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.
Special Note:
The prerequisites for the 502 Evidence course were changed prospectively in December 2022. As such, students who enter SULC in Fall 2023 or after must successfully complete only the followiing course prior to taking 502 Evidence:
404 Criminal Law (civil law track students) or 1404 Criminal Law (common law track students).
Students entering SULC prior to Fall 2023 must successfully complete the following courses prior to taking 502 Evidence:
Civil Law Track Students
417A Obligations I, and 437 Obligations II, 404 Criminal Law
Common Law Track Students
1402 Contracts I, 1403 Contracts II, and 1404 Criminal Law