Juris Doctor

All JD students must complete the following requirements to graduate:

• A minimum of six semesters in residence (see link for min/max hours per semester)
• 90 academic hours with at least a 2.0 or C average (see details below)
• Eight skills curriculum credits
• Satisfy all financial obligations to the Law School and the University

As part of the 90 academic hours needed to graduate, JD students must complete the following:

• All required courses as listed below
• Writing Requirement (2 hour requirement)
• Law and Poverty Requirement
• Experiential Requirement (9 hours)

For a comprehensive list of courses to graduate, please visit the Academic Affairs website for graduation self-audit forms.

Full Time Students

First Year

*Those students in the bottom quarter of the class after the first semester, whether they have incompletes or not, enroll in LAW L766 Principles of Legal Analysis instead of LAW L765 Lawyering II. Those students enroll in Lawyering II in the second semester of their junior year.

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2015 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the first year, the following additional courses are required:

Civil Law
LCIV L935 Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure
LCIV L940 Security Rights

Common Law
LCOM L920 Commercial Transactions
And one of the following courses below:
LCOM L800 Family Law
LCOM L921 Secured Transactions
LAW L810 Negotiable Instruments
LAW L812 Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy
LAW L823 First Amendment
LAW L836 Real Estate Transactions
LAW L842 Courts in a Federal System
LAW L955 Advanced Constitutional Law - 14th Amendment
LAW L980 Income Taxation

Second Year

*Students are warned that they must have completed this course to participate in clinic.

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2010 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the junior year, whether they have incompletes or not, they must enroll in LCIV L949 Civil Law Bar Exam Preparation I or LCOM L949 Common Law Bar Exam Preparation I in their senior year.

Third Year

Civil law students must also take at least one of the four “pool” courses listed below.

Students are cautioned to register for required courses in the years and semesters listed on this and the following page. Failing to do so may create a scheduling conflict in a subsequent semester, which could delay graduation.

Part Time Students (Evening) 

First Year

*Those students in the bottom quarter of the class after the first semester, whether they have incompletes or not, enroll in LAW L766 Principles of Legal Analysis instead of LAW L765 Lawyering II. Those students enroll in Lawyering II in the second semester of their sophomore year.

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2015 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the first year, the following additional courses are required:

Civil Law
LCIV L935 Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure
LCIV L940 Security Rights

Common Law
LCOM L920 Commercial Transactions
And one of the following courses below:
LCOM L800 Family Law
LCOM L921 Secured Transactions
LAW L810 Negotiable Instruments
LAW L812 Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy
LAW L823 First Amendment
LAW L836 Real Estate Transactions
LAW L842 Courts in a Federal System
LAW L955 Advanced Constitutional Law - 14th Amendment
LAW L980 Income Taxation

Second and Third Year

Second and Third Year

*LAW L770, Lawyering III, offered each year, must be taken by second-year students. The other second-year courses alternate from one year to the next.  Additionally, students are warned that they must have completed this course to participate in clinic.

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2010 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the junior year, whether they have incompletes or not, they must enroll in LCIV L949 Civil Law Bar Exam Preparation I or LCOM L949 Common Law Bar Exam Preparation I in their senior year.

Fourth Year

Civil law students must also take at least one of the four “pool” courses listed below.

Students are cautioned to register for required courses in the years and semesters listed in this bulletin. Failing to do so may create a scheduling conflict in a subsequent semester which could delay graduation.

Part Time Students (Day) 

First Year

*Those students in the bottom quarter of the class after the first semester, whether they have incompletes or not, enroll in LAW L766 Principles of Legal Analysis instead of LAW L765 Lawyering II. Those students enroll in Lawyering II in the second semester of their sophomore year.

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2015 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the first year, the following additional courses are required:
Civil Law
LCIV L935 Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure
LCIV L940 Security Rights

Common Law
LCOM L920 Commercial Transactions
And one of the following courses below:
LCOM L800 Family Law
LCOM L921 Secured Transactions
LAW L810 Negotiable Instruments
LAW L812 Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy
LAW L823 First Amendment
LAW L836 Real Estate Transactions
LAW L842 Courts in a Federal System
LAW L955 Advanced Constitutional Law - 14th Amendment
LAW L980 Income Taxation

The following are suggested schedule for your second and third years of law school.

Second and Third Year

*Students are warned that they must have completed this course to participate in clinic.

Second and Third Year

For those students entering Loyola from the fall of 2010 onward and who are in the bottom quarter of their class after the junior year, whether they have incompletes or not, they must enroll in LCIV L949 Civil Law Bar Exam Preparation I or LCOM L949 Common Law Bar Exam Preparation I in their senior year.

 

Fourth Year

Civil law students must take at least one of the four “pool” courses listed below.

Students are cautioned to register for required courses in the years and semesters listed in this bulletin. Failing to do so may create a scheduling conflict in a subsequent semester which could delay graduation.