BU School of Law Seminar Policies

• A student who fails either to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the registrar, will be automatically dropped from the seminar. Students who “wait list” for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.

• Seminars are offered in both the problem/simulation and the research and writing modes. Seminars provide students with the opportunity to work with a faculty member in a small-group format, and to polish legal research and writing skills.

• Seminars are limited in enrollment. Preference is generally given to third-year students. Seminars usually meet once per week in a two-hour session.

• Except for third-year law students in their final semester, the normal deadline for the completion of seminar papers is fourteen days after the last day of final exams unless the instructor has prescribed an earlier deadline. Except for third-year law students in their final semester, an instructor may set a submission date for Fall semester papers as late as February 1st of the following semester and for Spring semester papers, as late as the 21st day after the examination period. Third-year students in their final semester must submit papers no later than the last day of the exam period. Instructors may establish earlier submission dates. Exceptions for failure to meet an instructor’s established deadline for illness or any other compelling reasons may not be granted by individual faculty members. Such exceptions must be sought from the Academic Standards Committee pursuant to the same requirements of the Academic Regulations found in the JD Student Handbook that apply to absence from regularly scheduled examinations.

• Third-year students enrolled in second-semester seminars are cautioned that seminar requirements and the Upper-class Writing Requirement must be fulfilled by a date which allows the seminar instructor sufficient time to make a final evaluation of student papers prior to the deadline for certifying students for graduation.