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A full time student may take up to 16 credit hours per summer.
Part time may take up to 12 credit hours per summer.
A student MUST take 4 credit hours to be eligible for Financial Aid.
May 25– Please note that there will be no classes on Monday, May 25 2009.
SUMMER INTENSIVE COURSES: Twelve intensive courses will be offered this summer:
- Adoption Law (2cr)
- Business Negotiation (2cr)
- Dispute Resolution (2cr)
- Divorce Mediation (3cr)
- Electronic Legal Research (1 cr)
- General Arbitration (2cr)
- Health Care and Dispute Resolution (2cr)
- Interdisciplinary Child Welfare (2cr)
- International Human Rights (2cr)
- Labor and Employment Arbitration (2cr)
- Mediation (2cr)
- Multidisciplinary Dispute Resolution (2 cr)
- Negotiation (2cr)
COURSE ENROLLMENT CAPACITY:
- Mediation, Negotiation, Dispute Resolution and Divorce Mediation is limited to 30 students.
- Appellate Advocacy is limited to 18 students.
- Electronic Legal Research is limited to 20 students.
- Interdisciplinary Child Welfare is limited to 5 students, must complete application.
- Litigation Clinic is limited to 20 students.
- Legal Drafting Practicum is limited to 20 students (2 sections available).
- Mediation Clinic only meets once for an initial orientation session and is limited to 7 students.
- Trial Advocacy Practicum is limited to 16 students.
Any other class with fewer than 10 students enrolled will be cancelled.
ELECTRONIC LEGAL RESEARCH: The Electronic Legal Research is an intensive course that meets the Saturday and Sunday before the semester begins. Attendance at every class for the full duration of class is mandatory. Class preparation is required for each day. A research pathfinder paper will be due in June. The last day to drop Electronic Legal Research and receive a refund is Friday, May 15, 2009. No exceptions to this policy!
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT: Significant research paper or an independent research project under the guidance of a member of the full-time Faculty. A student may not register for independent research until the student provides a written proposal, tentative outline, and tentative hypothesis accepted by a full time faculty member. A student may not register for more than one independent research project in a semester, or for more than six total hours of independent research credit, without the approval of the Associate Dean. Independent Research may be used to satisfy the Upper-class Writing Requirement.
LITIGATION CLINIC: All students who take litigation clinic may register for 2 or 3 credit hours. If you wish to register for more than 3 hours, you must get permission from Professor Danny Bank or Professor Lori McCaughan. Bring your Change of Registration form signed by the Professor to the Office of Records & Registration and the office will make the change. The Litigation Clinic requires a valid Ohio Intern's License (see instructions below). Students admitted prior to fall 2006 must have completed 58 credit hours (including Evidence) to be certified as eligible. Students admitted fall 2006 or after must have completed 60 credit hours in order to be eligible for a valid Ohio Intern’s License. PLEASE NOTE: Clinic will meet for the first regularly scheduled class. Beginning the next day, for seven (7) consecutive days, the class will meet from 7:30 am to 9:00 am (excluding weekends and holidays). These classes are mandatory. Thereafter, Clinic will meet approximately seven (7) additional times at the regularly scheduled day and time.
MEDIATION CLINIC (3 credits): A clinical experience for students who have already completed the Mediation course as a prerequisite. Students will complete "some" classroom work, but they will spend the majority of time mediating disputes in a variety of settings. S tudents will conduct and/or observe pre-scheduled mediation sessions at the Franklin County Municipal Court, the City Prosecutor’s Office, and The Supreme Court of Ohio. Mediations may be scheduled during the day time or evening hours and may require attendance at different locations. The classroom work involving general skills training in the techniques needed to conduct a mediation. Additional training and classroom work will focus on subject areas that will assist the student in performing his/her role as a mediator. There is "no" regular class time set for this course. “Classroom” sessions will be scheduled based on student availability. NOTE: Each student will have a different “mediation” schedule that she/he will specifically coordinate with the professor. This schedule can be a set time for the entire semester, or it change from week to week as the professor and student determine. There is a lot of flexibility in determining this schedule. After completing the Mediation Clinic for 3 credit hours, students may petition to take an additional semester of Mediation Clinic for 1, 2 or 3 credits hours
OHIO INTERNS’ LICENSE: Students needing an Ohio Interns License for a job or externship who began law school before 2006 need to have EARNED 58 hours prior to applying for the license (if you need 86 hours to graduate). If you began in 2006 or later, you need to have EARNED 60 credit hours (if you need 89 hours to graduate). There are NO exceptions for this requirement.
VARIABLE CREDIT COURSES: If you are planning to take one of the courses below, please make sure you affirmatively choose the number of credit hours you plan to take. Each default to a specific number (listed below). If you do not change it to a different number, you will be registered for the default number.
- Externships – 2 credits is the default. If you wish to register for 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
- General Litigation Clinic – 2 credits is the default. If you wish to register for 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
- Independent Research – 1 credit is the default. If you wish to register for 2 or 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
