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Registration and Course Information

Registration and preregistration are conducted in accordance with the Law School calendar. Generally, preregistration is held in October for the upcoming Spring semester, in April for the upcoming Fall semester, and in late March for the June Term. It is at preregistration that students make their course selection. Registration is commonly conducted during the first week of the semester. Students who fail to adhere to announced preregistration and registration schedules may be subject to penalty. Preregistration course selections may be canceled for those students who fail to register during the times set for registration. Students should notify the Registrar's Office in advance if they are unable to register on time. No student is allowed to register for any semester more than one week after that semester has begun. Registration and preregistration may be blocked until all appropriate forms have been submitted to the Registrar's Office, all fines and indebtedness to the University (and the UConn Co-operative Bookstore) have been liquidated, and all tuition and fees for the coming semester have been paid in full.

Academic Credit Load

	3 Year Day Division Students	4 Year Day Division Students	Evening Division Students
Maximum Number of Credits Permitted during Fall or Spring Semester	16 at the Time of Registration 19 at Add/Drop	11 at the Time of Registration 14 at Add/Drop	11 at the Time of Reregistration 14 at Add/Drop
Overload	17	12	12
Underload	11 Credits and Under	7 Credits and Under	7 Credits and Under

The office of the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration can only approve overload requests for students in the top three quintiles. Students in the fourth or fifth quintiles must obtain the permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

The ABA Rules stipulate: "A student may not be employed more than 20 hours per week in any week in which the student is enrolled in more than 12 class hours". This means students working more than 20 hours per week are not permitted to take more than 12 credits in any semester. The law school presumes that part time students will work more than 20 hours per week; that presumption underlies the limit of overload credits for part time students. Students who are enrolled part time and work less than 20 hours per week can requests overloads under the full time limits, however, they must make their work situation clear in the Reasons For Overload/ Underload Section of the request form. As credit overload, and in fact any deviation from the prescribed curriculum, is not under most circumstances permitted by first year students, requests of this nature by first year students will not be granted. Only exceptions for underload requests and requests under ADA Accommodation guidelines will be considered by the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration.

Any student may register for a maximum of 7 credits during any one summer session. A student may register for a maximum of 10 credits during the summer term. Any additional credits are to be considered an overload and students must obtain approval by the associate dean for finance and administration prior to the start classes.

Course Selection

Course selection is done on line via the student administration system. All students are given login ids and initial passwords from the Office of the Registrar during their first semester of study. While the Registrar's staff will conduct sessions on the use of the student administration system, we are happy to answer any of your questions individually. A how to use the system guide is also available.

Registration Priority System: Policy and Procedure

Students select courses according to a modified version of year/division priority. To allow all students an opportunity to select desired courses, students are assigned multiple enrollment appointments (these are times in which a student may access the student administration system to select courses) with course limitations in each appointment. Within each appointment time, priority is on a first come/first served basis.

After this five-day registration priority period, enrollment is open. Students may add and drop courses at any time through the first week of classes the following semester. (LL.M/Exchange students may make course changes through the second week of classes the following semester). 1L students may not make any changes to their schedules once their courses are initially chosen.

During the priority and open registration periods, a waiting list is maintained for all courses that reach their enrollment limit. Students are given the option of adding themselves to waiting lists at the time of on line enrollment. As space becomes available, students are automatically enrolled from the waiting list into the course. This is not accompanied by notification from the Registrar's office unless the addition of the course creates a scheduling difficulty (i.e. time conflict, overload), thus students are strongly encouraged to check their schedule of classes frequently to verify their course enrollment status.

Additionally, to give priority to evening students for evening courses, a certain number of seats have been set aside during the priority registration period for evening students in evening courses. For elective courses taught in both the evening division and the day division in an academic year, 50% of the places in each evening division course are allocated to evening division students who have the same registration priority as competing day division students. For courses taught in the evening division but not in the day division in that academic year, 25% of the places in each course are allocated to evening division students who have the same registration priority as competing day division students. Day division students who have the same registration priority may register for places allocated to evening division students but not claimed by an evening division student.

All schedule adjustments must be made by the completion of the first week of classes the following semester (second week for LL.M/Exchange Students). Adjustments after this time will involve instructor, associate dean, and/or petitions committee approval and may involve sanctions levied against a student (i.e. loss of a priority enrollment appointment the following semester).

Questions regarding the Registration Priority System should be directed to the Office of the Registrar.

Course conflicts

Students are prohibited from selecting courses for which class session times conflict or overlap. Any student who registers for a schedule of classes which contains a conflict or overlap in class meeting times is required to withdraw from as many courses as are necessary to eliminate all conflicts or overlaps in his/her class schedule. Such student should select which course or courses to withdraw from for this purpose, if the student does not, this decision will be made administratively.

Prerequisites and pre/corequisites

Some courses have designated prerequisites or pre/corequisites. A prerequisite is a course that must be successfully completed before a second course may be taken. A pre/corequisite may be taken prior to, or concurrently with, the course for which it is required. For year-long courses and clinics, any pre/corequisite must be completed by the end of the first semester. When registering for a course with a prerequisite, students must actively ensure that they satisfy the requirement prior to commencement of the course. When registering for a course with a pre/corequisite, students must actively ensure that they either satisfy the requirement prior to commencement of the course or take the requirement at the same time as the course. The electronic registration system will neither register students automatically in pre/corequisite courses nor lock them out of courses for which a prerequisite has not been satisfied. Students who fail to satisfy a prerequisite or pre/corequisite for a course will be required to drop that course. Any prerequisite or pre/corequisite may be waived with permission of the instructor.

Adding/Dropping courses

Courses, Seminars, Clinics

Students are expected to have made their course selections and to have settled on a final schedule by the end of the first week of each semester. Changes in a student's schedule after that time will be permitted only under a limited set of circumstances.

• Students may be required to withdraw from a course in the event of an overlap or conflict, as described above.
• During the period after the add/drop deadline but still within the first six weeks of the semester, students may add a course or drop a non-required course, provided that for both adds and drops the course is not fully subscribed (i.e., is not a "closed" course), only for good cause shown and only with the permission of the instructor and the permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

To add or drop any closed course after the add/drop period, the approval of the Petitions Committee is required. Adding or dropping any course after the sixth week of the semester requires the approval of the Petitions Committee. If such a request is granted, the Petitions Committee can request that a student lose one RP (registration priority) for the following semester.

June Term/July Courses: Students may add courses provided that no more than one class meeting has been missed. Students may drop courses (with the exception of Moot Court) through and including the sixth class meeting.

To add or drop a course, a student should complete the necessary forms at the Registrar's Office. All petitions and requests to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for late adds or drops must indicate the view of the instructor. No late adds will be approved without the instructor's approval.

Any student who fails to comply with this policy should be prepared to take the final examination or otherwise satisfy the course requirements in all courses for which he or she is registered.

Deadline for LL.M. Students

The add/drop period for students in the LL.M. programs extends one week beyond the period for Juris Doctor students with the following exceptions: students are permitted to add or drop only those courses that remain open. LL.M. students may not drop a closed course after the add/drop period adhered to by Juris Doctor students.

Special Research Projects and Individual Externships

Special research projects and individual externships should be added no later than the end of the second week of the semester, and no later than the second class day of the June Term for summer projects. In order to add a special research project or individual externship, a student should submit the appropriate application form, complete with the necessary signatures, to the Registrar's Office. Late applications are permitted only with the permission of the Petitions Committee.

A special research project or individual externship may be dropped at any time during the semester. All part-time students (including Evening Division students) should note that, if they are petitioning to drop credits after the end of the add/drop period in order to add a special research project, the credits should be dropped before the end of the add period (or before the end of the second June Term class). Credits dropped after the end of the add period are added to the semester's final credit load for billing purposes.

Auditing courses

Students enrolled as candidates for degrees may audit courses with the advance consent of the instructor and the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration or the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. No formal registration is required, and no record of the audit is made on the transcript.

Class Attendance

Regular class attendance is expected. Under the Standards of the American Bar Association for the Approval of Law Schools, regular and punctual class attendance is necessary to satisfy residence and class-hour requirements. In cases of excessive absence, the instructor may deny course credit. However, the instructor does not have the right to give a student an "F" for excessive absences.

Upon timely notice, instructors may require attendance at regular or specially-called classes or relevant lectures, conferences and similar sessions.