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 waitlist for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment. 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, and any student is ordinarily limited to not more than one seminar per semester.
Seminars usually meet once per week in a two-hour session.
The normal deadline for the completion of seminar papers is two weeks after the last day of final exams except instructors may allow for later deadlines. 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 October 1st of the following semester. 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.