 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1931 |  |
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
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.
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