UNIVERSITY CREIGHTON SCHOOL OF LAW FALL 2007 REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS REGISTRATION INFORMATION
1. This packet contains instructions and other information to assist you in registering for classes in
Fall 2007. After some basic instructions about the registration process and course selection, you will find specific instructions for registering on the web. Other information in this packet includes the Fall 2007 Semester and Spring 2008 Semester class and exam schedules, a course selection guide, a classhour planning form, information on internships, and a copy of the 20072008 Academic Calendar. The Areas of Concentration information is currently being revised. Within the next couple of weeks, you will receive a revised copy in your student mailbox and it will also be posted on the Law School website. It is important that you check your Creighton email account on a regular basis. Email is the main source of communication for essential information coming from the Law School Administration, Faculty and Staff, and student organizations. Course descriptions and information about course selection are also found on the Creighton Law School website at: law.creighton.edu under the menu for Academics. The course schedules provided with this packet reflect our prediction of course offerings, instructors, and times. However, this information is subject to change. The Spring 2008 Semester class schedule is provided to help you select the courses you want to take in the Fall. As you will note, some courses are offered in both semesters. In planning your schedule for Fall 2007, please note the following:
Unless a deferral has been granted by the Dean's office, all second year students must complete the following upperclass courses: Business Associations, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills II, Professional Responsibility, Secured Transactions, and Trusts and Estates I. Enrollment in these courses will normally occur during the second year of law school. However, to the extent that these courses may be offered during the Summer Session, enrollment in the summer before the second year is also allowed. (Please refer to the attached form with regard to deferring second year required courses.) Second year students are required to register for Evidence and Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills II in the Fall semester, and Criminal Procedure in the Spring semester. Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, Secured Transactions, and Trusts and Estates I may be taken in either the Fall or Spring semesters. Second year students should plan to enroll in all of these courses during the 20072008 Academic Year unless they are completed during the summer or a deferral has been granted.
Nonprofit Corporations is a new course taught by Steve Virgil. This course will be offered for two credit hours on Mondays from 2:154:15 p.m. A course description is available on the law school website. This course will be a corequisite for the Fall Semester Community Economic Development Clinic. Interested students should register by submitting an index card to Sandy Murnan by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 2. Prosecution of Criminal Cases is a new course taught by Sandi Denton from the Douglas County Attorney's Office. Ms. Denton has experience in numerous divisions in prosecution including the felony, juvenile and civil divisions. This course will be offered for two credit hours on Wednesdays from 6:008:00 p.m. A course description is available on the law school website.
Other courses are similarly important in this regard; please consult the attached "Course Selection Guide" for further information.
The Law School welcomes two new faculty members beginning this Fall Semester. Professor Palma Strand has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Strand previously clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court. She most recently has been an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and previously was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. Professor Strand will teach Trusts and Estates I, Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on Civic Organizing and Democracy. Professor Sean Watts has a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado, a J.D. from William & Mary School of Law, and an LL.M. from The Judge Advocate General's School. Professor Watts most recently has taught as an Associate Professor of International Law at The Judge Advocate General's School and has been a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Watts served as a Judge Advocate General in the United States Army from 19992007. Professor Watts will teach Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, and PostConviction Relief. Please read these instructions, review the other material, and then complete your registration on the web . The web registration period for third year law students will begin on Wednesday, April 11, at 4:00 p.m., and the second year registration time will begin on Thursday, April 12, at 4:00 p.m. Specific instructions for registering on the web will be available from the Law School receptionist beginning Thursday, April 5. Be advised that any delay in registering may affect your ability to sign up for courses with limited enrollments. Registration for some frequently overenrolled courses will not be available on the web. You will use the 3 x 5 cards provided in this packet to register for those courses. (See item #5 below.) If you have any questions or want guidance in completing your preregistration, please feel free to contact a law school dean or professor. 2. In the Fall 2007 Semester, second year students must register for Evidence and Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills II. Students will register for Evidence on the web, and section preference will be honored subject to limits on space and enrollment. If these limitations preclude you from getting into your first preference, you will need to register for your second choice in Evidence. (You have the option of registering for Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, Secured Transactions, and Trusts and Estates I in either the Fall 2007 or Spring 2008 Semesters.) We will assign your Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills II section for you. All second year students must take Legal Writing II in the Fall Semester. No deferrals for this course will be granted. Legal Writing II will be taught in large sections at the 9:05 class hour for A and the 12:45 hour for B and in additional small section groups on Thursday afternoons. Thirtytwo students will be selected to participate in a pilot program in Sections C and D. A single instructor will teach all aspects of this course; no separate small section will be assigned for these students. Sections C and D will meet late afternoons /early evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays (see page six of these instructions for specifics). All sections will also meet occasionally on Friday afternoons for demonstration events. If child care or family commitments create a hardship attending evening meeting times, please submit a request to be excluded from sections meeting at such times to Sandy Murnan by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5. We will try to accommodate those requests. After section assignments are determined, the Law School will make sure your Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills II section is posted on your web registration. (Section assignments will be posted on your web registration in early June.) Small group meeting times for Sections A and B will be posted after classes begin in August. 3. Please note that in the Fall 2007 Semester, morning classes will begin at 7:30, 8:00, 9:05, and 10:35; afternoon classes will begin at 12:45, 2:15, 3:45, and selected later times. Also note that some classes may run for more than 55 minutes on each class meeting day. Please study the class
schedule to avoid time conflicts. You may not register for two courses that meet during the same time on any day of the week. 4. You may not reschedule exams unless you have two exams on the same day. If you elect courses with exams scheduled on the same day, you will need to reschedule one of those exams for a later time. We will determine which exam will be rescheduled. If you have questions, ask Dean Sharrar or Sandy Murnan. Courses not listed on the exam schedule are currently designed to require papers, takehome exams, or other alternative methods of evaluation. See the course description or contact the professor for further details as to the method of evaluation that will be used in the course. Some courses have limited enrollment. The web registration process cannot keep wait lists, and in order to accommodate as many students as possible in typically overenrolled classes, the courses discussed below will not be available for registration on the web. A separate lottery will be conducted to determine rosters for these courses. In order to be put into the lottery for the following courses, you must complete 3 x 5 index card(s) as indicated below and return those card(s) to Sandy Murnan in the Administrative Suite by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 2. Cards received after April 2 will not be included in the lottery. Requests for internships will also be due to Sandy by 4:00 p.m. on April 2. Rosters for these courses (with the exception of the internships) will be posted on the main bulletin board and on the selected student web registration screens by Thursday, April 5. Thirdyear students will be given preference in their course selection to the extent possible. IF YOU WANT TO TAKE OF ANY THE FOLLOWING LOTTERY COURSES, PLEASE FILL OUT A SEPARATE 3 x 5 INDEX CARD FOR EACH COURSE WITH YOUR NAME AND YEAR ON IT. Alternate Dispute Resolution Community Economic Development Clinic* Legal Interviewing, Negotiation and Counseling Mediation Seminar Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic* Negotiations** Nonprofit Corporations Scientific Evidence Witness Examination Skills *There will be an open house in the Clinic for interested students on Wednesday, March 28, from 11:40 a.m.1:00 p.m. **A student who has taken /is taking Legal Interviewing, Negotiations, and Counseling may not enroll in this course. IF YOU WANT TO TAKE TRIAL PRACTICE, fill out a separate 3 x 5 index card with your name and year on it. Indicate your first and second section preferences on the index card. You will be a candidate for only those Trial Practice sections you list on your card. IF YOU WANT TO TAKE AN INTERNSHIP, review the internship information included with this packet. If you complete the internship preference form, please make sure to write your email address on the form as well. Check your email on a regular basis as Professor Gaskins may need to contact you when she is making the internship selections. If you have questions about any of the internship placements, please contact Professor Gaskins (telephone: [phone]; email: [e-mail] ). 6. 7. After your initial registration session, you may make changes in your course selections if space is available. See DROP AND ADD below. Registration for Fall courses will facilitate timely disbursement of Fall financial aid.
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DROP AND ADD
You may drop or add the courses available for registration on the web by returning to the web site at any time up through Friday, August 10, 2007. Follow the necessary steps as directed. After August 10, you must see Sandy Murnan to drop or add these courses. If you wish to drop a course in which you were registered through the lottery, please see Sandy as soon as possible so that the next alternate can be notified in a timely manner. Unless you are in violation of the attendance rule for the course, you may drop any elective course, other than those listed below, until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 30. Drops after Tuesday, September 4, will be considered "withdrawals" and will appear on your transcript. You may not drop Advanced Legal Writing and Drafting, Alternate Dispute Resolution, Community Economic Development Clinic, Internships, LINC, Mediation Seminar, Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic, Negotiations, Nonprofit Corporations, Scientific Evidence, Trial Practice, or Witness Examination Skills after Monday, August 27. You may not drop an upperclass required course without permission from the Dean's office. Courses, other than seminars and internships, which are not overenrolled, may be added until 4:00 p.m. on August 27. With the professor's permission, seminars and internships which are not overenrolled may be added until 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4. With the professor's permission, you may change your registration in a course, other than a required course, lottery class, seminar, internship or Trial Practice, to an "audit" up until Friday, November 30. If you audit a course, you do not receive credit, and you may not retake the course for credit. Audit slips are available from Sandy Murnan.
FALL CLASSES
The first day of classes for the Fall 2007 Semester will be Monday, August 20. The academic calendar is posted on the web and is included with these registration materials.
You will receive a tuition statement for the Fall 2007 Semester and if you prepay tuition, it will not be necessary for you to go to the Business Office.
ELECTIVES
The elective courses listed below will be offered in the Fall 2007 Semester. Some of these electives may not be available to you because they have prerequisites. The prerequisites are indicated by endnote. To the extent the prerequisites listed here are different than those listed on the web site, those listed by endnote here prevail. Please be sure that you have taken the prerequisites for any course you select. NOTE: If you wish to register for any of the courses that have no CRN numbers indicated, you must complete 3 x 5 index cards and return them to Sandy by Monday, April 2. Internship preference forms are also due by 4:00 p.m. on April 2. Each fulltime student must register for at least 10 hours and may not register for more than 17 hours without permission from Dean Sharrar.
+Will most likely be offered in both the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Semesters. Will be offered in Fall 2007 Semester only. #May not be offered in the 20082009 Academic Year. CRN # 71536 71537 72255 71538 72256 71539 COURSE Advanced Constitutional Law (MW @ 12:452:05 p.m.)
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SEM. HRS. 3 3 2 3 4 4 3 2
Advanced Legal Writing and Drafting *2 (W @ 2:155:20 p.m.) +Alternate Dispute Resolution (W @ 4:006:00 p.m.) Banking Law and Regulation *3 (TTh @ 9:0510:25 a.m.) +Business Associations A (Morse) (MWF @ 9:0510:25 a.m.) +Business Associations B (Aronson) (MWF @ 9:0510:25 a.m.) Civil Rights Law (TTh @ 12:452:05 p.m.) +Community Economic Development Clinic *4 (F @ 12:451:40 p.m.) (Corequisite: Nonprofit Corporations) Comparative Corporate Governance (TTh @ 10:3511:30 a.m.) +Criminal Law (MW @ 2:153:35 p.m.) Debtor Creditor Relations *5 (MWF @ 10:3511:30 a.m.) +Defense of Criminal Cases *6 (M @ 5:307:30 p.m.) Elder Law (TTh @ 3:455:05 p.m.) Environmental and Natural Resources Law (MWF @ 12:452:05 p.m.) Estate and Gift Taxation *7 (MW @ 12:452:05 p.m.) Evidence A (Mangrum) (MWF @ 8:008:55 a.m.) Evidence B (Melilli)
72259 72260 72261 71540 73059 71541 71542 71543 71544
2 3 3 2 3 4 3 3 3
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COURSE (MWF @ 10:3511:30 a.m.)
SEM. HRS.
71546 71547 73078 71548 71549 73082 71550 73085 71551 71552 71553
+Federal Income Taxation (TTh @ 9:0510:25 a.m.) Financial Statement Analysis *8 (TTh @ 8:008:55 a.m.) First Amendment Freedom of Speech *1 (TTh @ 9:0510:00 a.m.) Health Care Law (TTh @ 12:451:40 p.m.) Insurance (TTh @ 2:153:35 p.m.) #International Criminal Law (W @ 3:455:45 p.m.) International Law (TTh @ 3:455:05 p.m.) International Trade Regulation (MW @ 2:153:35...