Course Registration Manual

3. PROHIBITED PRACTICES

1.     Registration in Two Sections of One Course

You CANNOT register in two sections of a course, UNLESS the course is Law 589 (Specialized Legal Topics) or 599 (Seminars on Legal Topics).

With the approval of the Vice Dean, you may register in more than one section of Law 486 (Jurisprudence) or Law 496 (Legal History) [each section is, in effect, a separate course].

[NOTE re: Jurisprudence and Legal History: The LFC Policy Manual provides that “The Vice Dean is empowered to permit students to take up to three additional sections of Jurisprudence or Legal History during their upper years on being satisfied that the content of such additional sections are substantively different from one another.”]

If it is found that a student is registered in two sections of the same course, he or she is notified that he or she must choose which section he/she wishes to retain; the other section must be dropped. If the student fails to drop a section by the specified date, the Faculty will delete one of the sections from the student’s registration.

2.     Course Exchanges between Students

You are strongly urged to avoid course “exchanges” – i.e. one student registers in course A, while another registers in course B: each student then attempts to drop his or her own course and register in the friend’s dropped course. This “trick” may not work, leaving at least one or both students without a desired course. The Faculty will not reverse the transaction or provide relief to a student who has lost his or her part of the bargain.

3.     Conflicting Class Times

You cannot register in courses if the times conflict - i.e. you cannot be registered in two different courses that occupy the same period of time. This rule applies even if the temporal overlap is in the order of 20 or 30 minutes.

4.     Conflicting Examination Times

The onus is on the student to prevent examination conflicts. If an examination conflict does occur, one of the conflicting courses must be dropped and no accommodation for examinations will be made. An unresolved examination conflict may result in an unexcused absence from an examination, a failing grade as a result, with either the possibility of a re-examination and/or being required to withdraw.