Fall 2008 Registration

Dates -- Instructions & Policies -- Non-Piperline Registration -- Miscellanea -- Bar Courses -- Legal Perspectives Courses -- Skills Courses

REGISTRATION PRIORITY
Priority for registration is determined by class and program. For HUSL JD students, class is determined by the time elapsed since matriculation. Class for a first year student is L1, for a second year L2, for a third year L3, and L4 for all others. A student’s class is rolled to the next class after each academic year. Visiting away does not toll rolling; a student’s leave of absence does. HUSL JD students are enrolled in one of two programs: weekday or weekend. Class and program information is available via Piperline (link path: Student Services, Student Records, View Student Information). Priority for online registration will be as follows:

Monday, April 21st, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L4 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
L4 Weekend Students

Tuesday, April 22nd, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L3 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
L3 Weekend Students
LLM Students

Wednesday, April 23rd, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)

Thursday, April 24th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekend Students

Friday, April 25th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
All other students and weekend classes for weekday students

Students enrolled in the DRI certificate program may receive registration priority in the core courses listed below.
• Arbitration
• Mediation
Such registration priority is not a guarantee of enrollment in any particular course, nor does it afford priority for certificate electives or non-DRI courses. Forms to request registration priority for DRI courses are available from the Office of the Registrar. Forms must be submitted to the DRI office for approval by 4 p.m. April 16th. Students with approved forms will be registered, space permitting, according to registration priority (class, program, time of submission) by the Office of the Registrar.

INSTRUCTIONS AND POLICIES
Students must register via Piperline. In-person registration is available by appointment only. Please contact the Office of the Registrar to set up an appointment. The following information will help you with the registration process. Please read it carefully.

PIPERLINE
Piperline is a secure system that requires user authentication. Know your user ID (which is your Hamline ID number starting with a 9 or your social security number, either one works) and PIN. Log in to Piperline before the registration period begins. Familiarize yourself with the menus and navigation. Piperline has many features; don’t wait until the first day of registration to acquaint yourself with it. You may log in to Piperline from any hamline.edu page (link path: Logins, Piperline, Login to secure area).

HOLDS
Check Piperline for any holds, status, or condition that may prevent you from registering (link path: Student Services, Registration, Check your Registration Status). A hold can be removed only by the department that set it. Please contact the department listed.

PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE
Piperline offers several views allowing you to see course offering information in various formats. You may view alphabetical lists, course description lists, lists by faculty and a date/room/time grid by selecting the appropriate display options in the Hamline Class Schedule screen from any hamline.edu page (link path: Logins, Piperline, Class Schedule, select term for School of Law courses or simply click here). To view in a different format or sort option, use the drop down lists in the upper left. The Table view displays summary information about each course. The List view lists the courses with descriptions, and RoomGrid displays a chart of classes and meeting times.
Check the course descriptions for each section in which you will seek to enroll and verify that you have met the prerequisites. The system does not always read transfer credits and course substitutions as pre-requisites. Please contact the Office of the Registrar prior to registration if you are using course substitutions or transfer credits to meet prerequisites.

PIPERLINE REGISTRATION
• You may log in to Piperline from any hamline.edu page (link path: Logins, Piperline, Login to secure area)
• Enter your user ID
• Enter your Piperline PIN. If you forgot your PIN, click on the Forgot PIN button. You will be prompted to answer your security question. If you have forgotten that as well, please send an email using your Hamline University issued email account to lawregistrar@hamline.edu asking for the PIN to be reset.
• The Registration screen (link path: Student Services, Registration) offers options to add/drop, look up section information, view your current schedule and check your registration status. You should verify and print your schedule before ending your registration session.

SUCCESSFUL PIPERLINE REGISTRATION
Courses for which you are successfully registered will have two identifiers in the registration grid:
• Under the Status header, Web Registered and the date of registration will appear.
• Under the Action header, the notation None will appear, indicating no action needs to be taken.
If the courses you are trying to register for do not appear on the grid, click the Submit Registration button to process your registration.

ERRORS
A symbol indicates that a registration error has occurred. Refer to the text under the Status header in the registration grid to determine the specific error. The Action pull down list allows you to take corrective action to eliminate the error condition. Below are some errors you may encounter and the actions required to resolve them:

WAIT LIST
If a section is full, you may put yourself on the wait list and register for something else. You may be on as many wait lists as you wish. However, wait listing yourself for a section does NOT mean that you are registered in that section. You will be notified via email no later than April 28th if you become eligible to enroll from the first round of wait list processing. Notices will be sent to Hamline University-issued email accounts only. Please click here for details and the complete wait list processing schedule (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s home page: Term Information, 2008 Fall, Wait List Instructions).

REGISTRATION HELP
If you need assistance with the registration process, contact the Office of the Registrar during office hours at 651-523-2468 or anytime by email at lawregistrar@hamline.edu.

Non-Piperline Registration

DISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE CERTIFICATES
For information regarding the Dispute Resolution Institute certificates please see the DRI website.

JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM
For information regarding the MFA, MANM, MAPA, MBA, and MLIS dual degree programs, please click here.

HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE
For information regarding the Health Law Institute certificate programs, please see the HLI website.

INDEPENDENT STUDY FORM
This form must be completed, signed by a full-time faculty member and returned to the Office of the Registrar. The form is available from the Office of the Registrar and online (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s home page: Forms Menu, Independent Study Registration).

OVERLOAD/UNDERLOAD FORM
Approval from the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs is required to register for fewer than eight or more than sixteen credits in the fall semester. The Overload/Underload Status Request form is available from the Office of the Registrar and online (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s main page: Forms Menu, Overload/Underload Status Request). Once completed, the form must be returned to the Office of the Registrar for submission to the Dean.

EXTENDED PRACTICUM
If you are interested in an extended practicum, please see Professor Cathy Deal, Practicum Director, or Vickie Jauert, Program Admistrator, to discuss your proposed placement. You may pick up an Extended Practicum Registration form in the Office of the Registrar.

Extended Practicums provide a more extensive externship experience, allowing for 6-12 credits, depending on the nature of the placement. Registration requires advance approval by the Practicum Program Director who makes the final decision regarding the appropriate placement and corresponding credits. Enrollment is very limited and highly selective, and placements may not be available every academic year. The extended practicum may include single semester or year-long placements. Each extended practicum includes a two-credit classroom component and fieldwork equal to a minimum of 50 hours for every credit awarded (beyond the classroom component).

The extended practicum runs 6-12 credits (including the 2-credit class component). For students taking a 12-credit practicum, they can split the experience between two consecutive semesters, or between 1 semester and the summer term (6 credits each). We do not otherwise split credits (i.e., 5 credits in the fall, and 3 credits in the spring, etc.), and we do not arrange 12-credit practicums to extend over more than two semesters/terms.

For the extended practicum, the field experience must equal at least 50 hours for each credit beyond the 2-credit class component. The field hours break down as follows:

6-credit Extended Practicum: 200 hours (4 X 50)
7-credit Extended Practicum: 250 hours
8-credit Extended Practicum: 300 hours
9-credit Extended Practicum: 350 hours
10-credit Extended Practicum: 400 hours
11-credit Extended Practicum: 450 hours
12-credit Extended Practicum: 500 hours (or 250 hours per semester over two consecutive semesters)

Practicum students must complete work begun even if this would require more than the minimum number of hours. Hamline University School of Law requires that all hours of work, as well as all other program requirements, must be completed by the last day of classes for the semester. Attorney Mentors may not vary this requirement; exceptions may be granted only by the Program Director.

FIRST YEAR COURSE REGISTRATION FOR UPPER LEVEL STUDENTS
Upper level students who need to enroll in a first year course (including FEP students, transfer students, and students who need to re-take a course) should email the Registrar with their first, second, and third schedule choices for the required class. Upper level students will be placed on a first come, first served basis while maintaining an even distribution of upper level students in the first year courses.

THIRD SEMESTER WEEKEND STUDENT REGISTRATION
First year weekend students do not take Property and Constitutional Law I until the third semester of law school. This fall, Property is on Sunday mornings, and Constitutional Law falls on Saturday mornings. Third-semester weekend students must take these classes, and the Office of the Registrar will pre-register students for them; students cannot drop these classes. As for LRW III, the course will be split; half of weekend 2Ls will take it this fall, and half will take it in the spring. Students will make the initial selection, but they must take the class one semester or the other, while maintaining relatively equal enrollment in both sections. From an academic perspective, there is no advantage or disadvantage associated with the fall vs. spring choice. Weekend 2Ls interested in the fall section should simply register for it when registration opens. The fall course has an enrollment cap of 23. If the course does not fill with voluntary registrants, additional students will be moved into the class. If you have a strong preference for the spring section, please inform the Registrar, Roberto Koch, by email. Students not enrolled in LRW III in the fall will be pre-registered for LRW III in spring 2009.

Miscellanea

CLINIC REGISTRATION
Each clinical experience requires students to consider questions of professional ethics as attorneys. Clinic experiences are three credits each. Clinics are offered fall and spring every year unless otherwise noted on the course catalog or in specific offerings.
To be eligible to register for a clinic, students:
• Must be in good standing
• Must be eligible for Certification under MN Supreme Court Rule 2 for Student Practice
• Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in Professional Responsibility or Seminar: Ethics
• Must not have completed a clinic before (unless there is space after all those students who have not completed a clinic before have been placed)

COURSE LIMITATIONS
Academic Year Limitations
You may not, within the same academic year, receive credit for participating in more than one of the following:
• Law Review
• Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy
• Journal of Law and Religion
You may not receive credit for more than one Moot Court or other Competition team within the same academic year.

Law School Career Limitations
In the course of your legal education you may not take more than:
• One Independent Study
• One Practicum or Extended Practicum (a year-long prearranged Extended Practicum counts as one)
• Four credits in Legal Drafting credits
• Five credits in Competition courses
• 12 credits in "distance education" courses
• 23 credits derived from the following types of courses:
• Field Placement
• Moot Court or other Competition
• Law Review or Journal
• Independent Study
• Course Exchange or Dual Degree Course
• Course for credit that is substantially based upon time expended outside a regularly scheduled class time at the School of Law or another ABA accredited law school. This rule does not apply to seminars, clinics which require a substantial classroom component, foreign study programs approved by HUSL or another ABA accredited law school, and courses conducted by HUSL or another ABA accredited law school in accordance with ABA standards for distance education.
You may earn credit for more than one seminar, but students who have not yet taken a seminar have registration priority for seminars.

FINAL EXAMS
Final exams will be held from Mon., Dec. 8 through Sun., Dec. 21. The exam schedule will be posted on the Office of the Registrar website (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s main page: Term Information, Fall 2008, Exam Schedule).
Exams are graded anonymously. Each term students are assigned a 4-digit midterm exam number and a 5-digit final exam number to be used for all exams during that term. These numbers are available via Piperline (link path: log in to Piperline, Student Services, Registration, Student Detail Schedule. Exam Numbers are listed below Total Credit Hours at the top of the page).

FINANCIAL AID
In order to receive financial aid, students should complete their 2008-2009 FAFSA. This can be done online at www.FAFSA.ed.gov. For more information contact Student Administrative Services at 651.523.3000.

PAYMENT AGREEMENT
Details regarding tuition, fees, and payment plans can be found at www.hamline.edu/studentaccounts.
Payment may be made in person at the Cashier's Office in the Law/Grad Building, by mail, by phone, or on the web via Piperline.

FRONT-LOADED COURSES
The following fall courses have abbreviated schedules:
• Accounting for Lawyers (1 credit) meets Thursdays, 6:00 – 7:50 p.m., Aug. 20 – Sep. 18
• Selected Topic: Telecommunications (2 credits) meets Thursdays, 6:00 – 8:40 p.m., Aug. 20 – Oct. 30
• Selected Topic: The Grand Jury Mystique (2 credits) meets Mondays, Aug. 20 – Nov. 3

GRADES
Letter grades based on a 4.0 system (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, F) are issued for all HUSL courses except those indicating a Pass/No Pass grade option in the course description.

TUITION REIMBURSEMENT
If a student officially withdraws from HUSL during the fall semester, the amount of tuition owed is calculated from the date of record of withdrawal or leave, not from the date the student ceases to attend class. If the official withdrawal takes place within the first 10 business days of class for students enrolled in the weekday program or the first two weekends for students enrolled in the weekend program, no tuition is owed. Subsequently, tuition owed will be calculated daily on an increasing scale based on the percentage of the days in the term before the official withdrawal date. The above process is also used to calculate the refund due to a student who drops from full-time (12-16 credits) to part-time status (8-11 credits). Please see the academic calendar for add/drop dates.

VA BENEFITS
Students eligible for VA benefits should contact Assistant Registrar Colleen Clish at 651.523.2424 or email.

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
Hamline University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, ethnic background, national origin, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, religion, age, or veteran status in its employment or educational opportunities.

BAR COURSES
Courses covering materials which help prepare students to take the Minnesota bar examination are usually offered twice each year. HUSL courses that teach subjects tested on the Minnesota bar exam are listed below.
• Civil Procedure I and II
• Commercial Law: Sales and Leases of Goods
• Constitutional Law I and II
• Contracts I and II
• Corporations
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure I
• Evidence
• Family Law
• Modern Real Estate Transactions
• Professional Responsibility
• Property
• Tax I: Taxation of Individuals
• Torts I and II
• Unincorporated Business Entities
• Wills and Trusts

LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
The following 2008-2009 courses meet the Legal Perspectives graduation requirement:
• Comparative Law
• Consortium Class in Equal Justice
• Employment Discrimination
• International Law
• Jurisprudence
• Law and Economics
• Legal History
• Native American Law
• Restorative Justice
• Sexual Orientation Law
• Seminar: 2nd Amendment
• Seminar: American Slavery
• Seminar: Contracts
• Seminar: Education Law
• Seminar: Gender, Childhood and the Constitution
• Seminar: Genetics
• Seminar: Lawyers & Leadership
• Seminar: National Security Law
• Seminar: Persuasion
• Seminar: Presidential Power

SKILLS COURSES
Each student must take at least two credits in Skills courses (applicable to students admitted in Fall 2006 or later). The 2008-2009 courses that apply toward the skills requirement are as follows:
• Advanced Legal Research
• Advanced Litigation Practice
• Arbitration
• Clinics
• Collective Bargaining & Labor Arbitration
• Competitions
• Dispute Resolution Practices
• Extended Practicum
• Lawyering Skills
• Legal Advocacy
• Legal Drafting
• Litigation Practice
• Mediation
• Negotiation
• Oral Advocacy
• Practicums
• Selected Topic: Health Care Compliance Skills
• Selected Topic: Multistate Performance Test Preparation
• Trial Advocacy
• Other classes or ABA-approved international programs with skills components will qualify, if pre-approved by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.