Greetings. As you know, registration for the Spring 2009 Term is approaching early next week.
By now, you will have been assigned a specific Web Enrollment time by the University Registrar. You are responsible for being aware of the important information below. Please read carefully.
(1) The Process. Web Enrollment for 3Ls will commence on
Monday, November 10th. Any 3L who does not register on that date
will be competing for courses with 2Ls. Web Enrollment for 2Ls will
commence on Tuesday, November 11th.
(2) The on-line Spring 2009 Course Schedule is available at:
http://courses.law.wisc.edu/.
(Click on "Spring 2009 Course Schedule"). If you need to
re-acquaint yourself with how the read the on-line course schedule,
please refer to Section 2.4 of Read This First.
(3) Additional courses & course details: If additional
courses are added, e-mail advisories will follow. Changes with
respect to details of courses already listed will appear highlighted in
yellow in the on-line course schedule. Information posted about
particular courses is as accurate as possible. However, you
should remember to verify certain details important to you (such as
grading, exams, or the availability of Pass-Fail) with the instructor
when the class first meets at the start of the new term.
(4) Courses that reach enrollment capacity: As courses
become filled, I will be trying add more seats (for instance, by
switching assigned rooms if possible). There is no need to
contact me to advise that a course is full. In this regard,
please keep in mind: (a) the Law School does not maintain
"wait lists" (see Read This First sec. 2.3.4); and (b)
some course enrollments are purposefully kept low by the
instructor.
(5) "Consent of Instructor" courses. The on-line
Spring 2009 Course Schedule indicates, among other things, which courses
require "Consent of Instructor." If you desire to take
one or more of these courses, you should contact the instructor
concerned. The instructors will make a list of approved students
and forward same to the Law School Office, which will enter registration
authorizations; approved students will then be contacted by e-mail and
informed they may then register for the course.
(7) The Required Courses. Just to re-iterate what is already
on the on-line schedule (in the "Notes" column), the following
courses in the following areas required for either Diploma Privilege or
graduation, are being offered in Spring 2009 for 2Ls and 3Ls.
Professional Responsibility Requirement
Professional Responsibility sec. 1 [Kaiser]
Professional Responsibility sec. 2 [Kaiser]
Professional Responsibility [Streit]
Professional Responsibility [Schweitzer]
Constitutional Law I Requirement:
[Note: Con Law I is unlikely to be offered in Fall 2009; December 2009 grads should take this course in Spring 2009. Con Law I is now a spring-only course]
Constitutional Law I [Church] (limit 15 2Ls/3Ls)
Constitutional Law I [Althouse] (limit 10 2Ls/3Ls)
Constitutional Law I [Snyder] (limit 15 2Ls/3Ls)
Constitutional Law I [Weston] (limit 15 2Ls/3Ls)
Constitutional Law II Requirement
Constitutional Law II [Althouse]
SP Con Law: 1st Amendment [Desai]
SP Con Law: Politics & Equality [Greene]
SP Con Law: Supreme Court Seminar [Church/Paff]
SP Con Law: 4th, 5th, 6th Amendments [Justice Butler]
SP Con Law: 4th, 5th, 6th Amendments [Strang]
Wills & Estates Requirement
Trusts & Estates [Erlanger/Katele]
Evidence Requirement
Evidence [Strang] (limit 50 students)
Evidence [Schwartz]
[Note: students taking Prof Schwartz's Evidence section are especially encouraged, although not required, to enroll in one of three Trial Ad sections (Knutson; Schwartz; Hurley); the Trial Ad topics will "tie-in" with those covered in the Evidence section.]
Jurisdiction of Courts Requirement
Civil Procedure II [Greene]
Civil Procedure II [Weston]
Federal Jurisdiction [Coan]
Legal Process Requirement
[Note: Administrative Law, International Business Transactions, and International Tax now meet the Legal Process requirement; this applies retroactively if you already took one of these courses.]
Administrative Law [Ohnesorge]
L&CP: Sociology of Law [Macaulay]
L&CP: Chinese Law Seminar [Ohnesorge]
L&CP: Community Economic Development Law [Alexander]
Advanced Federal Law & Indian Tribes [Monette]
International Business Transactions [Yackee]
International Tax [Christians]
International Law [Huneeus] (Note: International Law (a 1L Elective) is currently closed; although some 2Ls/3Ls may be allowed in eventually --once all interested 1Ls have been accommodated; please wait for an early-December update re enrollment in International Law.)
(7) Final Exams. Final Exam dates (if applicable) will shortly be indicated in the Notes column if the course is currently scheduled for an in-school, proctored Final Exam (as opposed to a Take-Home Exam or Paper, etc).
(8) First-year Spring-term Courses. Part-time & transfer
students, take note! If you still need to take a Spring-term 1L
course (Property or Introduction to Criminal Procedure) in the Spring
2009 term, take a look on-line at the sections that will be
offered. You may e-mail your choice to Jane Ford Bennett at
jmford@wisc.edu. If you still need to take Legal Research &
Writing II, e-mail Mary Ann Polewski at polewski@wisc.edu.
(9) Credit-load limitation. Remember that students are
subject to an absolute limitation of 18 credits per semester.
(10) Need advice to help you select your courses? See the
Curriculum Guide at
http://www.law.wisc.edu/current/selectingcourses.htm . The Guide gives you basic principles for selecting courses, different approaches to selecting upper-level courses, and also provides curriculum guides for specific areas of practice that describe academic programs for some practice areas.
(11) Curricular Areas of Concentration. Links to information about four curricular concentrations (Criminal Law, Family Law, International Law, Labor & Employment Law, Estate Planning) appear at http://courses.law.wisc.edu/ .
(12) Miscellaneous. Once you have registered, please do not rely on any University-provided listing of course times, etc., that happen to conflict with those on the Law School's on-line schedule. When in doubt, rely on the Law School's schedule, which is kept constantly up-to-date. If you find that the University database has different information than the Law School's on-line course information, please inform Jane Ford Bennett at jmford@wisc.edu.
Finally, please remember that Read This First! contains a wealth of
information about the Law School's curriculum and registration process
(in Chapter 2) and the graduation and bar admission requirements
(Chapter 4).
Thank you.
K. M. Kelly
Assistant Dean (Curriculum)
Submitted by Kevin Kelly on November 14, 2008
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