 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1928 |  |
GENERAL REGULATIONS
1. Registration of New Students.—Before registration in the Law
School, students who have not before been registered in any department of
the University must produce to the Dean of the Law School (office in Minor
Hall) a proper certificate indicating that entrance requirements have been
fulfilled.
2. Registration Generally.—Students must register in advance (1) at
the office of the Dean of the Law School and (2) at the office of the Registrar
for every course taken, and no credit will be given for work done in
any course without proper registration therefor.
3. Delayed Registration.—Students are not permitted to delay registration
through carelessness or for inadequate reasons. Any student, new or
old, who fails without good cause, to present himself for registration during
the first three days of the session, and between the hours of nine a. m.
and one-thirty p. m. on the first week-day after the Christmas Recess, will be
charged a special registration fee of five dollars.
4. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration no course may
be exchanged or omitted except on the written approval of the professor in
charge and of the Dean.
5. Carrying over Uncompleted Work.—Students who are seriously deficient
in the work of one year will be re-admitted on probation; and where
the Law Faculty deems the deficiency serious enough the student must repeat
the lectures in the courses in which he is deficient. No optional attendance
is permissible in such cases, and only such a limited amount of new
work may be taken as will not conflict with the previously incomplete work.
6. Probation.—Students on probation are not entitled to leaves of absence
except for imperative cause, nor are they permitted to become members
or officials of athletic, musical, debating or other student organizations which
publicly represent the University.
7. Conditions of Readmission.—Any student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations, credit for courses
comprising in the aggregate at least 325 lecture periods, will be excluded
from the Law School the following session, with the privilege of returning,
on conditions, the next session thereafter.
In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 5 foregoing.
8. Invalids.—Students whose condition of health is too precarious to
permit regular attendance upon lectures, but not serious enough to admit
them as patients of the hospital, will be required to withdraw from the University
until able to resume their regular work.
9. First-Year Students.—Failure on the part of any first-year student,
without just cause, to attain, for the first term, an average grade of 75 per
cent. on the daily written quizzes, will place such student on probation for
be so notified. Unless, in the opinion of the Law Faculty, a decided improvement
in the character of his work is indicated at the end of the second term,
his resignation will be required.
10. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit is given for the completion of
any course upon which the student has entered after fifty per centum of the
lectures thereon have been delivered. See requirements for Graduation,
ante, p. 295.
11. Minimum for Which Student Must Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than thirteen
periods per week.
12. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required lectures
on any subject but has failed on the examination, may, with the approval
of the Dean, secure optional attendance on such subjects the following
session, but subject to Regulation 5.
Re-examinations are granted only in this form, or in that designated in
Regulation 20, infra.
13. Advanced Work.—Students of one year are not permitted to anticipate
the courses of a subsequent year, without urgent reasons satisfactory to
the Dean.
14. General Requirements.—Every student of the Law School is required
to attend all regular exercises of the classes of which he is a member,
and to perform all the work assigned, including quizzes and examinations,
unless excused for good cause.
15. Dean's Privileged List.—An average examination grade of ninety
per cent. for the first two years will entitle the student to a place on the
"Dean's List," which carries with it special privileges with respect to absences
from lectures. The privilege will not exempt students from any required
practical work, or review quizzes, and is subject to the control of
the professors in charge of Forensic Debating and Draughting. The Dean
may revoke the privilege if abused.
16. Extra-Curriculum Activities—Reports to the Dean.—Students of the
Law School who propose to become members or officials of athletic, musical,
debating or other student organizations which publicly represent the University,
or who propose to devote a material portion of their time to work
outside the Law School, are required to report their names and proposed
activities at the Dean's office for official approval. In no case will such approval
be given to a student on probation. See Regulation 6 foregoing.
17. Absence from the University is permitted on the written leave of
the Dean of the Law School. But leaves of absence for the purpose of accompanying
the athletic teams or musical clubs on excursions will not be
granted, except to the officers and members of the organization. Nor, except
holidays.
18. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors for sickness
or other imperative cause. Such excuses must be rendered promptly.
Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined.
19. Special Examinations.—No special examinations are granted, save
in cases of sickness on the day of examination (attested by physician's certificate),
or for other imperative cause approved by the Law Faculty. In no
case will such examination be granted unless prompt application be made
therefor.
20. Third Year Students—Incomplete Work.—A candidate for the degree
who in his third year is found deficient in one or more subjects, may return
the following session and, without further attendance upon lectures,
stand the regular examinations on such of his uncompleted subjects as the
Dean and the professor or professors in charge may approve. But this privilege
may be exercised but once—that is to say, after a second failure the
candidate must take the lectures over again, on the subject or subjects on
which he has for a second time proved deficient. In exceptional cases and
for good cause this privilege may be extended to the student of any year. See
Regulation 12.
21. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the preceding regulation is $5 for each examination taken.
Students, who, under such circumstances, return for further lectures, and
who have paid full matriculation and tuition fees for three years, pay a
matriculation fee in proportion to the amount of work taken plus $5 for each
course.
There is no charge for special examinations granted for imperative cause.
22. Application for Degree.—Candidates for graduation are required to
file a written application with the Dean, not later than November 15 of their
third year, indicating the courses completed, together with a schedule of the
courses to be pursued during their final year. Blanks for this purpose will
be supplied at the Dean's office.
23. Required Withdrawal.—The right is reserved to require the withdrawal
of any student who, in the opinion of the faculty, is not profiting nor
likely to profit by the instruction offered; or whose neglect or irregular performance
of required duties, after admonition, indicates indifference or contumacy;
or whose character or habits are a menace to the good order of the
Law School.
24. Honor System.—All quizzes and examinations are conducted under
the Honor System.
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