. To count toward graduation from the
School of Law, the course must be related to a course of study offered
in the School of Law. If the course is in a foreign language, it may be
either undergraduate or graduate; in all other fields, only graduate
courses may be counted. (Except in the College of Pharmacy and the
School of Law, graduate courses at the University are identified by
numbers with "8" or "9" as the second digit.) No more than twelve
semester hours of such work may be counted.
Students who complete undergraduate foreign language courses may apply
one credit hour toward the JD degree per two and a half credit hours
earned.
- The student must have a grade point average of at least 1.90 on all work
taken in the School of Law.
