Students Entering Prior to the Fall Term of 2021 are Subject to the Following Course Curriculum
First-Year Required Courses Include
| Course |
Hours |
| Basic Civil Procedure |
3 |
| Civil Law Property |
3 |
| Contracts |
3 |
| LA Criminal Law |
3 |
| LA Family Law |
3 |
| Lawyering Process I |
2 |
| Legal Analysis and Writing I |
2 |
| Legal Analysis and Writing II |
2 |
| Legal Research |
2 |
| Obligations |
3 |
| Torts I |
3 |
| Torts II |
3 |
Second-Year Required Courses Include
| Course |
Hours |
| Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing |
2 |
| Constitutional Law I |
3 |
| Constitutional Law II |
3 |
| Criminal Procedure |
3 |
| Evidence |
3 |
| LA Civil Procedure I |
3 |
| LA Civil Procedure II |
2 |
| Professional Responsibility |
2 |
| LA Sale and Lease |
3 |
| Trial Advocacy |
3 |
Third-Year Required Courses Include
| Course |
Hours |
| Business Entities |
4 |
| Clinical Education |
3 |
| Conflict of Laws |
2 |
| Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure |
4 |
| LA Security Devices |
3 |
| Succession, Donations and Trusts |
3 |
While a student must complete the 90-hours curriculum to earn their Juris Doctor degree from SULC, there are additional requirements of our program of legal education. While earning the 90 hours required for graduation, a student must earn six hours of experiential credit and a sufficient number of elective courses. Students are required to complete two credit hours of upper-level legal writing. SULC’s program of legal education accommodates this requirement with the Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing course. However, a student can also satisfy the upper-level writing requirement by taking one of the following courses:
- Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing, Appellate Advocacy; Contract Drafting; or Legislative Drafting;
- Law review or journal workshop for two semesters;
- Two-hour advanced independent research; or
- Copyright Law, Health Law, Law & Poverty, Law & Religion, or Public International Law.
Courses taken in categories 3 and 4 require writing a scholarly paper of at least 7,500 words, meeting with the professor to receive individualized feedback, and using the feedback to write multiple drafts of the paper.
Certain courses have prerequisite courses. A prerequisite course is one that must be successfully completed (earned a passing grade) prior to taking the course for which it is a prerequisite. In order to satisfy the prerequisite for a given course, the student must earn a D+ or greater in the course unless they qualify for an exception (student had a 2.5 or higher cumulative grade point average in the prior semester). Nonetheless, a student who earns an “F” has not satisfied the prerequisite. Also, any student earning a D, D-, or F in a course during their first semester of study must retake the course.