 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1929 |  |
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.
These certificates should be forwarded not later than September first.
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. 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.—Subject to regulations below, 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.—A 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, but 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 the
remainder of the session, and the student and his parent or guardian will be so
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. 296.
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 are not permitted to anticipate the courses
of a subsequent year, without urgent reasons satisfactory to the Dean.
14. General Requirements.—Students of the Law School are required to
attend all regular exercises of the classes of which they are members, 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 required practical work,
nor from review quizzes; and the privilege is subject to the control of the professor
in charge of Forensic Debating. 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. A law student, under special circumstances, with the
permission of the Dean, may register in the College Department for a course
not exceeding three hours a week. 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 for good
cause, may leaves be granted in anticipation or extension of holidays.
18. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professor in charge for
Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined,
and detract from his class grade.
19. Special Examinations.—No special examinations are granted, save
in case 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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