University of Virginia Library

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.

President of the University.

WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL.D.

Dean of the Department of Law.

             

WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL.B., LL.D	James Madison Professor of Law
ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D	Professor of Law
GEORGE BOARDMAN EAGER, Jr., B.A., LL.B	Professor of Law
FREDERICK DEANE GOODWIN RIBBLE, M.A., LL.B	Professor of Law
GARRARD GLENN, B.A., LL.B	Professor of Law
CHARLES PATTERSON NASH, Jr., B.S., LL.B	Associate Professor of Law
LESLIE HEPBURN BUCKLER, B.A., M.A	Associate Professor of Law

                     

Raymond Lavillon Jackson, B.S., LL.B	Assistant
Charles Gibbs Dougherty, B.S.	Student Assistant
Norman West Harris, B.S.	Student Assistant
Frederick Lane Hoback, M.A.	Student Assistant
William Montelle Hobson, B.S.	Student Assistant
Harry Clabaugh Lamberton, B.A.	Student Assistant
William Hutchings Overbey, B.S.	Student Assistant
Marian Huddlestun Angell	Secretary to the Dean
Catherine Lipop Graves	Law Librarian
Nellie Wingfield Smith	Assistant Law Librarian
Howard Cecil Gilmer, B.A.	Student Assistant Law Librarian

Inquiries with reference to Entrance Requirements or other particulars
respecting the Law School should be addressed to the Dean of the Department
of Law.

For information as to lodging, board, etc., address the Bursar.

For information with respect to courses or credits in the College Department,
address the Dean of the University.

For information with respect to self-help, address the Chairman of the
Faculty Committee on Student Self-Help.

The Post Office address of the University is "University, Virginia," and
not Charlottesville. Mail addressed to Charlottesville is delayed in delivery.

Historical.—Among the original Schools contemplated in Mr. Jefferson's
plan for the organization of the University of Virginia was "Law: Municipal
and Foreign Embracing the General Principles, Theory and Practice of Jurisprudence,
together with the Theory and Principles of Constitutional Government."
Accordingly the School of Law was established in 1826, and has been an integral
part of the University from its foundation.

The aim of the Department of Law has been, from earliest days, to maintain
a high standard as a requirement for graduation—the degree being conferred
only upon such students as have satisfactorily completed the prescribed
course of study according to traditionally rigid standards. This
policy has been uniformly enforced, and its wisdom has been vindicated by the
high position which the graduates of the Law School are accustomed to attain
at the bar and in public life. The course of instruction has been extended
from time to time to conform to economic conditions and to meet the increasing
demands of the profession.

Minor Hall.—The Law School is accommodated in its own building,
designated as Minor Hall, in honor of the late John B. Minor, whose distinguished
service of fifty years as a professor in the Law School, the University
thus commemorates. There are on the first floor four lecture halls, administrative
offices, lavatories, etc., and on the second floor a stack room with ample
space for books, two commodious reading rooms, and a number of offices for
the use of the librarian and the teaching staff.

Law Library.—The Library contains more than twenty-three thousand
volumes. Its financial resources, from appropriations by the Visitors, and
from special endowments, make possible substantial additions annually The
Library contains the English Reports, practically complete, from and including
the Year Books to date; the Canadian and Australian Reports; the
United States Supreme Court Reports; reports of all the American States
in official or unofficial form; the National Reporter System, complete; selected
and annotated reports, together with modern searchbooks in the form of general
Digests, and the leading Encyclopedias, besides a large collection of textbooks,
and bound volumes of law journals. Practically all the current American legal
periodicals are received, and bound volumes of these are on the shelves.

Virginia Law Review.—Under the title of the Virginia Law Review, the
undergraduate students of the Law School conduct a law journal devoted to
the discussion of general questions of American jurisprudence. Eight numbers
are issued annually, from November to June, inclusive. The Review is
now in its seventeenth volume. From its inception it has maintained a high
standard of excellence, and a worthy rank among the leading law journals
of the country. Adequate quarters adjoining the library are provided for
the accommodation of the editorial and business staff.

The Law School is a member of the Association of American Law
Schools; is registered by the Regents of the University of the State of New
York as meeting the requirements for admission to the bar in that State;
and is on the approved list of the American Bar Association.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Session begins on the Thursday preceding the nineteenth of September,
and continues for thirty-nine weeks, ending about June 15. The first
three days of the session are given to registration, and all students, both old
and new, are required during that time to place their names upon the books
of the University and the rolls of their respective classes. Lecture courses
begin on the Monday following, and absences will be recorded against any
student not present, from the opening lecture of each course. Students entering
after the first three days, without satisfactory excuse, will be charged a
fee for registration.

The session is divided into Three Terms. The first term ends December
19; the second, March 26; and the third, with the close of the session.

Late Entrance.—Students are advised that late entrance upon the work of
any term is a serious hindrance to progress. The student who enters late must
begin his work at the point to which the several courses have advanced at
the time of his entrance; and credit for three years' attendance cannot be
secured unless the student is in actual residence at least thirty weeks per
session. No student may register for the work of the first term after October
15, nor for that of the second term after January 10—nor is registration
in absentia permissible.

When Students May Enter.—It is highly desirable that students of any
year, and particularly those of the first year, should enter at the beginning
of the session. Where this is impossible students may register at the beginning
of the second term, but not later, save in exceptional cases. In case of
such late entrance the student's chief handicap (often a serious one) will be
lack of familiarity with preceding courses, on some of which his own work
may be based. Entrance at the beginning of the later term, therefore, is not
advised, but only permitted. Where the student has thus entered in a later
term, he may not make up the work of the earlier term except by returning
for such portion of a fourth year as may be necessary to complete his full
three years of attendance.

Fees and Expenses.—The necessary expenses of a student in the Law
School may be estimated at $700 per session of nine months. This minimum
estimate includes all University and tuition fees, board, lodging, laundry
and books. An average estimate would be $900 to $1,000 per session, reckoning
living expenses at a somewhat higher figure. The University fee applicable
to all law students (including those from Virginia) is $60; and the
tuition fee for residents of Virginia is $175, for non-residents, $195; an athletic
fee of $15 applies to all students. The total fees, therefore, for Virginia students
are $250, and for the non-Virginians $270.

Payment of Fees.—Fees are payable one-third upon registration; one-third
at the opening of the second term; and the remainder at the opening
of the third term. Failure to meet these payments will lead to suspension
of all University privileges. (See Regulation 2, post page 341.)

Registration as Virginia Student.—In order to be considered a Virginia
student, it is necessary that the applicant's parents be domiciled in the State
if he be under twenty-one years of age; or if he has attained his majority,
that he himself be domiciled in said State; and that either his parents or the
applicant for admission shall have been bona fide taxpayers in the State of
Virginia for at least two years prior to said application.

Three Years' Course.—The course of study embraces three years of thirty-seven
weeks each, exclusive of holidays. Residence for three years, with attendance
of at least thirty weeks a year, exclusive of holidays, is essential to
graduation.

Plan of Instruction.—In many of the courses instruction is through textbooks
and lectures, supplemented in some instances by cases, while in other
courses the case-book is used exclusively—each professor having full liberty
of adopting his own methods.

The daily oral quiz has long been a marked and, as experience has proved,
a valuable feature of the system of instruction. This oral quiz is supplemented
by frequent written tests, the results of which are carefully recorded, and, in
the professor's discretion, are considered in estimating the final grade of the
student.

Practical Work.—In the procedural courses, in Forensic Debating, and in
Legal Bibliography and Brief Making, special stress is laid upon practical work.
In the course on Legal Bibliography and Brief Making, an intimate acquaintance
with law books and skill in their use are secured by lectures and demonstrations
three times a week during the first term of the first year, accompanied by the
assignment of practical work in the library, on which numerous oral and written
tests are held; and in the third year briefs on assigned topics and according to
rigorous standards are required. Much practical work is done in the headnoting
of cases on scientific principles.

Membership in the Law Clubs is optional, but students are strongly advised to
participate in this work as it affords training in the use of the library, in the
preparation of briefs, and in the presentation of oral argument.

Required for Graduation.—The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) is
conferred upon such students as have satisfied the entrance requirements;
have attended three full sessions of the Law School; have successfully passed
the required examinations, with satisfactory performance of assigned practical
work, and have maintained a satisfactory record for ethical conceptions
and honorable conduct such as should characterize a prospective member
of the legal profession.

More specifically, the candidate for graduation must have completed all
the obligatory courses (see Outline of Courses, infra), and at least 18 term-hours
of the elective courses.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Suggestions as to Preliminary Education.—Prospective law students, and
their parents or guardians, are admonished that the law is peculiarly an intellectual

profession, and for its successful prosecution, whether in a law
school or in the broader fields of professional life, demands a well-trained
mind. If it be true that untrained recruits, in rare instances, under diligent
and persistent effort, develop into successful practitioners after entrance upon
the practice, such exceptional cases but serve to illustrate the rule that out
of a given number of candidates entering upon the study of law, those with
sound preliminary training will have incomparably the advantage, while those
without such training are likely never to rise above mediocrity in their profession.

The experience of all law teachers is that the standing and progress of
law students may, in general, be measured by their academic preparation.
Moreover, sound academic training tends to develop and to refine the ethical
sense so necessary to an honorable career at the bar. It is this consideration
that has been, in large measure, the motive of the Association of American
Law Schools, and of the national and State bar associations of America, to
stress, as these have been doing for some years, the need of a higher educational
standard for students proposing to enter upon the study of the law.
Students are therefore urged not to begin their legal studies before completion
of an academic course approximating that required for a baccalaureate
degree. So high a standard, however, is not as yet exacted as a condition of
entrance into the Law School. These conditions are shown in the following
sections.

1. Regular Students.—Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws
must have attained the age of nineteen years (counting to the nearest birthday)
before entering the department, must produce a certificate of good
character from the school or college last attended, or from other satisfactory
source, and must conform to the general requirements following:

Entrance Credits.—In addition to the completion of an approved high
school course of four years, or its equivalent, the candidate must present evidence
that for at least two years he has pursued, as a resident, in a standard college,
courses acceptable toward a baccalaureate degree, of which he must have
successfully completed at least 30 session-hours, or 60 semester-hours.

A session-hour is one hour a week of recitation, or two hours a week of
laboratory work, through the college year.

Credit will be given for completed courses only. A completed course is
one for which the student is entitled to final credit toward a baccalaureate
degree from the institution in which the work was done, without further
pursuit of that course.

Applications for Admission.—Applications for admission must be submitted
upon forms which will be supplied by the Dean of the Law School. Such applications,
with satisfactory evidence of the required entrance credits, should be
filed in the Dean's office not later than September 1.

An applicant for admission from outside Virginia may be required to supplement
his application by an interview with representatives of the University.

Courses Not Acceptable for Admission.—Notice is given that beginning
with the session of 1932-1933, courses in Art, Music, Education, Physical

Training or Military Training will not be acceptable for admission to the Law
School.

Recommended Pre-Law Courses.—The following subjects are recommended
as desirable pre-law courses: English, Latin, a Modern Foreign
Language, History, a Natural Science, Mathematics, Political Science, Accounting,
Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, and Public Speaking.

Evidence of the Required High School and College Work.—Evidence of
the required entrance credits must be in the form of a certificate, properly
authenticated by the Registrar or other authorized official of the institution
at which the college work was done. Such certificate must indicate, in addition
to the high school units offered for admission, the college courses completed,
the grades received, the time devoted to each course, and the credit,
in session- or semester-hours, at which each such course is valued toward a
baccalaureate degree.

No Conditioned Students.—Candidates for admission who have not completed
the required 30 session-hours will not be admitted with the privilege
of making up the deficiency.

No Advanced Standing.—No advanced standing or other credit is given
for attendance at another law school, nor for time spent in private reading.
The candidate for graduation must spend three years in residence, pursue
all required courses in the curriculum, and pass all regular examinations
therein.[1]

Admission of Women.—With the beginning of the session of 1920-1921,
women were admitted to the Law School for the first time. The conditions
of their admission are the same as in the case of male applicants.

2. Special Students.—A limited number of applicants who are at least 23
years old and who present proper evidence of good character and of needful
maturity and training, though unable to fulfil the foregoing entrance
requirements, may, by special action of the Law Faculty, and only in exceptional
cases, be admitted as special students, and not as candidates for the
degree.[2]

The applicant for admission as a special student is required to make
written application to the Dean of the Law School, on a blank furnished
for the purpose, with detailed information as to his age, general habits, his
educational and business experience, and his general fitness to undertake the
study of law, with a statement of reasons why he was unable to qualify as
a regular student. Such application, together with such testimonials as may
be required, must be filed with the Dean not later than September 1 of the
year in which the applicant desires to enter.

Every such applicant for admission as a special student must (if required)
pass a satisfactory examination, to be held at the University during the
registration days of the session. The examination, which will be conducted
by a committee of the Law Faculty, may include the subjects of English,
American and English History, and Civil Government.

SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE LAW SCHOOL

The Louis Bennett Scholarship, with a yearly income of $250. Founded
in 1920 by Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett in memory of her husband, Hon.
Louis Bennett, '71, of Weston, W. Va. The holder must be a deserving
young man, preference being given to students from West Virginia. In
case there are no qualified applicants from West Virginia the award is made
to a student from Virginia.

The Virginia Law Review Scholarship, with an income of $200. Founded
in 1914. Annually awarded to the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.

The William E. Homes Scholarship, with a yearly income of $60.
Founded in 1920 upon the bequest of Peter P. Homes, '13, in honor of his
father, Judge William E. Homes, '69, of Boydton, Virginia. Annually
awarded to the Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review.

The Daniel Harmon Scholarship, entitling the holder to the remission
of the tuition and University fees. Founded in 1912 "in consideration of
the distinguished service rendered by Daniel Harmon, '82, as a member of
the Board of Visitors." The holder must be "a young Virginian of ability,
character, and need."

A number of duPont Scholarships are available to students in the Department
of Law. These scholarships are awarded to incoming students as
well as to other students in the Department of Law. The awards will be
made on the basis of character, scholarship and need. The amount of the
award is subject to the discretion of the Law Faculty at the time the award
is made, the normal amount being $200.

For further information with regard to scholarships see the General
Catalogue, or apply to the Office of the Dean of the Department of Law.

The Samuel Baker Woods, Jr., Scholarship, with a yearly income of $500.
Established in 1930 by Forrest J. Hyde, Jr., '19, of New York City, as a memorial
to the late Samuel Baker Woods, Jr., '08, of Charlottesville, Virginia. Under
the terms of the donation the award is made at the close of each session to the
law student who is a candidate for graduation the following year, and whose
scholarship, character, personality, activities in the affairs of the Law School,
and promise of efficiency, have, in the opinion of the Law Faculty, entitled him
to special recognition above his fellows.

The Charles Minor Blackford Prize was established through the liberality
of the late Mrs. Susan Colston Blackford, of Lynchburg, Va., in memory
of her husband, the late Charles Minor Blackford, a distinguished alumnus
of the Law School. The prize consists of $50 in cash, and is awarded each
year to a student of the Law School for the best essay on some legal or
sociological subjects.

THE WILLIAM H. WHITE LECTURE FOUNDATION

This Foundation was established in 1922 by Mrs. Emma Gray White,
widow, Mrs. Emma Gray Trigg, daughter, and W. H. Landon White and
William H. White, Jr., sons, of the late William H. White, a distinguished
alumnus and for many years a Visitor of the University. The conditions
require that the income be used in securing each session the delivery before
the Law School of a series of lectures, preferably not less than three in
number, by a jurist or publicist, especially distinguished in some branch of
jurisprudence, domestic, international, or foreign; and that the lecturer present
some fresh or unfamiliar aspect of his subject. Each series of lectures shall
possess such unity that they may be published in book form; and the copyright
thereof shall vest in the Foundation.

OUTLINE OF COURSES

The table of courses and lecture schedule, as outlined below, contemplate
an average of fourteen lecture periods (of one hour each) per week.

Written examinations are held at the close of each term.

CONDENSED TABLE OF COURSES FOR THE SESSION 1931-1932
(Subject to Alteration)

                                                                     

FIRST YEAR		SECOND YEAR		THIRD YEAR
First Term—September 21 to December 12—12 Weeks.[3]
	Periods per week		Periods per week		Periods per week
Study of Cases	3	[4] Criminal Procedure	2	Equity Procedure	2
Legal Bibliography		Professor Nash		Professor Lile
Professor Lile		Real Property I	4	Trusts	4
Contracts I	4	Professor Ribble		[5] Creditors' Rights	3
Professor Nash		Equity Jurisprudence	4	Professor Glenn
Property I	3	Professor Lile		Legal History	3
Torts I	4	Code Pleading[6]	3	Professor Dobie
Professor Buckler		Professor Dobie		[7] Public Corporations (3)	2
		[8] Partnership	3	Professor Ribble
		Professor Eager		[9] Bankruptcy	3
				Professor Eager
Second Term—January 4 to March 19—11 Weeks.[10]
Contracts II	4	Real Property II	4	Conflict of Laws I	3
Professor Nash		Professor Ribble		Professor Nash
Property II	3	Wills	3	Federal Procedure	3
Torts II	4	Professor Dobie		Professor Dobie
Professor Buckler		[11] Equitable Relief against Torts	3	[12] Public Utilities	4
Persons	4	Private Corporations	6	Professor Ribble
Professor Eager		Professor Glenn		[13] Admiralty	3
				Professor Eager
				Negotiable Paper	3
				Professor Lile
Third Term—March 28 to June 4—10 Weeks.[14]
Agency	4	Constitutional Law	6	Brief Making	1
Professor Eager		Professor Ribble		Legal Ethics	3
Criminal Law	4	Civil Procedure	4	Professor Lile
Criminal Law Pleading	3	Virginia Procedure[15]	3	Evidence	6
Professor Buckler		Professor Nash		Professor Glenn
Sales	4	[16] Insurance	3	[17] Taxation	4
Professor Dobie		Professor Eager		Professor Dobie
				Conflict of Laws II	2
				Professor Nash

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES
(Subject to such alterations as the Faculty may deem necessary.)

                                                                       

FIRST TERM
Hours	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:30 to 10:30	Torts I		Torts I		Torts I	Torts I
	Code Pleading	Code Pleading	Code Pleading	Criminal Procedure	Criminal Procedure
	Equity Procedure		Equity Procedure	Public Corporations	Public Corporations
10:30 to 11:30		Legal Bibliography		Legal Bibliography		Legal Bibliography
			Real Property I	Real Property I	Real Property I
	Trusts	Trusts	Trusts	Trusts
11:30 to 12:30	Property I		Property I		Property I
	Partnership		Partnership		Partnership	Real Property I
		Bankruptcy		Bankruptcy		Bankruptcy
12:30 to 1:30		Contracts I	Contracts I	Contracts I	Contracts I
	Equity Jurisprudence	Equity Jurisprudence	Equity Jurisprudence	Equity Jurisprudence
	Legal History	Legal History	Legal History	Creditors' Rights	Creditors' Rights	Creditors' Rights
SECOND TERM
9:30 to 10:30	Contracts II	Contracts II	Contracts II	Contracts II
	Real Property II	Real Property II	Real Property II	Real Property II
	Federal Procedure	Federal Procedure	Federal Procedure	Admiralty	Admiralty	Admiralty
10:30 to 11:30	Wills	Wills	Wills	Property II	Property II	Property II
				Equitable Relief	Equitable Relief	Equitable Relief
11:30 to 12:30		Persons	Persons		Persons	Persons
	Negotiable Paper	Negotiable Paper	Negotiable Paper	Conflict of Laws I	Conflict of Laws I	Conflict of Laws I
12:30 to 1:30	Torts II	Torts II	Torts II	Torts II
	Private Corporations	Private Corporations	Private Corporations	Private Corporations	Private Corporations	Private Corporations
	Public Utilities	Public Utilities	Public Utilities	Public Utilities
THIRD TERM
9:30 to 10:30			Criminal Law	Criminal Law	Criminal Law	Criminal Law
	Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law
	Taxation	Taxation	Taxation	Taxation	Conflict of Laws II	Conflict of Laws II
10:30 to 11:30	Agency	Agency	Agency	Agency
		Legal Ethics	Legal Ethics	Legal Ethics	Brief-Making
11:30 to 12:30	Common Law Pleading	Common Law Pleading	Common Law Pleading	Insurance	Insurance	Insurance
	Virginia Procedure	Virginia Procedure	Virginia Procedure
12:30 to 1:30		Sales		Sales	Sales	Sales
			Civil Procedure	Civil Procedure	Civil Procedure	Civil Procedure
	Evidence	Evidence	Evidence	Evidence	Evidence	Evidence

GENERAL REGULATIONS

1. Registration Generally.—Students are required to register in advance at
the office of (1) The Dean of the Law School; (2) The Bursar; and (3) The
University Registrar, for every course taken. Registration is not complete until
fees have been paid or proper arrangement for payment made with the Bursar.

2. Suspension for Non-payment of Fees.—A student who is in default
in the payment of fees and has so remained for fifteen days will be suspended,
and deprived of all privileges of the Law School, until his financial relations
with the University have been arranged satisfactorily with the Bursar.

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 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 may be permitted to return, 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 examination grade
of 80 per cent. will place such student on probation for the remainder of the
session, and the student and his parent or guardian will be so notified. Unless

marked 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 50 per cent. of the
lectures thereon have been delivered. See requirements for Graduation,
ante, p. 334.

11. Minimum for Which Students May Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than a full
year's work as scheduled.

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.

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. Absence from Lectures.—A careful record is kept of the absences
from lectures and omission of prescribed work. Such absences, unexcused,
render the student liable to be disciplined and detract from his class or
examination grade.

16. "Dean's List."—An average examination grade of 90 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. The Dean may revoke the privilege if abused.

17. 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.

18. Special Examinations. (Subject to Regulation 21 below.)—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.

19. Re-Examinations.—No re-examinations are granted, except under
conditions stated in Regulations 12 and 20.

20. Third Year Students—Incomplete Work.—A candidate for the degree
who at the end of 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. The Same.—Students in the category mentioned in the foregoing
regulation who return for a regular examination as mentioned, and who reside
250 miles from the University, may be granted the privilege of standing
one or more special examinations in incompleted courses scheduled for a
later term. The purpose of this provision is to avoid the expense of several
return trips.

22. Examinations in absentia.—Students entitled to one or more examinations
under Regulation 20, and who reside more than 300 miles from the
University, may, in the discretion of the Dean and of the professor or professors
in charge, be allowed the privilege of standing such examination or
examinations in absentia under approved supervision.

23. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the last three preceding regulations 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, are
required to 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,
under Regulation 18.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. Honor System.—All written tests and examinations are conducted
under the Honor System.