REGISTRATION: You must register for Constitutional Law (4 credits) and Property-Section(4) (4 credits) for a total of 8 credits for the semester. You may not drop below nor go above this eight (8) credit requirement.

Students may use the Rutgers TouchTone or the Website Registration System to register for the Fall 2007 semester. You may register by using either of these systems through July 31, 2007.

You will find instructions for registering using an automated telephone system in the links to the left.  You should download, print and complete a touch tone registration worksheet before attempting to use this system. Be prepared with the Registration Index Numbers--your time will be limited. Also, be especially careful when entering the Registration Index Number as an incorrect number could result in an incorrect registration or no registration at all.

1. The telephone numbers for Rutgers Touch-Tone Registration are (973) 353-1999; (732) 445-1999;
or (856) 225-1999.

2. Enter the semester code which is 9 for the Fall.

3. Enter your 9-digit ID number (your RUID number).

4. Enter your Personal Access Code (PAC), which is the month and day of your birth to equal 4 digits.

5. Enter the Action Code which is 2.

6. The system will give you all further instructions.

If the system tells you that you need a special Permission Number, you must see Dean Garbaccio to obtain the number.

TERM BILL: The term bill for the Fall 2007 semester for all law students is due on the date marked on the bill. A pre-printed term bill and instructions for completing it will be sent to you under separate cover from New Brunswick. The term bill will reflect the charges you must pay for the Fall semester.  (You are billed for 8 credits.)

Please read the instructions carefully.  EACH STUDENT, INCLUDING A STUDENT ON FINANCIAL AID OR SCHOLARSHIP, IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A TERM BILL. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT THE TERM BILL WITH PROPER PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE, YOU WILL BE LIABLE FOR A $125.00 LATE PAYMENT FEE AND YOUR REGISTRATION MAY BE CANCELLED.

It is the student's responsibility to obtain, complete and return the term bill on time. If you do not receive a term bill by the first week of August or have any questions concerning the bill, please contact the Rutgers-Newark Business Office, Student Services Building, 3rd floor, Newark, New Jersey (973) 353-5423.

RESIDENCY STATUS FOR TUITION PURPOSES:

New Students: Residency status for newly admitted students is determined by the admissions office at the time of admission. Appeals made by students to such decisions should be sent to the Law School Director of Admissions. If still unresolved, further appeal should be forwarded to the associate vice president for student services for final adjudication.

Currently Enrolled Students: Residency status for enrolled students is determined by the area registrars. Students who are seeking a change in their official place of domicile from out-of-state residency to New Jersey residency must file a Residence Analysis Form with the Newark Registrar's Office no later than the last week of the term for which the change of residency for in-state tuition payment is sought. If a student files the form after the last week of that term, the student forfeits the right to a residency assessment for that term. The Residence Analysis Form may be obtained from the Law School Admissions Office by the students who are in their initial term and from the Newark Registrar's Office thereafter.

Appeals made by students from the area registrar's decision should be directed to the university registrar. If still unresolved, further appeal should be forwarded to the associate vice president for student services for final adjudication.

FULL-TIME VS. PART-TIME STATUS FOR TUITION, FINANCIAL AID AND STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE:

a. Full-time tuition and fees will be charged by the University to a student who registers for 12 or more credits for the semester. Full-time students who drop to 11 or fewer credits after the first 10 days of classes will not receive a refund of tuition and fees for the credits dropped.

b. Part-time tuition and fees will be charged by the University to any student who registers for 11 or fewer credits for the semester. Part-time students who drop credits after the first 10 days of classes will not receive a refund of tuition and fees for the credits dropped.

c. Financial Aid: The main components to Graduate Financial Aid at Rutgers Law School are loans, federal work-study, and scholarships and grants. To be eligible for any need-based financial aid, a student must have a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or FAFSA Renewal on file with the Department of Education. (FAFSA is a need-analysis tool used by the Dept. of Education and the university to determine eligibility for available programs.)

Rutgers participates in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Under this program, all law students (day & evening) are eligible to borrow up to a maximum of $l8,500/year in Direct Federal Stafford Loans, subject to their cost of attendance and need. These loans are awarded in some combination of subsidized and/or unsubsidized loans. Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans, as well as the Federal Perkins Loans, Federal Work-Study Funds, NJ State Grants, and EOF Grants are need-based. Additional educational loans are available from governmental and private sources to help bridge the gap between the federal loan programs and the student's cost of attendance.

Rutgers also offers some merit-based and need-based institutional scholarships. All first year students are automatically considered for these scholarships by virtue of applying and being admitted to the law school. All returning students are considered for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year scholarship awards by completing and returning the scholarship application handed out at the end of the Spring term. Students should also investigate the availability of private sources of funding, such as awards offered by civic, social or religious organizations.

Contact the law school Financial Aid Office, Room 228, (973) 353-1702, for further information regarding any of the above programs. Students can also contact the main University Financial Aid Office, Blumenthal Hall, 249 University Avenue, 3rd floor, (973) 353-5151, with any financial aid questions or problems.

d. Student Health Service and Insurance: Only full-time students (those registering for 12 or more credits and thus paying a higher student fee) are (1) eligible to use the Student Health Center and(2) covered by the University's basic accident and sickness insurance plan. Part-time students may purchase both these services for a per semester charge. There are two policies of major medical insurance which may be purchased for an additional charge per semester. Further information may be obtained from Dean Rothman or the Student Health Services, Blumenthal Hall, in mid-August when final rates have been set.

STUDENTS WITH FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS:

Transcripts - In accordance with university procedures, no student or former student may obtain a transcript of his/her academic record if he/she is under any financial obligation to the university.

Diplomas - Diplomas will be withheld from any student who is under any financial obligation to the university.

Registration - A student's registration will be canceled prior to the be beginning of a semester if he/she has any single or combination of financial obligations that total $100.

REQUIRED COURSES: A student in any of the following categories must take the courses when next given. A student who:

a. has received a grade of "F" (Unsatisfactory without credit) in a required course;

b. did not take a required course when it was first offered to his/her class (as when the student was out-of-residence during that semester);

c. has been required by the Committee on Scholastic Standing to repeat a course;

d. must take a required course following transfer from another law school;

e. transferred from part-time to full-time status or vice versa before completion of the required curriculum.

The required courses are: Contracts, Property, Torts, Legal Research and Writing I and II, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, the first year required elective course and a legal ethics course.

Permission to defer taking a required course when it is next given may be granted only by Dean Frances Bouchoux. It is the student's obligation to be sure that all requirements of this paragraph are met.

Only certain sections of required first-year courses are open to upperclass students. You must secure prior permission to register for these courses. Please call Dean Garbaccio (973) 353-5396 to find out the section, course and registration numbers of these courses.

Students who delay complying with these requirements may find themselves closed out of their preferred sections of upperclass and required courses. Students who do not register for a required course which they must complete are subject to being automatically assigned to a section and dropped from one of their elective courses, if need be.

MANDATORY COURSE IN LEGAL ETHICS: Any student who was admitted to the law school beginning with the Fall 2000 semester, or thereafter, will be required to successfully complete a one-semester course in legal ethics in order to graduate. Either of the following courses satisfies the requirement: Legal Profession or Professional Responsibility.

GRADUATION WRITING REQUIREMENT: All student must meet the graduation writing requirement. This requirement can be met in any of the following ways:

1. Completion of a paper in courses or seminars designated as meeting the graduation writing requirement.

2. Independent Research. You may not use Judicial Externships, Research Assistants, or Teaching Assistants to meet the graduation writing requirement.

3. Publishable notes submitted to the Rutgers Law Review, Computer and Technology Journal, the Race and Law Review, The Rutgers Law Record or the Women’s Rights Law Reporter.

4. Completion of the Appellate Advocacy course.

5. A competition brief for an intramural or interscholastic competition.

6. Completion in a semester in any Rutgers Law School clinic.

All work must be in the form of an analytical piece of writing. The paper must be at least 25 double-spaced typed pages in length and must be completed no later than ONE SEMESTER PRIOR TO GRADUATION (unless prior permission to complete the requirement during the last semester is obtained from Dean Rothman). For Appellate Advocacy and clinics, no separate paper need be written, but the academic requirements of the individual course or clinics must be met.

OPTING: In October 2000 the faculty passed the following revision to the grading option system effective with students who matriculate in the law school in the Fall 2000 semester or thereafter:

Students may not opt for Grading System II (Pass/D/F):

a. for any first-year required course (Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure or Legal Research and Writing I & II) or any clinic.

b. more than once per academic time period (semester or summer session), and they may not opt for more than a total of 12 credits over their entire law school career. Enterprises that are graded on a Pass/Fail basis (e.g. journal participation credits, teaching assistant, moot court, etc.) do not count toward this limitation.

Opting for a grading system for the Fall 2006 semester must take place during the first 21 days of the semester. Since school begins on Monday, August 21, 2006, the last day to opt will be Tuesday, September 11^th (Saturdays and Sundays are included in the 21 days). All students are expected to register their choice for a grading system by 4:00 p.m. on September 11th. No exceptions to this rule will be granted. You need to opt only if you wish to be graded under System II (Pass-D and F). If you do not register a choice, you will automatically be graded under System I (A, B, C, D, and F). The opting forms are available after the first week of the new semester in Room 170. If you opt for Pass-D, and F, any letter grade(s) received in the course(s) will never be released to anyone for any reason.

ENROLLING IN EVENING CLASSES: Upperclass day students may enroll in evening courses on a space-available basis. Evening students have first preference on all evening courses. Evening students may enroll in day school courses but will be on an equal basis with upperclass day students.

ATTENDANCE IN CLASSES: Regular class attendance is required in all classes. Every instructor shall deny students whose unexcused absences exceed 20% of the total number of class sessions the opportunity to sit for their final examination or to submit a final term paper pursuant to the Law School Faculty's attendance policy.

Since a student in a first-year required course may not withdraw from the course, a student who is dismissed from a class for non-attendance by the instructor for non-attendance will have a grade of "F" entered, absent special action of the Committee on Scholastic Standing.

EXAMINATION DEFERMENTS: Students are expected, whenever possible, to anticipate examination schedule problems at the time of registration. The examination schedule is published with registration materials for this purpose, and examination deferrals will not be granted because the student has too many examinations scheduled on consecutive days. For similar reasons, students who anticipate that medical or personal problems will interfere with a heavy examination schedule are expected to register for non-examination courses, register for a reduced or part-time load, or to withdraw from school for a semester. Deferral requests based on examination schedule problems that should have been anticipated at the time of registration will not be granted except in cases of extreme hardship. Consult Dean Andrew Rothman if you have further questions.

Students wishing to enroll in courses whose classes do not conflict but whose examinations do, may see Dean Rothman about deferring one of the exams.

INCOMPLETES FROM THE 2006-07 ACADEMIC YEAR: All work for a academic enterprise must be submitted to the instructor in final form no later than two weeks before the date when grades must be submitted to the University for recording for the semester during which the enterprise was taken. Generally, this means that work from the Spring semester cannot be submitted beyond June 1 and work from the Fall semester cannot be submitted beyond February 1. Summer work is generally due by September 1. Extensions beyond this deadlines (which will be fixed each semester and noted in the registration materials) will be granted by Dean Andrew Rothman only under the same conditions as for exams deferrals--extreme illness, religious reasons, or sudden, unforeseeable and unavoidable emergency.

Upon certification by the instructor that substantial progress has been made towards completion of the work, a short deferral will be granted. Generally, this is not more than a few days.

PRE-REGISTRATION FOR UPPERCLASS COURSES IN THE SPRING SEMESTER
There will be no formal pre-registration for the Spring 2007 semester;  however, a tentative Spring Schedule is available.  During the Spring 2008 semester, fourth-term evening students are permitted to register for upperclass courses in addition to one of the required first-year elective courses.

Students who have not completed Legal Research and Writing II may not register for any upperclass seminar, clinic or any course in which the accountability will be a paper in lieu of an examination.  Part-time program students may enroll in both day and evening courses;  in evening courses, part-time program students have a registration priority over day students, if over-enrollment occurs.  Part-time students enrolling in day courses do so on an equal basis with full-time students.

IN ORDER FOR YOUR Fall 2007 REGISTRATION TO BE COMPLETE YOU MUST RETURN THE FOLLOWING MATERIALS TO DEAN GARBACCIO, ROOM 170, BY 4:00 P.M. on July 31, 2007.

1. Sign-In Registration Form
2. Full-time/Part-time Status Form

If you fail to register by using the Touch Tone or Web Registration System or submit any of the above forms, you will be required to register in person.

Registration material may be mailed to the following address:
Dean Linda Garbaccio
Rutgers University School of Law
123 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102

PLEASE NOTE: THE REGISTRATION MATERIAL IS DUE IN DEAN GARBACCIO'S OFFICE ON JULY 31, 2007.

REGISTRATION MATERIAL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY MAIL AFTER JULY 31, 2007. All registration material returned after the due date must be submitted in person.